Lone Lindsay Clancy holdout juror did not provide single piece of evidence to support his vote: fellow juror

The lone holdout juror who led Lindsay Clancy’s trial to end with a hung jury didn’t provide a “single piece of evidence” supporting his vote that she was guilty of murdering her three young children, according to a fellow juror.“There wasn’t a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was,” juror Nick Dargie told ABC News in an interview Wednesday. Dargie, 25, said the jury “ultimately sent in that note,” to Judge William Sullivan on Friday advising of their deadlocked position following 38 hours of deliberations because the holdout juror wasn’t able to provide a shred of evidence to support his opposing stance.

That note ultimately prompted Sullivan to declare a mistrial after seven days of deliberations and five weeks of testimony. “Otherwise, like there’s nothing wrong with somebody having a completely opposite opinion … that would be a hung jury.That, like that, is our justice system,” Dargie added. Dargie, who was one of only three male jurors on the 12-person panel, said he came into the trial blind as he was serving in the military when Clancy strangled her three children — Dawson, 3, Cora, 5, and Callan, 8 months — with exercise bands at their Duxbury, Mass.

home on Jan.24, 2023. Throughout the grueling week-long deliberations, he said he asked the holdout juror to provide evidence that supported his stubborn position — but claimed he never did. “There was several times I would ask him to show us evidence or, you know, describe a witness testimony that helped to prove what he was saying, and … he couldn’t,” Dargie, the fifth juror to speak out, told the outlet. A total of three notes were sent to the judge throughout the deliberations detailing the panel’s deadlocked 11-1 position.From the start of deliberations, a majority of the panel — which was composed of nine women and three men — attempted to convince the holdout juror to change his vote,...