Lindsay Clancy juror says panel saw case as chance to 'make it better for other women'

One of the 11 jurors who wanted to find Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for killing her three children said the panel viewed the case as a chance to make things "better for other women" and families — a thought process that one legal analyst is calling "problematic.""Even though we didn't know what was going on outside of our little bubble that we were in, we knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women in the future, for other families," 65-year-old Clancy juror Paula Devlin told "CBS Saturday Morning" over the weekend."You know, justice for those children is this never happening again."According to Devlin, before the 11-1 deadlock that led to a mistrial, the jury had been split eight in favor of finding her not criminally responsible, two were undecided, and the holdout and one other juror were leaning toward a guilty verdict.LONE HOLDOUT JUROR IN LINDSAY CLANCY TRIAL WAS ONLY BLACK PERSON ON THE JURY, PANELIST REVEALS: REPORTPaula Devlin arrives home in Whitman, Massachusetts, USA, Saturday, September 12, 2026.

Devlin was a juror in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy.(Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)"Devlin’s statement is problematic," said Neama Rahmani, a Los Angeles-based trial attorney and legal analyst who has been following the case.

"Jurors are supposed to decide cases solely based on the facts of that case.In the Clancy case, they were to decide whether she was criminally responsible."The jury's role is to apply the law, not to make law, he said.ACCUSED NC KILLER MOM PLANS INSANITY DEFENSE — AS RETIRED JUDGE SAYS MORE MAY FOLLOW LINDSAY CLANCY STRATEGYLindsay Clancy, charged with the murder of her three children in Duxbury in 2023, appears in Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Feb.

20, 2026.(Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)"It is not appropriate for the jurors to consider the impact of their decis...