Gayle King Visibly Stunned After Learning Lone Holdout In Clancy Jury Was Black

Gayle King appeared taken aback Friday as a juror from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial revealed that the lone holdout responsible for the 11-1 deadlock was also the only Black member of the panel.

Juror Paula Devlin appeared on “CBS Mornings” and offered a fresh look inside the seven days of deliberations that ultimately ended without a verdict in the highly publicized Massachusetts case.

Devlin said the 12-person jury was made up of nine women and three men, ranging in age from 22 to about 70. She said there was only one minority juror, a Black man in his 30s, who ultimately became the lone holdout against finding Clancy not criminally responsible.

The revelation visibly caught King’s attention during the interview as Devlin walked through how the jury’s positions shifted throughout deliberations.

According to Devlin, the panel initially began with eight jurors leaning toward finding Clancy not criminally responsible, two undecided and two favoring a murder conviction.

“I was leaning towards not responsible from all the evidence I had heard,” Devlin told King. “And I had certain things I wanted to look at when we got into deliberation. Everything that we talked about and every point that everybody in the room made just kind of reinforced that more and more.”

Clancy, 36, was charged with murdering her three young children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, inside the family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023.

Her lawyers acknowledged that Clancy killed the children but argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and had been heavily medicated.

Prosecutors argued that Clancy planned the killings and understood that what she was doing was wrong.

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After more than seven days of deliberations, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4 when jurors remained unable to reach a unanimous decision.

Several jurors have since said the final split was 11-1 in favor of finding Clancy not criminally responsible.

Devlin said the group spent days attempting to work through the disagreement with the holdout but ultimately got nowhere.

“We all worked together. And I don’t know if it was to convince him to start with,” Devlin told King. “We all worked together to convince ourselves once we got to that point where it was 10 to 2. I felt very bad for them because they felt attacked. And there is no way to not do that.”

“Even in normal conversation, when it is pointed at you and you have to defend yourself, it’s a hard thing to do,” she added. “We don’t have to always do that.”

Devlin said two witnesses had an especially strong impact on her eventual decision: forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick and Patrick Clancy, Lindsay’s husband at the time of the killings.

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Resnick testified about altruistic filicide, a condition in which a parent believes killing a child is somehow in the child’s best interest.

“I think Dr. Resnick, his testimony about altruistic filicide was really impactful,” Devlin said, referring to the psychological condition when a parent believes killing their children is best for them. “All throughout the trial, we had all the witnesses, there had been nothing but good said about Lindsay and how amazing of a mother she was, how much she loved her children.”

Devlin said evidence from inside the Clancy home reinforced that impression.

“We saw that in every picture that was taken in the house on the night that this happened,” she continued. “Everywhere you looked, there was just love. There was a big sign that said, ‘It’s a wonderful life.’ There wasn’t anything that says she wasn’t that. And then to hear somebody talking about a real reason why all of a sudden this could happen, that was really impactful.”

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Patrick Clancy‘s emotional testimony also weighed heavily on Devlin.

“I think the prosecution tried to nudge Patrick to say something derogatory and he wouldn’t,” Devlin said. “And that was very impactful, even after all this time and even after knowing this happened and losing his three children, he still couldn’t say anything really bad about her.”

The mistrial has since sparked an aggressive new legal push from Clancy’s defense team.

Attorney Kevin Reddington filed a motion Thursday asking Sullivan to acquit Lindsay Clancy rather than allow prosecutors to put her through another trial.

Reddington has focused heavily on reports from jurors who said the lone holdout acknowledged having reasonable doubt but still refused to join the other 11 jurors.

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“I would defend that person’s right to be a holdout for a month. That’s what the system is about,” Reddington told “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday. “But when the forelady indicated clearly and unequivocally in the jury question that this person had doubt, reasonable doubt, as we know now, and just refused to listen to the judge’s instruction on the law, that’s when I was upset, because that’s why I used the expressions and the terms I did. It just wasn’t right.”

Devlin, however, said she does not support simply throwing out the case, despite believing Clancy was not criminally responsible.

“I don’t feel good about that,” she said about the filing, which experts told CBS News is a long shot. “Part of the reason why we wanted ‘not responsible’ was that everybody wants justice for the children.”

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She said the three children remained at the center of the jury’s deliberations even as the panel struggled over how the law should apply to their mother’s mental state.

“Those children never left that room. They’ve never left our hearts. And that was a way to get justice for those children. This wouldn’t have happened if Lindsay didn’t get lost in the system and failed by the system,” she said.

Sullivan is expected to hear the defense motion Sept. 29 during a previously scheduled status hearing.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not yet announced whether prosecutors will seek another trial if the motion fails.

Reddington has also indicated he could consider a resolution involving lesser charges, but said any such deal would ultimately depend on prosecutors.

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