Clancy Jury Exposes Closed-Door Chaos

Jurors just gave a behind-the-scenes interview about the deliberation room that led to a hung jury in Lindsay Clancy’s criminal trial. The mistrial highlights the erosion of the sanctity of life in America. And it clearly exemplifies how critical the pro-life work of the ACLJ remains.

As reported by the New York Post:

The jury foreperson in Lindsay Clancy’s high-stakes triple murder trial detailed just how close the panel was to finding the killer mom not guilty by reason of insanity until one male holdout juror blocked the verdict.

“He admitted he had reasonable doubt after we watched the video of the interview,” the female juror told NBC 10 Boston in an interview with two other women jury members.

“I started filling out forms, I was so excited,” the woman said.

“There were three forms I had to fill out and I started filling them out, I wrote my signature on each one but then he said, ‘But I’m still not going to say she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.’”

One of the three jurors, was named Paula and is a former government contractor. Another, Kelly, is a chef in Plymouth, and the foreperson, Ronnie, is a retired fifth-grade special needs teacher.

The jurors called the holdout “arrogant” for refusing to interact with the other members and for refusing to consider their takes on the evidence in the case.

“He was very arrogant. He really did not take anything that anybody said,” one of the women claimed.

Another said, “every one of us in the hours of our frustration would get up and walk the room because you just couldn’t sit anymore. And we would all go to the cart with the exhibits. He, I think, got up to the cart once very briefly and went back to his seat.”

“He would not interact with us and try to understand,” she continued. “We read to him, on numerous occasions, the definition of reasonable doubt from Judge [William] Sullivan’s instruction.”

“But he had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children,” she explained.

The jurors told the outlet the prosecution didn’t show enough compassion toward Clancy — who the jurors learned at trial struggled with crippling insomnia, anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts and thoughts of harming her kids in the four months leading up to the murders.

The entire world has been watching the Lindsay Clancy case out of Massachusetts. The case was ruled a mistrial. We’re being told that one solitary holdout eventually dug in, and they couldn’t find Clancy “not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility” because they couldn’t get over the fact that Lindsay Clancy acknowledged strangling her children. 

As one of the jurors who apparently wanted Clancy essentially acquitted of this gruesome crime stated, the holdout “had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.” 

This trial took place in the state of Massachusetts, where people applauded a late-term abortion bill that was signed into law by the governor. Massachusetts is also the state that used tax dollars to fund a multi-million-dollar campaign to attack pro-life Pregnancy Resource Centers, which we took action against, launching our own multimedia counter campaign, and filing a lawsuit against the state.

 We constantly talk about the sanctity of life, and about when life begins. It’s bad enough that in some states, a baby can be murdered up to the moment of birth – and beyond. Now we’re seeing children whose lives were stolen in a horrific manner.

With this erosion of the sanctity of life in society, the ACLJ’s fight for the unborn is more vital than ever. Most recently the ACLJ supported legislation that will prevent surrogate mothers from being forced to abort babies if the intended parents decide they don’t want to see the pregnancy through.

Every unborn child is a human life deserving protection. Contract provisions that require abortion or punish a woman for refusing one place another party’s preferences ahead of both the unborn child and the woman carrying that child. Federal courts should not be involved in enforcing such provisions, and the Preventing Forced Abortions Act addresses this problem directly.  

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more discussion of the statements from the Clancy trial jurors. We were also joined by Special Presidential Envoy Ric Grenell to discuss the first-ever GOP midterm convention kicking off today in Dallas.

Watch the full broadcast below: