Lindsay Clancy's attorney moves to strike juror

A serious dispute emerged during jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Thursday, after the defense claimed that one juror was refusing to follow the judge’s legal instructions regarding reasonable doubt.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington told the court that, according to the jury foreperson, “there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law.” Reddington asked for the juror to be removed, warning, “If we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame.”

Prosecutors opposed the request. They argued that there was “no way to determine what the deliberations are, who's correct, who's incorrect, nor should we attempt to, because that's part of deliberations.” They said the judge had taken the appropriate step by confirming that all jurors were capable of following the law.

Judge William Sullivan refused to remove the juror, describing the discharge of a deliberating juror as “a sensitive undertaking.” He said it would not be appropriate “to side with one side or the other of the deliberations.”

Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children—Cora, Dawson, and Callan. She does not deny the killings but claims she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

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