Holdout Lindsay Clancy juror will not be giving interviews, his attorney says
The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial will not be giving interviews or speaking out on what happened in the Massachusetts courtroom during the dayslong deliberations before a judge declared a mistrial earlier this month, according to a statement from his lawyer.“While I appreciate and respect the numerous understandable media requests that have poured in this evening regarding our American Hero and Champion of Justice, he will not be giving any interviews at this time,” the man’s lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, said in a post on X.
“None.Zero.”Paltzik added that he “too will not be giving any interviews on his behalf at this time.
None.Zero.”As deliberations in the triple murder trial unfolded over a matter of days, it became increasingly clear that the 12-person jury, comprised of nine women and three men, would not reach a unanimous verdict.
The foreperson issued deadlock notices to Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan twice before returning to the courtroom to say one juror was not following the reasonable doubt standard and was blocking a unanimous decision.Sullivan then sent jurors back to deliberations once more before they again returned with the news that they were deadlocked for a third time, forcing the judge to declare a mistrial Sept.
4.“We are focused entirely on his health, safety, and well-being,” Paltzik said in the statement about his client.
“There will be a time for accountability and a time for the real story of the Lindsay Clancy Trial to be told.But not right now.”The jury was tasked with determining whether Clancy was guilty of murdering her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, by strangling them with exercise bands Jan.
24, 2023.Her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued that she was in psychosis at the time of the killings, a result of the postpartum psychosis she was suffering from.
But prosecutors said that Clancy was not in psychosis, that she was awar...