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Lindsay Clancy Jurors Break Silence to Publicly Rage Against Lone Man Who Held Out Against ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict

Three jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial are publicly blaming one man for blocking their attempt at a unanimous insanity acquittal.

The women spoke Tuesday in an interview that aired on Boston’s WBTS-TV, and all three women lashed out at the male holdout.

The comments from the trio of female jurors came just days after Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in the Plymouth, Massachusetts, case that gripped the country.

The 12 jurors — nine female and three male — failed to reach a decision in the case after seven days of deliberations, Reuters noted.

Foreperson Roni Carlson fumed that the male holdout refused to change his position, despite pressure from the other 11 jurors.

“He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited,” Carlson said.

She said the juror then refused to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.

“But I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity,” Carlson claimed the man said.

Juror Paula Devlin told the outlet she viewed the still-unidentified holdout as “very arrogant” as he weighed the evidence.

“He really did not take anything that anybody said,” Devlin told WBTS.

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The jurors praised Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington as everything from “compassionate” to “funny.”

Clancy, 36, admitted killing her three children at the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023.

She strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands, but her defense team argued she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis at the time.

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She then cut herself with a knife and jumped from a second-story window, leaving her permanently paralyzed.

Her defense argued that the alleged psychosis had caused her to lose control of her actions.

Carlson said the jury was never deciding whether Clancy killed her children, as she had confessed. She said the evidence she saw showed Clancy “snapped” and that she could not have been held criminally liable for the triple murder.

Juror Kellie Farina lashed out at the prosecution’s case, which she said lacked compassion for Clancy and not the three children she killed.

“I just found it to be harsh,” Farina said. “Very, very harsh.”

Farina also slammed the holdout for having “the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”

Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry Clancy, who is in custody at a psychiatric facility for now.

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