Lindsay Clancy is going to have another day in court. The jurors who wanted to find her not guilty are now having their 15 minutes of media fame – and smashing the assumed narrative.
When the trial ended last week with a hung jury, the theatrics of defense lawyer Kevin Reddington had signaled the court – and by extension, the media – that there was a single holdout juror that refused to go along with the verdict, whom he tried to get removed, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said no. As Professor Jonathan Turley put it, it was “Twelve Angry Men,” but in reverse.
After declaring that the 11-1 mistrial was “no time to gloat,” Reddington bragged repeatedly about “crushing” District Attorney Tim Cruz, whom he also attacked. He insisted that, in the trial, no one said a single negative thing about his client as a mother — ignoring that little matter of the three young children whom she had strangled to death, one by one.
But it was his attack on the holdout juror that was a breathtaking abandonment of restraint and decency. Reddington knows it is very likely that the name of this juror (he has already been identified as one of only three males on the jury) will eventually be uncovered by Internet sleuths. He effectively put a target on the back of a juror who committed the unpardonable sin of not being convinced by his arguments....
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