The Megyn Kelly Show - September 03, 2026


BREAKING: Lindsay Clancy Jury Still Deadlocked - Is There ONE Holdout Left?


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00:00:27.300 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:00:39.000 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to a special edition of The MK Show. It's 3.20
00:00:44.260 Eastern time and there is breaking news in the Lindsay Clancy trial. We have had a note from
00:00:50.480 the jurors to the judge, and we anticipated it possibly being an update that the jury was hung,
00:01:01.180 hopelessly deadlocked, and not able to come to a verdict. Instead, what we have gotten via Court TV,
00:01:07.840 which is serving as a pool for this case, is that there is anger and frustration being expressed
00:01:14.600 by the defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, that he slammed down some paperwork, that
00:01:21.980 the judge then gave Reddington, I think, additional paperwork, and Reddington pushed it back at
00:01:26.440 him, that the prosecutors continue to look upset, but they're not reacting like Kevin
00:01:31.320 Reddington is with physical anger, that the judge was raising his voice at Kevin Reddington,
00:01:37.880 that Kevin Reddington, defense attorney, again, was head snapping forward, raising his voice
00:01:43.300 to almost audible, clearly a disagreement between the defense lawyer and the judge and the prosecutors
00:01:47.700 not particularly happy, though more stone faced. But Reddington visibly, quote, upset via court
00:01:55.580 TV. After the disagreement burst out in that fashion, they wheeled Lindsay Clancy up to the
00:02:04.020 bench, the judge's bench. And there was an exchange with her. We don't know what was said.
00:02:10.400 typically you don't bring the defendant to the judge, to the court and the bench. That's
00:02:16.760 extraordinary. We don't know why they did that. And then they started bringing the jurors back
00:02:23.100 in the room. We expected to hear a note that would say something, read something along the
00:02:27.120 lines of we're hopelessly deadlocked and we can't reach a verdict. But instead, the judge started
00:02:32.960 calling up the jurors one by one and conducting individual voir dire or Q&A of each juror.
00:02:40.940 And that's underway right now. And we have no idea what this is all in service of. I want to
00:02:47.340 bring in our legal panel, which is here to help us navigate it all. We've got Phil Holloway. We've
00:02:52.900 got Dave Ehrenberg. And we also are pleased and thrilled to be joined by our pal Ashley Banfield
00:02:59.980 of the great podcast, Drop Dead Serious.
00:03:03.780 And of course, Phil and Dave,
00:03:05.080 co-host MK True Crime's show
00:03:07.740 on our MK True Crime channel.
00:03:09.640 Guys, thank you so much for being with us so quickly.
00:03:12.080 This is pretty extraordinary, Aaron Berg.
00:03:13.620 What do you think is happening?
00:03:15.440 You know, the only thing I thought would be happening
00:03:17.580 would be the declaration of a mistrial.
00:03:19.480 They clearly haven't decided.
00:03:22.200 I think that Reddington is probably very upset
00:03:24.120 because he wants this to be a mistrial
00:03:26.460 and not have any more pressure on the jury
00:03:28.560 to stay out there.
00:03:29.440 He knows that if you keep pressuring the jury, it's more likely than they would find something to compromise on, perhaps the guilty on involuntary manslaughter.
00:03:38.400 So what I think is happening is that Reddington had wanted and anticipated a hung jury, a mistrial right now, and the judge seems to be prolonging it.
00:03:46.740 Let's give him more time, more time.
00:03:47.960 That's my guess.
00:03:50.260 OK, so that's maybe why he's doing the one by one.
00:03:53.200 These are live pictures from inside the court right now.
00:03:56.480 There's no audio.
00:03:57.500 if there is, we'll take you there. But right now, the judge, we believe, is still conducting his
00:04:02.560 questioning of the jurors. Phil, what do you think is happening? Because I heard some speculation
00:04:07.500 this could come down to potential bullying, even, of the holdout or holdouts that might be in that
00:04:14.640 room. Well, Megan, the parties are now apparently seated back at their tables, and the defendant is
00:04:19.740 no longer at the bench. The reason she was there is because she has a right to understand and
00:04:25.620 participate and be aware of everything that's going on. So if there's something substantive
00:04:28.840 happening where important decisions are being made at sidebar, that's why she was there. I
00:04:34.020 suspect, and the jury's coming in now, I suspect this is about to be a hung jury and a mistrial.
00:04:41.500 Ashley, what do you make of it? So I have a whole different feeling on this because I've
00:04:45.800 been through a couple of these situations where jurors are angry and frustrated and noisy. We're
00:04:53.520 not hearing that. But I tend to think that if they're bringing each juror in separately,
00:04:58.660 there's a good chance that they're questioning their behavior. And if someone is being difficult,
00:05:03.520 but I'm thinking about Kevin Reddington being angry and throwing the papers back at the judge
00:05:08.540 and then throwing them on the floor. And his head was in his hands at one point and thinking,
00:05:11.840 I wonder if they're trying to remove a juror, a difficult juror, maybe the one holdout juror.
00:05:16.620 And then Kevin Reddington doesn't get his mistrial. And Kevin Reddington probably wants
00:05:21.120 the mistrial because he probably is giving a deal by actually one second because i think we're now
00:05:26.500 they're standing and the judge is coming in let's see let's check in let's hear the audio if there
00:05:29.940 if any no still silent let's listen though
00:05:36.780 for the listing audience both the prosecutor and the defense lawyer are on their feet
00:05:50.460 For the record, present before the court are 12 deliberating jurors and six off-mits in the matter of Commonwealth versus Lindsey Clancy.
00:05:57.480 All other parties are present.
00:05:59.120 All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk.
00:06:00.140 You're welcome.
00:06:01.000 Good afternoon, everyone.
00:06:03.360 I just wanted to go over a couple of things this afternoon.
00:06:07.280 First off, I want to remind you that you are required to follow my instructions on the law as I gave them to you.
00:06:15.520 All right?
00:06:15.840 I also want to, at this point, go over the instruction that I gave you about reasonable doubt, all right?
00:06:24.260 And so, reasonable doubt.
00:06:27.220 The burden is on the Commonwealth to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the charges made against her.
00:06:34.880 What is proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
00:06:37.420 Well, the term is often used and probably pretty well understood, though it's not easily defined.
00:06:43.220 Proof beyond a reasonable doubt does not mean proof beyond all possible doubt.
00:06:47.440 For everything in the lives of human beings is open to some possible or imaginary doubt.
00:06:53.240 A charge is proved beyond a reasonable doubt if, after you've compared and considered all of the evidence,
00:06:59.800 you have in your minds an abiding conviction to a moral certainty that the charge is true.
00:07:05.260 When we refer to moral certainty, we mean the highest degree of certainty possible in matters relating to human affairs, based solely on the evidence that has been put before you in this case.
00:07:19.080 I've told you that every person is presumed to be innocent until they are proved guilty, and that the burden of proof is on the prosecutor.
00:07:26.940 If you evaluate all the evidence and you still have a reasonable doubt remaining, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of that doubt and must be acquitted.
00:07:37.940 It's not enough for the Commonwealth to establish a probability, even a strong probability, that the defendant is more likely to be guilty than not guilty.
00:07:47.820 That is not enough.
00:07:50.160 Instead, the evidence must convince you of the defendant's guilt to a reasonable and moral certainty,
00:07:56.840 a certainty that convinces your understanding and satisfies your reason and judgment as jurors
00:08:03.020 who are sworn to act conscientiously on the evidence.
00:08:06.860 This is what we mean by proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:08:11.160 All right. And with that, I'm going to ask you to resume your deliberations.
00:08:16.160 Court, all rise, please.
00:08:17.580 i think i think we were right i think we had it right wow dave yeah so it it it looks like
00:08:30.700 they're having a dispute about what the legal standard is that will control their verdict
00:08:36.220 and in particular reasonable doubt what amounts to reasonable doubt we there was court tv had
00:08:42.400 reported that there was something wrong in the jury room that that's what they they were reporting
00:08:46.800 that they'd been told something was wrong in the jury room via the note.
00:08:50.300 But we don't know what was wrong, what happened, and what led to the judge doing that.
00:08:55.640 What do you think, Dave?
00:08:56.180 Yes, well, I can see why Ashley had that guess because of what Court TV reported.
00:09:01.780 But I think now we see that Phil and I had a right that this was simply just the judge
00:09:06.860 going and telling the jury, go back in there and keep deliberating.
00:09:11.280 And here's the definition, whereas you had the defense lawyer upset
00:09:15.760 because he wanted the mistrial he was like stop coercing them stop pressuring them and that's
00:09:21.100 what happened so i don't know what went on behind the closed doors but you give a lot of discretion
00:09:25.700 to the jury the jury can yell and even almost threaten each other just can't get beyond a
00:09:30.840 point where it's physical violence we let that go on so that's why the defense lawyer was like
00:09:35.600 call the mistrial call the mistrial or get rid of the jury the juror who we think is is uh ruling
00:09:40.460 for the state so yeah uh that's what i think happened the judge has said keep deliberating
00:09:44.680 Well, there's one piece missing from this, Megan. We don't know what the note said. The note, you know, let's be careful. The note did not say we are deadlocked. And the judge, as far as I saw, did not read the note or let us know what it said. It could have been something very simple, such as like a juror is not wanting to participate in the deliberations.
00:10:03.500 I've actually had that in a case where we had to bring the jurors out and had to ask them questions one by one, kick somebody off and bring in an alternate.
00:10:11.840 So the defense may very well have said, judge, this is the same thing as a hung jury.
00:10:17.860 But I'm going to wait until we know what the note said from that jury before I can decide whether the judge did the right thing.
00:10:25.240 And if they were, in fact, deadlocked and he sent them back to deliberate again, that's a violation of the law in the state of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
00:10:34.760 Yeah. Now we're on thin ice. That's a reversible error if he does that.
00:10:38.320 I can't imagine this judge would have done that because he already gave them the charge, the so-called dynamite charge, to make them one last chance at reaching a verdict.
00:10:49.080 And my understanding is you're not allowed to make them go back again.
00:10:52.580 But that's depending on what the note says.
00:10:55.120 If the if the note had said we're still hopelessly deadlocked and he just did what he did, I think he's in trouble.
00:10:59.840 But it doesn't sound like that's what the note said.
00:11:01.780 Again, Court TV reporting the note conveyed that there was something wrong in the jury room.
00:11:07.960 And then all we heard from this judge, Ashley, was I want to remind you, you're required to follow my instructions on the law on the law.
00:11:17.220 So they have a question about what the law is.
00:11:19.820 I want to go over my instructions on reasonable doubt, reminding them the burden of proof is on the prosecutor and then defining reasonable doubt for the jury does not mean beyond all possible doubt.
00:11:34.560 If after you've considered everything, you have a moral certainty that the charges are true, then that's that's good enough for a conviction.
00:11:44.440 and then reminding them that she's entitled to the presumption of innocence.
00:11:48.160 A probability of guilt is not enough.
00:11:50.020 Even a strong probability is not enough.
00:11:52.300 You must reach a reasonable and moral certainty
00:11:54.640 that satisfies your judgment as jurors when it comes to the charge
00:11:58.460 and then sent them back out.
00:12:00.240 This obviously very much upset Kevin Reddington, the prosecution, not as much.
00:12:05.440 So what are we to make of it, Ashley Banfield?
00:12:07.960 I think Kevin Reddington is pissed that he said moral certainty.
00:12:11.060 I can't believe he said moral certainty.
00:12:13.360 Reasonable doubt, yes.
00:12:14.440 Moral certainty, no.
00:12:15.720 I don't think that belongs in a jury room.
00:12:17.400 I think the reasonable doubt issue, I'm always waiting for the question.
00:12:20.960 And Megan, you know how many times a jury comes back with the very first question saying, define reasonable doubt.
00:12:25.860 And so I'm thinking maybe.
00:12:28.080 Oh, forgive me, Ashley.
00:12:29.160 I apologize.
00:12:29.880 But Reddington is addressing the judge.
00:12:31.440 Let's listen.
00:12:31.860 This juror that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt.
00:12:36.380 All right.
00:12:37.000 Call on.
00:12:40.220 Thank you, Your Honor.
00:12:42.020 We have the note from the jury.
00:12:44.520 There's no way to determine what the deliberations are,
00:12:47.600 who's correct, who's incorrect, nor should we attempt to
00:12:50.580 because that's part of deliberations.
00:12:52.620 I think what Your Honor has done by asking each juror
00:12:55.660 if they're able to follow the law
00:12:57.140 and then giving a general instruction on reasonable doubt
00:12:59.780 is appropriate under Commonwealth v. Ralph,
00:13:03.020 so we do not have an objection to the questions
00:13:06.520 or the re-instruction.
00:13:07.880 All right. Well, I'm sure as parties understand, as they say, the discharge of a deliberating juror is a sensitive undertaking.
00:13:18.220 I was just specifically responding to the specific question that was asked.
00:13:26.480 I don't feel that it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations.
00:13:34.700 I don't feel it's appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or the 11.
00:13:41.360 At this point, I've asked if they are able to follow my instructions.
00:13:47.240 According, they swore earlier that they could.
00:13:49.980 They've said at this point that they can.
00:13:52.440 That was specifically addressed towards the specific question.
00:13:58.500 And that's what I'm doing.
00:13:59.980 So the defendant's objection is noted.
00:14:02.560 and we will be in recess on this at this time.
00:14:07.720 Thank you.
00:14:09.540 Oh, boy.
00:14:13.220 Wow.
00:14:13.660 All right, so we're back at it.
00:14:14.920 And what we missed in the beginning there,
00:14:16.840 according to Lauren Conlon,
00:14:17.720 who's been reporting on this,
00:14:18.680 is that Kevin Reddington said something like,
00:14:21.140 quote, if we come back here in 30 minutes
00:14:23.060 with a mistrial because of this one juror,
00:14:25.940 she writes, he wants to remove this juror.
00:14:29.100 And then you had Prosecutor Sprague saying
00:14:30.920 that Judge Sullivan's instructions were appropriate.
00:14:34.200 Reddington had also said,
00:14:35.620 there is one juror who refuses to listen to the law
00:14:39.220 in open court.
00:14:40.840 Go ahead, Ashley.
00:14:42.280 Wow.
00:14:43.680 I thought all along it was like,
00:14:45.460 one person is making it difficult for others.
00:14:48.720 I don't know why I thought that,
00:14:50.020 but I certainly thought that this is a moral decision
00:14:54.180 among this jury,
00:14:55.300 because they didn't ask for a whole lot of evidence
00:14:57.020 or readbacks, which would make a legal problem, right?
00:14:59.900 they're discussing legal issues. No, I think they're discussing moral issues. And maybe
00:15:04.120 this one juror is not following the law that allows for an insanity defense or a not responsible
00:15:11.220 defense. It is such a fascinating development, though, to see him so angry, because I think
00:15:19.700 that what he's seeing is that this could be my mistrial. And at 11 to 1, I think I get a deal
00:15:26.000 after this. Yeah. This is, I got to tell you, this is reminding me, by the way, we're now joined by
00:15:32.220 Matt Murphy. The gang's all together. The best true crime people on the internet are all right
00:15:36.960 here together. Great to see you, Matt. This is so reminding me on our podcast feed this summer,
00:15:43.960 we've been doing an MK Confidential crime series. And this week we're doing Scott Peterson. And
00:15:49.000 you are going to hear, audience, about tonight or tomorrow, I can't remember which night it is,
00:15:54.660 I think it's tonight, about how in the Scott Peterson deliberations, the jury foreman was removed.
00:16:03.300 He was removed and replaced because he went in and told the judge that he felt bullied by his fellow jurors and no longer believed he could come to a verdict based only on what was happening in that room.
00:16:15.880 He thought he didn't feel safe anymore and he felt like he was going to be forced to come to a verdict based on something other than just the evidence.
00:16:22.880 And he was replaced by another juror.
00:16:25.540 And here we are, I mean, 20 plus years later in this trial, zeroing in on one juror who the defense says is refusing to follow the law.
00:16:38.200 And we now know, Matt, from the exchange we just heard, this is about one juror, which would suggest, though we don't know, that they've got an 11 to 1 split in that jury room.
00:16:48.600 Yeah, sure would.
00:16:49.320 And he's seen the note.
00:16:50.480 None of us have.
00:16:51.240 Um, but yeah, this, uh, this sounds like, uh, the four person sent out a note saying
00:16:56.700 we have a juror that's not deliberating.
00:16:58.520 Okay.
00:16:58.920 That's typically what happens when, uh, when a judge gets a note like this, they'll bring
00:17:03.300 in everybody.
00:17:03.900 Can you follow the law?
00:17:05.320 You know, can you go back and deliberate?
00:17:06.900 And it's a group of people that are frustrated with somebody who is, who they feel, um, isn't
00:17:12.540 going with them.
00:17:13.640 And that person was probably for died by the court and said, no, I'm deliberating.
00:17:17.920 I'm talking to everybody and I'm following the law.
00:17:21.360 That reasonable doubt instruction, that moral certainty, Ashley, that's the letter to the
00:17:27.780 law in the state of Massachusetts.
00:17:29.040 We used to have the same language in California until the legislature actually removed it.
00:17:35.240 And now it's just proof to an abiding conviction.
00:17:37.560 So for the viewer, what does that mean?
00:17:38.920 Abiding conviction, it's old language.
00:17:41.280 Abiding means something stays with you.
00:17:43.700 Conviction means that based on your common sense, your life experience, following the
00:17:49.060 law and considering the totality of the evidence, you believe the person did it and you believe it
00:17:54.560 strongly enough that you could look yourself in the mirror in a week, a month, a year and say,
00:17:59.140 you know what, I still think the defendant did it. That's the that's the way we would always
00:18:03.500 explain it. But one of the problems here, Megan, is that the prosecution didn't really explain any
00:18:08.220 of this law to the jury. So we'll have to. So they're confused.
00:18:12.960 The talk is back on. They've started deliberating again.
00:18:17.680 This business of one holdout and refusing to deliberate is very interesting because because what does the judge do?
00:18:26.680 I'll tell you something. Garagos told me I would have won the Scott Peterson case.
00:18:33.020 I would have gotten a not guilty or a hung jury, a hung jury, basically, which would have been a win, at least for the time being.
00:18:39.740 had the judge not kept removing jurors who were on my side.
00:18:45.400 That's how he sees it.
00:18:46.940 But he it is, of course, you can imagine as a defense attorney being in there and the
00:18:51.460 jury foreperson is saying, I want to vote a certain way, but all the other jurors are
00:18:56.640 bullying me.
00:18:57.600 And I now no longer feel I can vote the way I want to vote because they're all ganging
00:19:01.920 up on me.
00:19:02.840 And instead of the judge, this is Garagos's point, instead of the judge calling in the
00:19:07.020 bully jurors and saying, what are you doing to this poor juror? He bounced the juror. He got rid
00:19:13.260 of the juror and replaced him with an alternate, which, of course, outraged Garagos, saying you're
00:19:19.400 getting rid of the one who's the holdout. That's bullshit. And this is not fair under the law to
00:19:24.760 my client. And honestly, this whole thing is giving me vibes of that because Kevin Reddington
00:19:29.600 is the one who's outraged. And I don't think wanted to see that individual Q&A of each juror.
00:19:35.160 He's probably very pissed off that there's an 11 to 1 gang up and thinks that a mistrial should be declared because I'm gleaning Phil.
00:19:42.540 He probably thinks right now that's the best he's going to get because he's probably gleaning like we are.
00:19:46.900 It's 11 to 1 probably against him.
00:19:49.280 I kind of take it the other way.
00:19:50.940 I think that Reddington might think that it's 11 to 1 in his favor.
00:19:55.220 Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to maybe let one of the holdout jurors go.
00:20:00.980 but I want to go back to the jury being questioned at Sidebar. We've talked about this before. It's
00:20:08.880 unlawful and improper for the judge to send them back to continue to deliberate if they say that
00:20:15.720 they are hung. However, the jury, if they wish to go back, they can be allowed to go back if they
00:20:23.000 agree to. So the judge can send them back again if they all agree to go back and deliberate.
00:20:29.480 So he could have been addressing that issue.
00:20:31.840 I can envision a scenario, and this is something of speculation because we don't know what the verdict is or what the note says, I should say.
00:20:40.460 It could have said, look, we're deadlocked because we got one juror who won't follow your instructions.
00:20:45.420 So then he brings them out and he says, okay, if I talk to the jury about following my instructions, would you be willing to continue to deliberate?
00:20:53.740 And if they all came up there, and they all did, it wasn't just one, and if they all said, yes, judge, we will go back.
00:20:59.180 if you give some further instructions, that could explain what's going on. But in the absence of
00:21:04.900 the contents of that note, we just have no idea. All we can do is speculate.
00:21:10.140 I might be able to help here. I think I may be able to help. The reporting from inside the court
00:21:13.800 at this point says that the note had an instruction from the foreperson saying there is one juror
00:21:18.820 that refuses to listen to the law on reasonable doubt. And it was Kevin Reddington that wanted
00:21:24.920 the juror removed so i actually do believe how he knows it but that he thinks that obviously if
00:21:31.500 they're not following the letter of the law they think that that holdout juror is not following
00:21:36.200 the letter of the law so that you can actually find them not guilty because of the responsibility
00:21:41.540 factor so i think it is pretty interesting and actually to your point phil you're right if they
00:21:46.700 come back with a deadlock twice that's it massachusetts law says it's over but i don't
00:21:50.160 think that's what the note said i don't think they didn't i don't think the juror uh who's
00:21:54.460 the foreperson said, we're deadlocked. The note actually just said, one juror refuses to listen
00:22:00.060 to the law on reasonable doubt, which is different from we can't agree. Well, I've had this in court.
00:22:04.600 This is crazy. So yes, this Christina Rex is reporting, she's with WBZ. She is reporting
00:22:10.460 what you said. Reddington arguing in open court, the Clancy case says to the judge, the court has
00:22:14.080 instruction from the foreperson saying there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law
00:22:19.000 that you've given him or her on reasonable doubt. Prosecutor agrees with judge's approach,
00:22:23.380 which is to read the general instruction on reasonable doubt to the jury.
00:22:27.120 The judge says he doesn't feel it's proper to decide with one side or the other.
00:22:32.140 I think she means side with one side or the other on deliberations.
00:22:35.540 Quote, it's not appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or 11,
00:22:40.360 judge says, insinuating there is an 11 to one holdout issue here.
00:22:44.620 So it's 11 to one inside there.
00:22:47.100 But I don't why do we think we think that that that Kevin Reddington believes
00:22:52.500 He's got 11 of the jurors on his side because he wanted the one juror bounced.
00:22:57.920 Are we possibly looking at a debate about whether whether she might be found the real not guilty?
00:23:06.220 Forget not guilty because of because that is an option on the jury form that that is a choice they have available to them.
00:23:11.880 But we're not gleaning that from these notes.
00:23:14.120 No, not at all.
00:23:14.840 What I said before was that I think Kevin Reddington is seeing with this note saying one juror cannot follow the law according to reasonable doubt.
00:23:24.080 It may say to Kevin Reddington, aha, following the law and reasonable doubt would get me to a not guilty by reason of insanity or not responsible in Massachusetts.
00:23:33.780 And Matt Murphy knows this. What do you make of it? Matt knows.
00:23:37.180 I was just going to ask him to weigh in. Go ahead, Matt. Yeah, go ahead, Matt.
00:23:40.300 No, look, he's been able to see them. Right, Megan? That's one thing that we haven't. And when you stand up to do a closing argument, especially in a murder case like this, you really do get a vibe from the jury. And even when they're stone faced, some of them are like, they're with you and you can tell.
00:23:57.300 So he must feel that. Otherwise, it's like I'm watching this. He originally wanted the court to declare a mistrial. He could talk himself out of a really good verdict by doing that, potentially.
00:24:13.400 If the court declares it and it's 11 to 1 and 11 were on his side, then a mistrial has been declared and he's got to theoretically go through this whole thing again.
00:24:24.160 You know, they'll enter into negotiations, Megan, if this thing hangs.
00:24:28.060 But I don't know. Then again, Phil, Dave, we all have had crazy experiences with juries where you think they're with you or against you and you think the holdout is this person.
00:24:40.320 And we're so often wrong. It's, you know, yeah, I told the story with with Ashley last night about a case one of my colleagues did where there was an ex-con who had his constitutional rights restored and it was hanging 11 to one.
00:24:55.300 And my my buddy was like, I got to get rid of this guy. I don't know how to know how. And I think he got he was later. He was sick or something.
00:25:01.240 And he basically bagged out. He was the one holdout for guilty. And it was and he was a it was a former prisoner who's like, these guys are all full of crap.
00:25:08.280 you never know and kevin reddington must have a vibe but he doesn't know either until you know
00:25:14.260 until none of us don't think they told the lawyers which which juror you don't think they told the
00:25:20.200 lawyers which juror no no yeah no way this is such a pickle this is such a pickle what do you what
00:25:28.120 would you guess matt the judge is asking each juror or telling um can you can you follow the law can
00:25:35.020 you follow the law as the court has instructed you, can you continue to deliberate with your
00:25:38.740 fellow jurors and listen to what everybody says and keep an open mind? That's the generic question.
00:25:43.920 Some version of that will be asked of each juror and most of them will nod. And he might be going
00:25:49.480 as far as saying, is there somebody that's refusing to deliberate or participate in the
00:25:54.460 process? But that basically requires them to sit in a corner with their arms crossed.
00:25:59.840 If they're talking and they continue to engage, that's usually considered deliberation under
00:26:05.120 the law.
00:26:05.740 And the court's comments on that, the court has to be very careful before they remove
00:26:10.820 a juror because if it goes against the defense, that's just virtual guaranteed reversal on
00:26:18.560 appeal if the court is not very careful.
00:26:20.820 So they don't like to do that.
00:26:22.640 Jury deliberations, Megan, are the wild west.
00:26:25.360 And the stuff that goes back, the law takes a view that we almost don't want to know, okay?
00:26:32.480 And, you know, who knows what's going on back there, and we won't know.
00:26:38.920 But if it's 11 to 1, that bodes, I think, well for the defense in this one.
00:26:43.640 But they could be hung between a murder and a voluntary manslaughter, remember that instruction.
00:26:48.560 or they could be hung between a vol and and this not criminally responsible language in
00:26:53.980 the state of Massachusetts for insanity. We just don't know. I mean, what how would you
00:26:59.880 let me ask you this, Matt, how would you be playing it if you were in that court?
00:27:03.120 First of all, OK, I got a cheap shot here, Megan. I would have first thing I would have
00:27:08.280 done is I would have combined with Reddington and demanded to this court that we needed more
00:27:12.280 time to argue the case. Megan, I had never done a murder closing where I haven't spent at least
00:27:16.520 an hour explaining the law. The prosecutor was up there. She did a much better job in closing than
00:27:21.980 at any other point, in my opinion, in the entire trial. But then to spend 40 minutes on a case with
00:27:27.380 this complexity, with this many witnesses, with 13 different prescribed medications and everything
00:27:31.800 else we saw, 40 frigging minutes, I was pulling my hair out watching this, Megan. So the first
00:27:37.340 thing I would have done is I would have taken proper time explaining the law to the jury.
00:27:41.640 If I was parachuted in, I would have objected to the court giving the reasonable doubt instruction, but we don't know the language of the note.
00:27:51.340 The reasonable doubt language that we just listened to is very pro-defense in the state of Massachusetts.
00:27:56.740 That moral certainty thing.
00:27:58.000 Yeah, it is.
00:27:58.420 Part of the problem with Massachusetts, and Mark Yergos and I were talking about this, their law on insanity, Megan, they use what's called the McCool Rule.
00:28:05.120 Under the McNaughton rule, which is almost every other state, if a person is suffering
00:28:09.320 from mental illness, they can still be held criminally responsible as long as they understand
00:28:13.600 the nature and quality of their actions.
00:28:15.660 Massachusetts has a third prong that even if they're mentally ill, even if they know
00:28:21.960 what they're doing but are unable to control their conduct, they can be found criminally
00:28:26.560 not responsible.
00:28:28.120 That basically, the language is so amorphous in the state of Massachusetts that the jury
00:28:33.320 gets to do pretty much what they want. That was Mark's whole take on it. It's the best explanation
00:28:38.160 that I've heard. So it's a big fat who knows. This case has been crazy. If I can pivot really
00:28:45.400 quick, Megan, the one thing I feel very strongly about in this case is that woman who's taking
00:28:49.820 pictures of the jurors, she should be in custody right now. That is an outrageous thing. But maybe
00:28:55.500 that's a conversation for a different show like that. That whole thing was nuts. And she allegedly
00:29:01.800 said oh no it wasn't of the i just wanted a picture of lindsey clancy which by the way you
00:29:05.320 can get any day on your screen um and then they allegedly found a picture of the juries of the
00:29:12.140 jurors in her deleted photos so this woman's she's in for a world of hurt i hope the court system does
00:29:17.860 its job i hope she is against her i mean she's potentially looking at 20 years i doubt she's
00:29:21.640 going to get that but my god some sort of message needs to be sent because you cannot intimidate
00:29:25.640 jurors and that's that's what that does they they understand their pictures being taken by some nut
00:29:30.420 who's out there and has been told by the judge never to do that. For what purpose? For intimidation,
00:29:35.020 especially in a case like this, this high profile, as much interest in it from the outside world.
00:29:41.000 Okay, so go ahead, Ashley. I know you wanted to weigh in. I could see.
00:29:43.180 No, I just, I'm always fascinated by what's reasonable. And again, most of the cases that
00:29:49.020 I've covered, I often see the first question comes out from the jury, judge, can you please
00:29:52.820 define reasonable doubt? And of course, there is no definition for it. Everybody has a different
00:29:57.980 level of reasonable. I think it's okay for my kids to drink at 18, because that's the law where I'm
00:30:03.120 from. And it's not reasonable to other people that my kids could have a beer at 18. We all have a
00:30:09.560 different level of reasonable. And every person didn't party at Ashley's, right, when they walked
00:30:14.360 into the jury room, they brought all of those experiences in there with them. And so my feeling
00:30:18.080 is that the reason the judge had to describe reasonable doubt again, or at least give them
00:30:22.660 the instruction is because the 11 feel like the one is being unreasonable.
00:30:29.460 You can't get the juror bounced, though, for that reason, Phil, right?
00:30:33.620 Like if that's by the way, I just want to tell the listening audience we are 10 minutes
00:30:36.320 before four.
00:30:37.000 They have never gone past four, this jury.
00:30:39.620 And this is we're going into Labor Day weekend now.
00:30:42.200 Jurors are also known as humans.
00:30:44.780 And the odds of this jury wanting to stick around this courthouse on the Friday of Labor
00:30:51.880 day weekend as opposed to put this thing to bed if it's at all possible in the next 10 minutes are
00:30:55.680 very coming back. We continue to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Fail your thoughts. Well,
00:31:00.700 we don't, you know, reasonable doubt. I like to tell jurors that it's a doubt for which a reason
00:31:06.520 can be attached and it's really can be just that simple. And in this case, you know, the burden is
00:31:12.280 on the prosecutors to disprove the insanity defense beyond a reasonable doubt. And you're
00:31:18.480 right, Megan, you can't just toss a juror because they have a difference of opinion. You could toss
00:31:24.160 a juror if the court is satisfied that a juror is refusing to participate in deliberations. If they
00:31:30.020 just sit back and cross their arms and say, I'm not participating in this anymore. I told y'all
00:31:34.840 what I wanted to do, and I'm not going to participate. That would be enough probably to
00:31:38.580 get a juror tossed from the case. But if they all say that they are willing to continue to listen to
00:31:44.380 the judge's instructions, follow the instructions, a difference of opinion. See, the foreperson may
00:31:49.100 be wrong about this. It may just be that one person has a genuinely held conviction on what
00:31:55.660 they believe the outcome of the case should be. And that's not a failure to deliberate. That's
00:32:00.380 just a hung jury. That's what that is. And so I really think that even though we aren't technically
00:32:06.220 there yet, it looks like we are definitely sort of going down that path. I think we'll know
00:32:11.140 something here shortly, whether or not this jury is going to continue to want to keep working. I
00:32:16.940 think Reddington believes that the juror was probably not going his way. That's why he wanted
00:32:22.480 the juror to be bounced. I think that he believes that he's got this 11 to 1. He would not otherwise
00:32:28.740 be wanting that juror off. And to Matt's point, this is what I was going to say earlier, that we
00:32:33.060 know, those of us who have tried these cases, we know from the time the jury is seated which ones
00:32:38.920 we think we might be able to persuade and which ones are going to be a little harder. And then
00:32:43.160 as you go through the trial, in this case, it lasted a month. Reddington has had a long time
00:32:47.500 to spend in that courtroom with this particular juror, whoever he or she may be, and has a very
00:32:53.460 good sense of whether or not that juror might be sort of leaning his way or not. So I think that
00:32:59.560 that explains his frustration. He believes that he's got this 11 to 1. He believes that there is
00:33:04.800 one juror that needs to be substituted with an alternate. And then he thinks he can get out of
00:33:09.620 here with a clean not guilty or not guilty. It will be not guilty by reason of insanity. I don't
00:33:14.560 think there's any chance that it's going to be a straight not guilty. The prosecutor has some
00:33:21.380 interesting choices to make right now, Matt, because if the jury does come back hung, if they
00:33:28.660 can't turn this one juror around and it really was 11 to 1 in favor of not guilty by reason of
00:33:37.620 mental defect um does this prosecutor want to try this case again they do not with these charges no
00:33:45.020 they don't and look the ashley and i again we were talking about this last night what needs to happen
00:33:49.500 is there needs to be the elected da who's a friend of our friend dave erenberg dave says he's a great
00:33:54.920 guy i don't know him he needs to sit down with these prosecutors probably in the room with
00:33:59.860 reddington and see if they can reach a some sort of a compromise that everybody can live it the
00:34:04.720 problem is if they're 11 to 1 for insanity you know to use the california term here um reddington's
00:34:11.480 not going to be super motivated to uh to make a deal if he thinks that he can get her get her that
00:34:17.200 you know that that after a second trial each side should be motivated to to resolve it we also don't
00:34:25.920 know what happened behind the scenes leading up to this i don't know if these if these two
00:34:29.780 prosecutors dug their heels in and refused to talk better if there was if there was any discussions
00:34:34.040 about you know there's a lot of there's a lot of ways you could sort of bake this pie so to speak
00:34:39.780 that you could find a middle ground like a voluntary manslaughter or maybe you do you you
00:34:44.640 run the three deaths concurrent to one another. There's ways that you could structure it so that
00:34:50.420 nobody would be happy, but there would be some middle ground. But they're going to be motivated
00:34:56.380 to do that. But if it's the other way, if it's 11 to 1 the other way, the prosecution probably
00:35:01.920 is going to say, screw it, we're just going to retry it. Right. Because even though we're all
00:35:06.520 right now assuming Kevin Reddington has gleaned that there's one juror that's for the prosecution
00:35:12.180 and 11 that are for him. We don't know that. We should make clear to the audience. We don't know
00:35:17.840 anything. They didn't actually read the note to us. We just know that Kevin complained in court
00:35:23.080 saying, I want the juror removed and was so angry about, we think, about the judge's refusal to do
00:35:30.500 that, that he was throwing papers and kind of getting in the judge's face. And then the judge
00:35:34.240 was raising his voice. And we believe because Kevin announced it to the court that that's what
00:35:39.440 he was angry about that in fact that's what he was angry about so that's just and we don't know
00:35:44.980 what the note said maybe the note said juror matt murphy is a prick who won't follow reasonable
00:35:50.560 we have the exact wording i think we do i don't have the exact wording but this is the reporting
00:35:55.100 from the courtroom the court has an instruction from the four persons saying there is one
00:35:59.100 juror that refuses to listen to the law on reasonable doubt i think that's here
00:36:06.560 well how do we why do we go from that to that juror is definitely good for the prosecution
00:36:17.400 with the leap it's a leap like that i think matt's matt's uh suggestion there that kevin
00:36:22.680 reddington might be thinking hey ho i'll go i'll go another round if it looks this good i i really
00:36:27.660 i'm not sure that that would happen that is an enormous but like i just don't i don't get
00:36:33.460 But if I hear that the juror is saying, wait a minute, is that is that happening right now, Debbie?
00:36:42.180 Wait a minute. Oh, OK. They're they're lining up to go back into the courtroom.
00:36:48.180 But this could just be the dismissal for the day. It doesn't necessarily mean the jury's doing anything.
00:36:53.200 But dismissal for the day would be interesting, too. I mean, it would mean they're not close and they're not like, give us 10 more minutes.
00:36:58.000 we're on the verge. But if the note is a juror's, can you read it again, Ashley? Sorry,
00:37:04.900 I don't have it in front of me. Yeah, let me jump back to it. Okay, the court has an instruction
00:37:10.880 from the foreperson saying there is one juror, and this is not verbatim of the note, this is a
00:37:15.020 description of the happenings. Court has an instruction from the foreperson saying there
00:37:20.480 is one juror that refuses to listen to the law on reasonable doubt. And then, of course, that was
00:37:27.920 uh, followed by the judge reading an instruction on reasonable doubt. And the judge said,
00:37:33.360 so why, why, why couldn't it be? I'm, I'm the holdout and I don't want to find her guilty of
00:37:42.040 anything. I want to find her not guilty by reason of mental defect. And all the other jurors are
00:37:48.420 saying to me, um, no, you shouldn't do that because she's guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:37:55.900 And I say, no, she isn't. I have a reasonable doubt. I don't see why we're leaping, starting
00:38:03.280 with Kevin Reddington, to it's 11 to 1 in the defense's favor. I'm trying to listen. Am I just
00:38:08.940 too dense to get it? I don't get it. No, I think we're doing that because we all watch the trial
00:38:12.360 and we watch these prosecutors who are not ready for primetime, Megan, and then you get into
00:38:16.940 Massachusetts law and it's so amorphous. It's so big. And I'm so glad that I never had to prosecute
00:38:22.760 cases they're reading this stuff and i think that's why people are jumping to that because
00:38:26.820 they were outclassed by the defense attorney from the opening statement on and he and i think that's
00:38:33.580 why everybody is jumping to that but you're but you're right we never know in a situation like
00:38:37.700 this and it could be again it could be between the vol and and something else but um yeah uh i i
00:38:44.780 wasn't impressed with anybody's closing argument in this if that's not clear enough so i think this
00:38:48.880 jury is kind of on their own. You and I spoke about this. We keep saying we spoke last night
00:38:54.520 on my podcast. Let's be clear. Yes. Right. Well, it's fine to talk socially, too. I know.
00:39:01.620 Just in case there's people out there that want to go conspiracy theory. But I think what critical
00:39:06.100 is that and listen, I'm not a litigator, but I think you do get a pretty solid vibe after five,
00:39:11.680 six weeks in a courtroom of what jurors are more sensitive to your position. Many of them will make
00:39:16.000 eye contact with you, not make eye contact with your defendant, or yes, make eye contact with
00:39:20.460 your defendant. And so perhaps that's the vibe that Kevin Reddington and the metric.
00:39:24.360 Today, there's at least one report, I think it was from, was it Lauren Conlon? Somebody reported
00:39:29.000 that not one juror, no, it was justice served, jury in, not one looked at Lindsey Clancy for
00:39:36.100 today, whatever that means. Keep going. No, that's significant. But for whatever his reason,
00:39:41.000 Kevin Reddington is no dummy, right? Whatever his reason is to want that juror bounced,
00:39:45.360 He's got a solid vibe, which he has amassed over the last five, six weeks of who's who.
00:39:50.820 And I think he probably feels like he's got multiple people on that jury in his pocket.
00:39:54.820 And if there's only one, that person ain't.
00:39:58.540 Mm hmm.
00:39:59.300 I know that you have to run, Ashley, as do you, Matt.
00:40:03.420 Coincidence?
00:40:04.480 No, I'm just kidding.
00:40:06.080 This is how rumors get started, Megan.
00:40:10.900 The jury is also leaving.
00:40:13.000 And I'm in Canada on an island.
00:40:14.420 It could be. So she claims. Allegedly, reportedly. But you're in good company because the jury is also leaving.
00:40:25.440 So we will have no verdict nor any declaration of a mistrial today.
00:40:29.860 All the action is now over inside that courtroom for today, Thursday, September 3rd.
00:40:35.820 It will resume tomorrow. The court is in session, even though we're going into Labor Day weekend.
00:40:40.100 So Matt, goodbye, Ashley. You as well. We're going to be joined by Johnna Spilboer.
00:40:44.420 And Dave Ehrenberg, who had dropped his back with us, too, in a second, I think.
00:40:48.120 Jonna, your reaction to the drama going on in this court today?
00:40:52.100 Well, at the risk of getting continually clobbered by your audience, Megan, because they don't like my position on this case.
00:41:00.060 They love you. They don't like Mark Eiglert, but they love you.
00:41:03.460 I don't. I have an opposite approach. Here's my theory why Kevin Reddington was acting all pissed off.
00:41:09.560 He is putting on a dog and pony show. He wants the world to think this lone holdout is in his
00:41:16.520 favor. So he slams his papers on the table. We have no idea whether this one holdout is
00:41:22.500 prosecution. We have no clue. But but if we go by his face and his reaction, we're all going to
00:41:30.600 think that it's in his favor. Yet we do not know. So this is part of his dog and pony show.
00:41:36.120 And I'm going to wait and see. This could easily be pro prosecution. And the fact that the jurors, according to Ashley, who just left, didn't look at Lindsay Clancy today or I'm sorry, you were according to me, not me, but to somebody called Justice Served, who's been covering the court.
00:41:51.120 That is very important. Having having done this a million times before, when the jury does not look at your client, you're in trouble. So there you have it.
00:42:00.360 That's I like I'm trying not to be obtuse, but if the if the note from the foreman read to the effect of we haven't heard the exact one juror refuses to listen to the law on reasonable doubt.
00:42:15.020 That does not tell us in which way it could be somebody sitting there saying, I have a reasonable doubt.
00:42:22.260 That's all I'm going to I'm not voting to convict.
00:42:24.620 I have a reasonable doubt. And all the 11 are saying, how could you possibly have a reasonable doubt, which would be acting by Kevin Reddington if that's what's actually happening? And he knows that. He doesn't know any more than we know. The judge wouldn't have told him. The jury hasn't told the judge or the courtroom more than what's in that note, because all communications from the jury, we get to know Dave Ehrenberg. I mean, I guess in that Q&A, that would have been on the record.
00:42:50.580 But the judge right now doesn't know which juror, does he or or which way the juror is pushing?
00:42:56.920 No, no. The judge and the parties would not. But why would Kevin Reddington lie about it?
00:43:02.540 Like, why would he put on an act? Because eventually we will know the count.
00:43:06.960 I know the judge is not allowed to ask, but jurors will talk.
00:43:10.900 Well, wait. But let me just let me just quickly say, because he doesn't know he does.
00:43:16.540 So you shouldn't walk away from his behavior saying he knows he doesn't know.
00:43:20.160 He hasn't been told. So he's gleaning. So he had to make a decision in the moment.
00:43:27.920 What to do? Do I what do I actually think? And it might be he actually thinks this that the 11 are for him and the holdout is for the prosecution and he wants that juror gone.
00:43:40.180 Or it could be that's just the way he's going to play it. I don't know. I guess I don't think it's acting.
00:43:46.300 I guess I don't know if it's acting because he argued that the juror should be bounced.
00:43:51.580 So if he thought the juror was for him.
00:43:54.240 Well, but that's it.
00:43:55.260 He is taking a position.
00:43:56.760 But wow, what if he, since he doesn't know, demanded that juror be bounced and the juror got bounced.
00:44:03.040 He got his wish.
00:44:04.020 And then it's a guilty verdict.
00:44:05.240 I mean, that's a dangerous thing.
00:44:08.780 I got a thought.
00:44:10.820 You know, we may not.
00:44:12.720 We don't know what Reddington knows.
00:44:14.480 and let's not forget, there was a very long sidebar before the jury came back in and before
00:44:20.640 the judge started speaking in a way that we could all hear it. They talked at the bench for
00:44:25.960 several minutes before they brought the jurors up one by one. We don't know what was said. And so
00:44:31.740 we don't, we're making an assumption that that's all the note said. We don't really know what the
00:44:37.120 note said. It may have said more. Reddington might know a lot more about what's going on in that jury
00:44:42.300 room than we do right here. We're just kind of reading the tea leaves based on what we've seen
00:44:46.280 discussed in open court, but we weren't privy to what happened at that sidebar. So if you put that
00:44:52.840 together with Reddington and John, I don't think he's acting. I think he really did want that
00:44:59.220 juror gone because there's now reporting from the courtroom that the prosecutors are very emotional,
00:45:08.180 almost in tears and looking very defeated as well. So something, there's more to this than we
00:45:14.540 know. There's something that was said at that sidebar, I think, that caused Reddington to be
00:45:20.120 so firm and secure in his position. He really thinks that it's going his way. That's just me
00:45:26.140 reading the tea leaves, remembering that there was an extended sidebar discussion, and we just
00:45:32.240 don't know what was said. Well, then why didn't the prosecution say, you know what, Judge, don't
00:45:37.120 do anything with this juror declare a sidebar they're telling you that they can't come to a
00:45:40.700 i mean declare a mistrial i can't tell you why the prosecutors did anything they did in this case
00:45:45.280 because they they didn't do a very good job at least in in throughout the trial so and how do
00:45:50.140 we know it's 11-1 couldn't it just be one obstreperous juror and still they can't come
00:45:55.420 to an agreement doesn't have to be 11-1 does it could be we don't we don't know um no we don't
00:46:01.780 know but that's the the joke it was from what that judge said that i that i was just reading
00:46:10.160 the judge mentioned siding with 11 or siding with one so that that comes from the judge um he could
00:46:17.220 be speaking hypothetically all right i mean we don't lots of posts on x right now from people
00:46:22.260 in the courtroom saying that it's 11 to 1 uh again but you know they haven't seen the note either i
00:46:28.300 guess. I'm just trying to get to go back to the exact quote from the judge, which my team is
00:46:36.580 going to have to send me. I can't find it now. But yeah, I object to the court's ruling, said
00:46:41.540 Kevin Reddington, after the judge ruled that the current members of the jury should continue
00:46:47.160 deliberations. And then he claimed one juror refuses to listen to the law. Hold on a second.
00:46:53.480 Here is what the judge said.
00:46:58.480 It's not appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror, comma, or 11, says the judge, insinuating that there's an 11-1 holdout issue here.
00:47:09.040 So you're right.
00:47:10.120 He didn't say in those words there's only one holdout, but he said it's not appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or 11.
00:47:18.700 So it certainly appears that there is a split on an issue between 11 versus 1, and we glean from the fact that the judge read the reasonable doubt instructions that it was over that issue.
00:47:33.320 And indeed, there was also this reporting from, again, this Christina Rex, Reddington argued in open court that, quote, the court has an instruction from the foreperson saying there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you've given him or her on reasonable doubt, on reasonable doubt.
00:47:54.100 So that's so it's pretty good, pretty good math that it's 11 to one right now and that that's the issue they're arguing over.
00:48:03.320 Yeah, I agree. And that seems to be that's consistent with all the other posts and tweets that are coming out of the courtroom.
00:48:10.600 And Reddington, let's just remember, he knows this case inside and out.
00:48:17.200 He's lived this case for years. He's lived this case for the month long of this trial, but for years he has lived this case.
00:48:24.540 And so he knows it in his bones.
00:48:26.460 And so his instincts are telling him that that juror, that one juror, is not following the law on reasonable doubt.
00:48:33.840 I suspect that what we're seeing is Reddington is aware that he believes he has 11 people who have said, you know, there's reasonable doubt.
00:48:43.760 And by the way, the law is skewed in the defense favor on this in the state of Massachusetts on the issue of insanity.
00:48:51.220 So he thinks that the wind is at his back.
00:48:53.600 He thinks that he's got those 11 jurors and that there's one back there who's just saying, look, I'm not going to vote under any circumstances to acquit her.
00:49:03.100 I don't care what the judge says or something like that.
00:49:05.200 That's what I envision going on back in the jury room, Megan.
00:49:08.380 I think that we'll see more progress maybe tomorrow.
00:49:11.920 If it truly is 11 to 1, they might be able to pull that juror on their side.
00:49:15.680 But if they don't do it quickly and that juror is as stubborn as Reddington has said that they are, they may they may tell the judge tomorrow morning or very soon that they are, in fact, stuck 11 to 1.
00:49:27.500 All right. Stand by. Let's take a look inside the courtroom.
00:49:29.840 We're told that the jury was being dismissed, but there is action inside the courtroom.
00:49:32.920 I think it could just be the goodbye. Let's let's watch.
00:49:37.180 We have 12 deliberating jurors and six alternates in the matter.
00:49:42.200 Our Commonwealth versus Lindsey Clancy.
00:49:43.900 All of the parties are present.
00:49:45.660 All right.
00:49:46.320 All right.
00:49:46.860 Well, good afternoon, everybody.
00:49:48.280 What I'm going to do is excuse you until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
00:49:53.020 All right?
00:49:53.760 And then I'll speak to you at that point tomorrow morning.
00:49:58.140 So remember the instructions that I've given you over and over again.
00:50:02.940 Stay away from any coverage about this.
00:50:05.080 Don't talk about this case.
00:50:07.160 And I will see everybody tomorrow morning.
00:50:09.700 Okay?
00:50:10.620 All rise.
00:50:11.760 they're adjourned uh couldn't glean anything from their faces lindsey clancy's face always looks
00:50:19.780 grim as it should be um kevin reddington stone face there nothing from the prosecution
00:50:26.260 so they're gone they're they're being dismissed until tomorrow morning showing back up at nine
00:50:30.720 i mean my own guess is by 10 we're gonna have something that they're they're either gonna say
00:50:36.540 because they already went back in there
00:50:38.760 after the judge interviewed each juror one by one.
00:50:41.880 So it's possible, it's possible
00:50:43.740 they could come back in first thing or by 10
00:50:46.180 and say that person is still obstreperous
00:50:49.220 and will not listen to the law
00:50:50.680 and the person gets bounced, they go back in there.
00:50:52.860 But I'm just gonna guess that instead they come back out
00:50:56.640 and say hopelessly deadlacked by, you know,
00:50:58.760 before noon tomorrow.
00:50:59.860 I don't know.
00:51:00.580 They could bend the juror to their will,
00:51:02.120 but whoever it is is very strong
00:51:04.220 because we are, what, 36 hours into deliberations now and they haven't bent and they've had multiple
00:51:11.320 charges by the judge. You know, Jonna, this this person doesn't seem like they're going to bend
00:51:16.280 whatever their verdict is. This is true. And we've had a couple of opportunities to call it quits
00:51:21.520 without a verdict. And that didn't happen. So the tone and the tenor and the temperature in that
00:51:27.460 entire courtroom, I know everybody is on edge. Nobody wants to let this trial go without coming
00:51:32.540 to a verdict either way but i i can't help but go back to and look i'm not trying to be hyper
00:51:38.300 critical of kevin rennington i think he did a fine job in this case but throwing your papers on on
00:51:43.300 the table and getting angry is for the cameras and he will have preserved this issue on appeal
00:51:48.860 if in fact he loses this case and and there will be an appeal if he does for sure um so i i just
00:51:55.100 I'm not convinced that the one holdout is a pro defense holdout.
00:52:01.720 I mean, I or the other way.
00:52:03.740 I'm not convinced that this is going to go Kevin Reddington's way on this.
00:52:07.740 And I think that's why I'm saying I'm not calling him a liar.
00:52:10.300 I'm calling him a esteemed posturer in this case because he doesn't know.
00:52:15.580 We don't know.
00:52:16.340 And when the jury doesn't look at your client, you guys, you both know if the jurors aren't
00:52:20.360 looking at Lindsey Clancy, what does that tell you?
00:52:25.100 What do you think, Dave?
00:52:26.780 I think it's amazing.
00:52:27.820 I didn't know that there were six alternate jurors hanging around the courtroom.
00:52:31.320 What do they do all day?
00:52:32.340 They're not allowed to be in there.
00:52:33.820 They're waiting for the Scott Peterson situation.
00:52:36.300 They are, but it's different than in Florida, where if you dismiss one, those alternate
00:52:40.040 jurors are home and they're done.
00:52:42.160 In Massachusetts, they go to a separate room and do what?
00:52:45.540 I don't know.
00:52:46.040 They wait until...
00:52:46.960 That's what they do in California, too.
00:52:48.200 Interesting.
00:52:48.780 Interesting.
00:52:49.160 They're in the courtroom.
00:52:50.100 They are.
00:52:50.840 I'm sure they're in a separate room, but they have to come into the courtroom for everything
00:52:53.980 that happens.
00:52:54.600 So that's why they're brought in.
00:52:56.120 And then just FYI, if a juror gets replaced by an alternate, the jury has to start all over again.
00:53:08.800 They will be instructed to start at square one because all 12 of the jurors need to be on board with the verdict and the process.
00:53:17.260 And this alternate, if they get subbed in, will not have heard one word of deliberations.
00:53:22.740 The alternates are at the courthouse, but they're not in the jury room.
00:53:26.220 That's only for the 12 jurors.
00:53:28.380 And you don't you have to start all over again if that were to happen.
00:53:32.100 They sit in a separate room all day, every day, as long as they've been deliberating, apart from the regular jurors.
00:53:38.140 And I guess I don't know.
00:53:39.380 They're allowed to watch TV, I guess, all day.
00:53:41.860 It's crazy, but not the news.
00:53:44.420 So I don't I just don't know if and I love John.
00:53:47.900 And she's she's so smart.
00:53:48.940 I just don't know if it was I think Reddington is being sincere.
00:53:52.360 I think really he believes that that juror is against him and he's got it.
00:53:57.520 11-1, let's get this juror off, and the judge refused to do so.
00:54:01.720 So I don't think it's an act or playing to the cameras.
00:54:05.080 I think that's who this guy is.
00:54:06.580 Dave, why did they have Lindsey Clancy come up to the bench?
00:54:11.580 Her lawyer was there.
00:54:13.040 Her lawyer was representing her.
00:54:15.280 Why did she have to come?
00:54:16.880 This is a guess.
00:54:17.840 Obviously, we don't know the answer.
00:54:19.800 Because the judge was making some substantive decisions up there.
00:54:24.060 Hold on, Phil, you already answered this one.
00:54:26.380 There is a reason I asked this of Dave.
00:54:27.920 You go, Dave.
00:54:29.100 You have a thought.
00:54:30.500 Isn't that it?
00:54:32.180 It's a substantive thing.
00:54:33.540 These are substantive decisions that he's making,
00:54:35.940 and she probably wants to be up there.
00:54:38.940 I would think so.
00:54:39.780 Am I missing something here?
00:54:42.260 You were right, Phil.
00:54:43.300 Dave had nothing useful to say.
00:54:45.260 Well, that's not true.
00:54:46.840 That's not true.
00:54:47.480 I want to point out our colleague, our MK True Crime colleague, Ashley Merchant, posted on Twitter, what if the Clancy jury holdout is the guilty vote?
00:54:55.460 That would explain why the defense, Reddington, wants a verdict from the other jurors and doesn't want this jury forced back into deliberations again.
00:55:02.880 And I think it's just that simple.
00:55:04.200 Well, yeah.
00:55:04.920 I think it's just that simple.
00:55:05.960 I mean, yeah, we've been debating that.
00:55:07.860 That seems to be what at least Kevin wants us to believe and what Kevin believes.
00:55:12.060 I think Kevin does believe that because it would be really reckless to argue, bounce the juror, bounce the juror, if you thought secretly it was a jury for you, a juror for you.
00:55:22.000 I mean, that would be incredibly stupid.
00:55:23.680 After all that effort, he would like to win this case.
00:55:26.520 So, yeah, it could be.
00:55:28.680 It definitely could be.
00:55:29.580 But what we need the audience to understand is we don't think Kevin knows.
00:55:34.400 We think Kevin is gleaning, just like we're gleaning from Kevin's behavior.
00:55:39.000 But there's what we're gleaning and there's what we know. And all we know for sure is the judge called them in there. He instructed them, began with, you are required to follow my instructions on the law. I want to go over my instructions on reasonable doubt.
00:55:56.760 and then did that and that we understand the note from the foreman read to the effect of
00:56:04.320 one juror refuses to listen to the law on reasonable doubt does kevin know more did
00:56:09.560 the judge expand does even the judge know more these are things we we have no idea about so
00:56:15.220 yeah go ahead no i was going to say the note likely did not say hey judge 11 of us want to
00:56:23.000 acquit and only one of us want to convict, what should we do? Right. I don't think the note said
00:56:28.300 that it was much more nebulous than that, which is why to assume that we know the division is
00:56:35.760 just something that we really can't hang our hats on because the instruction that he came back and
00:56:40.360 gave them the reasonable doubt instruction could go either way, depending on what the content of
00:56:47.440 this note is. And I think if the content of the note was, you know, vague, that's probably smart
00:56:54.340 on the foreman's part. Right. But and it sounds like the note was vague. Why can't the juror be
00:57:00.360 saying, Jonna, I have a reasonable doubt. I have a reasonable doubt. I don't believe she should be
00:57:07.280 held responsible. I have a reasonable doubt and I'm not voting for any of those charges. Murder
00:57:12.400 one murder two or manslaughter i'm not doing and what and why can't it be the other 11 are saying
00:57:18.100 you have a doubt but it's not reasonable exactly the prosecution didn't have to prove this prove
00:57:23.600 this case beyond all doubt just beyond all reasonable doubt and this juror is saying
00:57:29.260 well they didn't and and why couldn't that be the scenario dave's well yeah it could be yeah but but
00:57:36.200 i think it's more something like i don't care what the evidence says i just feel it in my gut that
00:57:41.460 she's guilty and needs to go to prison i mean there could be something like that and the other
00:57:45.340 jurors said no that's not a good enough reason let's go back to the judge i love the dramatic
00:57:50.980 reenactment i do i we can't see inside the deliberation room so this is the best we're
00:57:57.200 going to get is is that yeah this is how i feel um i don't know i get like let's just play it out
00:58:05.240 the other way because i'm just trying to find the follow the reasoning to see if we can figure it
00:58:08.220 out. If you are, if you've got 11 who want to find her not guilty by reason of mental defect,
00:58:14.960 and you've got the one juror saying, I think she's guilty.
00:58:23.400 Would that boil down to a debate over reasonable doubt? Like, I think this is why I'm stuck. And
00:58:30.380 maybe John has stuck with me on the very real possibility that the 11 are pro-prosecution,
00:58:37.360 Because if the holdout is holding out over the law, refusing to listen to the law on reasonable doubt, if the law on reasonable doubt is what's controlling in there, then haven't they moved beyond mental defect?
00:58:56.760 Like the only reason you'd be, yes, don't shake your head.
00:59:01.540 Listen, the only reason you'd be talking about reasonable doubt, I think, is if you are going through guilt or innocence on murder one, murder two or voluntary manslaughter.
00:59:17.440 If you get in there and you say, raise your hand who thinks she's not guilty by reason of mental defect, is that a reasonable doubt issue?
00:59:30.000 That's a really great question.
00:59:31.540 Aha! Aha! Now I've given you something to think about Phelps.
00:59:35.240 No, I think it is a reasonable doubt issue, and here's why.
00:59:38.940 The judge told the jury, and the lawyers kind of did, and Reddington kind of did in his clothes, although not very well.
00:59:46.740 He told the jury that under the law in Massachusetts, once this issue of not guilty by reason, once this gets into the case, the prosecutor bears the burden of disproving it beyond a reasonable doubt.
01:00:00.440 In other words, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she did know right from wrong and that she was, you know, mentally competent at the time.
01:00:09.220 OK, so that's what that's why I think this whole thing about reasonable doubt is that they are still on the insanity part.
01:00:17.160 They are not able to unanimously decide if the prosecutor has carried their burden of disproving the affirmative defense beyond a reasonable doubt.
01:00:26.960 I don't, that's how I read it. I don't think they are at the, any other questions about any of the
01:00:31.700 other charges yet, because I think 11 of them believe that the, the prosecution has not proven
01:00:38.600 their case beyond a reasonable doubt. How many times have we seen cases, regular cases that did
01:00:42.800 not involve insanity defenses where the jury says, you know what, I think your client did it,
01:00:48.080 but the prosecutor just didn't prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. We think that there
01:00:53.360 is a doubt for which a reason can be attached and that would explain because because the prosecution
01:00:58.300 needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she's not suffering from a mental disease or defect
01:01:04.740 that would have excused the conduct yeah i think that's where they are i think i think they are i
01:01:11.480 think the jury we don't have the one of the reasons that we need to explain this is we don't
01:01:15.460 have the the verdict form like that we looked we were not able to retrieve that from the court or
01:01:20.500 So we are not able to see the logic tree that would be spelled out for the jurors in making their decision, which it will be a logic tree like, do you find this? Yes or no? Only if you click yes to this should you go on to the next question. So we're all still gleaning.
01:01:36.500 But here's what the Boston Globe has responded as reported on what the jury must decide to determine criminal responsibility.
01:01:45.660 First, whether Lindsay Clancy was suffering from a mental disease or defect at the time of the killings, if they say, yes, she was, then they must consider two additional points.
01:01:57.320 Did that mental illness render her unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions or unable to conform her conduct to the law?
01:02:06.500 Right. The burdens on the prosecution to convince the jurors that neither of those scenarios applies.
01:02:13.900 And then they have to let's say if they agree with the prosecution that she was that she was not suffering from a mental disease or defect to the point that she was unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of her decisions, her actions, then they're going to have to choose her level of culpability.
01:02:35.300 first degree, second degree, manslaughter, and all of those would have to be beyond a reasonable
01:02:39.800 doubt. So I guess we don't know for sure. If they have to prove her not suffering from mental
01:02:48.000 disease or defect beyond a reasonable doubt, then they could be stuck right there. Then the holdout
01:02:52.340 could be still right there. I don't know. I don't know. We don't know anything. Have we determined
01:02:57.040 we know nothing? Nothing. We know absolutely nothing. But we're good at speculating.
01:02:59.820 You know, but can we also speculate, Megan, when the judge came back and read the reasonable doubt
01:03:04.860 instruction just i don't know half hour ago 20 minutes ago whenever it was i thought i heard him
01:03:09.600 i was listening i thought i heard him emphasize you know the word beyond all doubt like that's
01:03:14.920 what you do when you're when you're a prosecutor you're trying to convince a jury that they don't
01:03:19.120 have to find that it that it's beyond all doubt just has to be beyond reasonable doubt and when
01:03:24.960 he when he puts the inflection on that uh word it tells me that it could be a pro prosecution
01:03:32.820 jury right now.
01:03:36.280 But I don't know if we can listen back to that.
01:03:38.700 I think you're wrong.
01:03:39.480 And it could be for the compromised lesser charge.
01:03:41.820 That's another possibility where they've acquitted on first degree and second degree
01:03:45.280 murder and just have to debate over the manslaughter charge.
01:03:49.100 So that's a possibility, too.
01:03:50.780 I think there's 11 of them back there.
01:03:52.040 And again, though, we don't know whether the judge knows more than we do.
01:03:55.440 Like, it's not.
01:03:56.700 I think a lot of the times people assume that the judge has been given the inside scoop
01:04:00.740 on what's happening in the jury room.
01:04:02.520 and he normally isn't that's he normally is relegated to the same notes the lawyers are
01:04:08.280 that's good because sometimes if the judge knows more they tip it off you know they can give it
01:04:13.940 away by something they say uh some something to emphasize for example in the jury instruction so
01:04:19.280 beyond all doubt right the emphasis on the other syllable we should i want to hear that again
01:04:24.400 well do we have that cut did we cut anything but jonna if if the judge puts the emphasis
01:04:30.140 on that syllable, isn't it also equally plausible that you have 11 of them back there saying, look,
01:04:36.480 I think she may very well have known right from wrong, but there's reasonable doubt. I'm not 100%
01:04:42.480 convinced that the prosecutor has carried their burden of disproving the affirmative defense.
01:04:47.440 So therefore, the judge said, if I have a reasonable doubt, I shall vote not guilty by
01:04:52.760 reason of insanity. That's also in the instructions. Isn't it also plausible that 11 of them are back
01:04:57.560 there saying, look, I think she's, she's probably guilty, but we have this doubt and it hasn't been
01:05:04.040 disproved by the prosecutor. Therefore they haven't, you know, we can't even get to the
01:05:08.100 other accounts because we're, we're, we believe 11 or so to one that the affirmative defense has
01:05:14.760 not been disproven by the prosecutor. I think that's equally plausible. Well, but we do believe
01:05:20.900 that. Yeah, go ahead. Anything is equally plausible. And let's consider the amount of time
01:05:25.800 this jury has been out and debating with zero questions, but for the second day of deliberations
01:05:32.060 when they want to look at those two pieces of evidence. Other than that, you guys, it's been
01:05:35.940 radio silence. So what are they doing back there? What is the debate? Is the debate on whether she
01:05:43.460 was mentally ill? Because the prosecution conceded that. We all concede that she was mentally ill.
01:05:48.780 So where are they stuck? Are they stuck on, you know, the first prong or the fourth prong? That's that's what we none of us knows.
01:05:58.460 And they can speak to us after this is all said and done. I mean, at some point we'll we'll likely know it's up to them.
01:06:08.080 I do want to play. Here's what we have. The first let's listening to the full Kevin Reddington, because we missed the top of it when we were watching this earlier.
01:06:15.400 here's what he said to the court. Thank you, Your Honor. I appreciate that. I appreciate the
01:06:21.960 fact, Your Honor, that you're allowing us to be heard in public rather than at the sidebar.
01:06:25.940 The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that juror that's been working for a week now
01:06:32.520 saying that there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you've given him or her
01:06:39.320 on reasonable doubt, and I suggest respectfully that the soft instruction that you gave them
01:06:46.280 saying at the sidebar, can you listen to the law as I instruct you, does not focus on the issue.
01:06:53.560 It is the question is not sufficient enough. It does not allow any foundation for a motion to
01:07:00.580 remove the juror who refuses to accept your instructions on the law, on reasonable doubt.
01:07:07.440 and if we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a because of a juror that
01:07:13.380 has just spurned the instructions of this court it's a shame it's a real shame and that's why
01:07:19.780 i object to the court's ruling i request that we have further inquiry i request that we my motion
01:07:25.920 is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt
01:07:30.480 so there you have it his characterization of the note which tracks what we were reporting earlier
01:07:39.220 and the soft instruction you gave to the jury does not focus on the issue enough suggesting
01:07:46.780 it doesn't create a foundation from which to appeal if this thing goes forward um and now
01:07:52.000 let's take a look do we have the judge um on the instructions let's listen to the judge here
01:07:56.900 Good afternoon, everyone. I just wanted to go over a couple things this afternoon. First off, I want to remind you that you are required to follow my instructions on the law as I gave them to you.
01:08:11.640 Alright? I also want to, at this point, go over the instruction that I gave you about reasonable doubt.
01:08:20.280 Alright? And so, reasonable doubt.
01:08:23.640 The burden is on the Commonwealth to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the charges made against her.
01:08:31.320 What is proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
01:08:33.820 Well, the term is often used and probably pretty well understood, though it's not easily defined.
01:08:39.660 Proof beyond a reasonable doubt does not mean proof beyond all possible doubt.
01:08:43.780 For everything in the lives of human beings is open to some possible or imaginary doubt.
01:08:49.580 The charge is proved beyond a reasonable doubt if, after you've compared and considered all of the evidence,
01:08:56.140 you have in your minds an abiding conviction to a moral certainty that the charge is true.
01:09:02.260 When we refer to moral certainty, we mean the highest degree of certainty possible
01:09:07.680 in matters relating to human affairs, based solely on the evidence that has been put before you in this case.
01:09:15.580 I've told you that every person is presumed to be innocent until they are proved guilty,
01:09:21.060 and that the burden of proof is on the prosecutor.
01:09:23.920 If you evaluate all the evidence and you still have a reasonable doubt remaining,
01:09:28.300 the defendant is entitled to the benefit of that doubt and must be acquitted. It's not enough for
01:09:35.780 the Commonwealth to establish a probability, even a strong probability, that the defendant is more
01:09:41.400 likely to be guilty than not guilty. That is not enough. Instead, the evidence must convince you
01:09:49.180 of the defendant's guilt to a reasonable and moral certainty, a certainty that convinces your
01:09:54.840 understanding and satisfies your reason and judgment as jurors who are sworn to act conscientiously
01:10:01.700 on the evidence. This is what we mean by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. All right. And with
01:10:08.880 that, I'm going to ask you to resume your deliberations. All right. Well, there it is.
01:10:18.480 He says, does it beyond a reasonable doubt does not mean beyond all possible doubt.
01:10:23.620 He did emphasize that.
01:10:25.320 But he also emphasized the probability part that it's not enough for a prosecutor just to make it more probable.
01:10:31.420 It's got to be beyond that.
01:10:32.680 So that gives both sides something to lean on right there.
01:10:37.040 And the business of beyond a moral certainty.
01:10:39.680 I mean, that's that's that's pretty good for the defense.
01:10:43.900 That's definitely what you want to hear.
01:10:44.920 Now here, um, lawyer online, Carol Erskine, uh, she, she's reporting retired judge, I should say. Uh, she's reporting some interesting facts about the law, uh, following post. What happens when jurors say another juror is refusing to follow the law? U.S. v. Thomas, second circuit, 1997, highly relevant. She says here, um, okay, Thomas draws a critical line.
01:11:09.540 this case. A juror who refuses to follow the law is very different from a juror who follows the law
01:11:15.200 but disagrees with the other 11 about what the evidence proves. The court set an extraordinarily
01:11:20.820 high bar for removing a juror. There must be no doubt that the juror is refusing to apply the law
01:11:28.100 rather than simply reaching a different conclusion about the evidence. It makes perfect sense,
01:11:34.080 of course. She goes on to say that the Massachusetts case that addresses this issue
01:11:38.480 in Thomas says the same, that when a jury reports a juror is refusing to deliberate,
01:11:47.560 it requires a careful judicial inquiry, but it does not automatically justify removing the juror.
01:11:54.880 A judge must be extremely cautious not to intrude into deliberations. A juror cannot be removed
01:12:00.080 simply because the juror disagrees with the others or views the evidence differently or
01:12:04.940 may be the loan holdout. As the previous court warned, removing a deliberating juror is a
01:12:12.380 sensitive undertaking fraught with the potential for error. In short, refusing to deliberate and
01:12:17.920 refusing to agree are not the same thing. So this is what the judge was dealing with today,
01:12:24.660 trying to figure out whether he's got somebody who's not following his instructions on the law,
01:12:29.960 who won't listen to them and come up with a verdict accordingly, or he's got somebody who
01:12:37.440 is listening to his definition of the law, but just doesn't see it the same way, the conclusion,
01:12:44.600 as the other 11. The latter scenario is entirely proper, appropriate, and that juror should not
01:12:49.820 be touched. The former would be grounds to bounce the juror, and everything about this case lies in
01:12:57.780 the ballots of which one that juror is doing so what what changed between hey judge we're dead
01:13:07.420 locked number one and then hey judge we're dead locked number two and now oh well we're not going
01:13:14.420 to say we're dead locked we're going to say that we have uh maybe one juror who's not following
01:13:20.460 the law like what what is the difference between we're dead locked and now we have one juror who's
01:13:25.120 not following the law well you know the difference is that in between those two things you had the
01:13:29.320 two e rodriguez instruction and perhaps that instruction really did jar some people loose
01:13:33.760 onto the majority side the so-called dynamite charge where um it's it's basically telling
01:13:41.260 the jury no jury will ever be smarter than you or better informed than you or better qualified than
01:13:48.240 you to decide this case so it's basically begging it's like you guys are great you're the best
01:13:53.740 please don't leave this for another 12 people you can do this i don't know i think you know
01:13:59.780 to quote jurassic park life finds a way um i think it's they they were like this person is annoying
01:14:07.600 that we could have a verdict and go home if it weren't for bob or jane over there
01:14:14.100 and maybe we can get rid of bob or jane by saying they won't follow the law we're all following the
01:14:20.680 law. That's how we got to this conclusion that the 11 of us agree on and annoying Bob or Jane over
01:14:25.780 there. Well, if they would just listen to what we're telling them about reasonable doubt in the
01:14:29.780 standards, we'd be out of here. So they turned it, I think, into a complaint about that 12th juror,
01:14:35.780 as opposed to just saying we disagree, which is where they've been all week. And the judge keeps
01:14:40.500 telling them that's not good enough. Yeah, I think you're right. I think that's exactly what's going
01:14:44.420 on. And look, these folks have all been working for over a month now on this. And so they don't
01:14:49.860 want it to be for nothing either. They would like their collective body to reach a verdict.
01:14:57.560 They don't want this case to have to be retried either, although it won't be them.
01:15:02.260 I think you hit the nail on the head. I think that there are 11 people who maybe have a reasonable
01:15:09.060 doubt about something, and that's what the judge's instruction was about, was reasonable doubt. So
01:15:14.660 that's what they're hung up on. I think there's 11 that have a reasonable doubt, and I think
01:15:19.420 there's one that doesn't and the 11 are tired of debating it in the jury room. So they're going to
01:15:24.800 the judge to see if the judge can help them because they too realize that there are six other
01:15:30.220 individuals that are standing by as alternates that the judge could put on there. They think
01:15:35.480 that if they could just get one more person that thinks like them, they could reach a verdict and
01:15:39.520 they'll go home. That's what I think is happening. Yeah. I mean, it is a good thing to remember that
01:15:45.940 even though the judge said, it's not for me to take sides on the side of one juror versus the
01:15:53.600 11. And the note, as reiterated by Kevin Reddington said, there's one juror who refuses to listen to
01:16:04.260 the law on reasonable doubt. We don't have actual confirmation that it's 11 to one, but this is as
01:16:10.600 close as we're going to get. To me, that's as close. And I think we're probably safe saying
01:16:15.220 There's one holdout. Anyway, we'll see eventually how strong that person is, because at some point
01:16:20.960 they're going to have to come back with either a we couldn't reach a verdict or and in this case
01:16:26.100 is a mistrial or here's our verdict. And so last thing, if they declared a mistrial in this in this
01:16:32.300 case, if the judge does it tomorrow. Is there any doubt that the prosecution can refile against her
01:16:41.300 if it wants to, you know, the defense made a bunch of allegations in this case as it went on about
01:16:47.280 improprieties by the prosecution, things that she said that they thought were beyond the pale
01:16:52.360 and fairly prejudicial, this, that, the other. Can any of that, I'll ask you, Dave, as a former
01:16:56.780 prosecutor, be used to stop the prosecution from refiling charges? Reddington can try and try to
01:17:04.080 get a court to prohibit the state. That's really hard to do. The prosecutors have a lot of
01:17:08.660 discretion. And if the case goes to a mistrial here on all the charges, then they could refile
01:17:15.840 all of them. The biggest thing that would stop the state is not Reddington's threats. It's the
01:17:22.480 count. If the jury count is indeed 11 to 1, then I don't think they are going to refile this case.
01:17:29.320 Or if they do refile, they will seek a quick resolution. They're not going to want to try
01:17:34.540 the case again if they don't but if but if they don't refile it what happens to lindsey clancy
01:17:40.100 well i think what they would do when i say refile is that i think they would enter into an agreement
01:17:44.340 with defense counsel because she doesn't want to go through this so before filing they'll say here
01:17:49.060 let's cut a deal the other option is they file and then they cut a deal afterwards but i don't
01:17:54.160 see it going to another trial if it's 10 to 2 or 11 to 1 against the prosecution they could do a
01:18:00.960 stipulated bench trial. They could, they could have a stipulated bench trial where they file
01:18:05.340 charges and then they stipulate that she's not guilty by reason of insanity. And off she goes
01:18:10.440 to a mental institution for a very, very long time. Phil, question for you. Wasn't that,
01:18:16.200 didn't Kevin Reddington argue that if they had just not charged first degree, they could have
01:18:20.940 had a bench trial in this case? I feel like I'm remembering that. Yes, you guys remember this?
01:18:27.660 Yes, he did say that. But I think what Phil is talking about is not a bench trial. It's a stupid just like pleading up to the court almost, right?
01:18:33.820 Yeah, they can file the charge, and they want to guarantee that she just doesn't go back out on the street.
01:18:39.820 So hypothetically, if it's 11 to 1 against the prosecution, so if 11 people think that she is not guilty by a reason of insanity, then they have a lot of incentive to cut a deal.
01:18:50.760 So theoretically, the way it could work is they file some charge and they stipulate to the verdict and they just do a bench trial with a stipulated verdict.
01:18:59.700 They stipulate that she's not guilty by reason of insanity, guaranteeing that she doesn't go free, that she goes into the state mental system for people who are found not guilty by reason of insanity.
01:19:12.520 You know, I think that there's a chance, a small chance she could get out of that place in just a few years, but I don't think she likely would.
01:19:20.000 I think she likely would be seeing long-term incarceration, if you will, in a mental facility like John Hinckley, for example.
01:19:28.520 So I think she would be there for a very long time.
01:19:32.180 Here is what Kevin Reddington said this morning before this latest round of drama on the possibility of a mistrial.
01:19:40.800 Good morning, Mr. Reddington. How do you feel about the possibility of a mistrial?
01:19:44.780 Try it again.
01:19:46.300 What's your message for Lindsay if it is a mistrial?
01:19:48.820 I'll give it to her when I see her.
01:19:50.260 Is there anything you would do differently if there was a second trial?
01:19:52.800 I think I did the best I could.
01:19:54.500 How does she feel about the possibility of a second trial?
01:19:58.480 I don't talk about plans.
01:19:59.960 Do you think that there is any chance of a plea deal if there is a mistrial today?
01:20:03.960 You have to ask Mr. Cruz.
01:20:05.560 Would you be open to that? Would Lindsay be open to that?
01:20:07.880 We'll see what Mr. Cruz wants to do, and then we'll talk about our options.
01:20:11.400 I'm sure this has been excruciating for everybody involved.
01:20:13.880 How are you feeling? How are you doing?
01:20:15.460 Good. Fine. I mean, you know, the support has been great. You guys have been great.
01:20:21.200 I mean, look at the letters I have to deliver to her from all over the world. It's just amazing.
01:20:26.680 How does she feel about receiving all of that support?
01:20:29.480 I don't really get into it with her. It's private. She reads them all.
01:20:33.760 Some people say a second trial would favor the prosecution. What do you think about that?
01:20:37.480 Bring it. Excuse me.
01:20:40.080 Thank you.
01:20:40.580 What do you make of the fact that the jury hasn't asked a question who took for any clarification on the law?
01:20:49.980 I'm sorry?
01:20:50.740 What do you make of the fact that the jury hasn't asked any questions clarifying the law?
01:20:54.580 Because, that's a good question.
01:20:56.620 Judge Sullivan's instructions were thorough, and he gave them a copy of it.
01:21:01.160 They all have their own copy, so they're able to answer any questions that they have by looking at the instructions.
01:21:06.620 You said yesterday that you could be willing to retry this case next week.
01:21:10.980 Can you talk about that?
01:21:13.080 No, just bring it.
01:21:14.160 I mean, I got witnesses lined up.
01:21:15.800 We're all set.
01:21:16.540 You know, Dr. Resnick is ready.
01:21:17.880 I'm ready.
01:21:19.200 We've got all our evidence.
01:21:20.880 Witnesses are available.
01:21:21.940 So let's go.
01:21:22.740 Is that a timeline you would expect?
01:21:24.800 Oh, no.
01:21:25.200 They try to kick it off for six months or a year, but we're going to do it quick.
01:21:28.420 These are letters from all over the world in Puerto Rico?
01:21:31.040 Yeah, it's amazing.
01:21:31.860 Where do they come from?
01:21:33.360 You name the country.
01:21:35.760 hmm so interesting jana so bring it is what he said we could retry this case
01:21:41.440 next week but realistically that's not what he's gonna want if if this really is 11 to 1 in his
01:21:49.300 favor no that's true he's not gonna want that if it's 11 to 1 in his favor and if you know if you
01:21:55.660 guys can't look at that clip and think that this man is a master on how to uh you know mug for the
01:22:02.540 cameras and how to put out a vibe, for lack of a better word, of confidence in his case and his
01:22:08.900 client, which is great. You want that in an attorney, but that doesn't mean that it's odd,
01:22:14.520 that everything is working in actuality in his favor. Beak of the devil. Let's listen to him
01:22:20.820 outside the courthouse right now. By the judge tomorrow at nine o'clock. I don't know what his
01:22:25.180 question is going to be. We'll have an argument about it. I don't think it'll be at the sidebar.
01:22:30.400 I think it will be in open court, which is my concern that we have our arguments in open court, not at the sidebar.
01:22:37.920 So I expect that, and that's B-A-R, not B-A-H, okay?
01:22:42.940 Is this one person versus all the rest? Is this one person versus all the rest in the jury?
01:22:48.200 Is it one person holding this up?
01:22:49.820 Yeah, you've heard the question.
01:22:51.480 It's basically that there's a person who has doubt but will not listen to the judge's instruction.
01:22:57.000 Has everybody else agreed?
01:22:58.360 Are you like the only guy?
01:23:01.180 No, I'm just a loud note.
01:23:02.480 I'm from Brockton.
01:23:04.200 My last question, and I'll be quiet.
01:23:07.080 Did they tell you that all the rest of the jurors are going one way or the other?
01:23:11.780 Did they tell you that?
01:23:12.660 They don't tell me anything.
01:23:13.800 It's just a note.
01:23:14.640 Do you want a new juror, or do you want a mistrial?
01:23:19.020 I don't want a mistrial.
01:23:20.180 Why would I want a mistrial?
01:23:21.120 So do you want them to put a new juror in?
01:23:22.100 Kick the shit out of their case.
01:23:23.740 I don't want a mistrial.
01:23:24.560 Sir, do you want to write your motion in my RV?
01:23:27.160 Back up.
01:23:27.760 Kevin do you know which juror it is by the juror and the judge will identify the juror
01:23:47.460 tomorrow are the 11 in favor of not guilty by reason of insanity does Lindsay understand
01:23:54.240 what's going on when she's listening to all that?
01:23:57.040 I just make sure she's there
01:23:59.220 and understands what's going on.
01:24:01.420 What was her reaction when she found out about the whole wall?
01:24:03.640 Oh, God, okay, somebody down.
01:24:07.720 Oh, boy, someone fell down.
01:24:08.920 He heated up.
01:24:10.580 Wow.
01:24:13.800 He's glitching.
01:24:16.020 This is the full feed.
01:24:17.720 Because I just want an open court.
01:24:21.020 I want the public to know what's going on.
01:24:23.180 all right well that was it um that was very interesting he said there's going to be hearing
01:24:39.640 tomorrow and he thinks it's an open court hearing um at 9 a.m and that the judge will identify the
01:24:46.820 juror i mean obviously not to us but it's he seemed to suggest there that the judge is going
01:24:53.260 to identify the juror tomorrow morning at nine and they're going to have some sort of hearing he
01:24:56.920 said i hope it's an open court versus not uh at sidebar that that would be extraordinary wouldn't
01:25:02.840 it they're going to name the juror no they're going to they're not in public they're not going
01:25:06.720 to they don't name any jurors right now remember the jurors are kept private but i mean to the to
01:25:11.360 the council oh to the to the council yeah i thought in open court and stuff no no we won't know yeah
01:25:16.040 they could tell tell the name to the council and say which juror number it is. That will be
01:25:20.520 interesting. And I that's why I don't believe he is acting. He said at the end that, yes,
01:25:29.440 he doesn't want to mistrial. I think that overplays it. I think he thinks he's winning.
01:25:33.800 But also, if he thinks he's winning, that tells you why he wants that one juror bounced.
01:25:39.820 And if that juror is balanced, he thinks he'll get the acquittal that he thinks he deserves.
01:25:45.760 But that's why I'd be surprised if that holdout juror was the only thing preventing a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.
01:25:55.540 Go ahead, Phil.
01:25:56.780 Well, I certainly think it's very telling that he's as willing to speak to the media and give us a lot of the details.
01:26:05.500 It was interesting that he said just now, he said, you heard the note.
01:26:09.020 Well, we didn't.
01:26:09.900 To my knowledge, we really didn't hear the note.
01:26:12.440 He did.
01:26:13.260 I think that's what was discussed at that long sidebar, but we didn't actually hear the note, and it would be very helpful if we had heard it.
01:26:20.800 Or in that media scram right there where he had just told us what the note said, that would be very helpful.
01:26:28.020 I agree with Dave, though, on the issue of identifying the juror.
01:26:32.760 That's not going to be publicly done, but it sounds to me like the judge has to bring one juror in, and this could be done in camera without the public or whatever.
01:26:42.420 They're going to need to bring one juror in and question this one juror about just what's going on in deliberations to answer the question, are you refusing to deliberate or do we have a situation where you are holding on to a firmly held conviction in accordance with the court's previous instruction?
01:27:01.200 I think that's the issue the judge is going to need to drill down on.
01:27:04.980 To what end, though, Phil?
01:27:06.540 Is that for the purpose of bouncing the juror or is that for the purpose of declaring a mistrial?
01:27:10.840 No, because if they're not deliberating, they can balance them.
01:27:13.500 And I actually had that happen in a trial, and we did exactly what I just said.
01:27:18.180 The judge brought in the single juror who was identified by the others or by the foreperson and said, hey, just tell us what's going on back there.
01:27:26.620 And the judge was very neutral about it, and then the judge was satisfied that this person was holding on to a sincere belief and sent them back.
01:27:34.960 And then shortly thereafter, the case was over.
01:27:37.060 But I think that's what the judge has to decide is what is he dealing with?
01:27:40.860 Is he dealing with somebody who's actually following his instructions and saying, look, I just have a disagreement with y'all?
01:27:47.660 Or is it somebody who's just being stubborn and refusing to deliberate, even though maybe they have acknowledged that they agree with the other jurors?
01:27:56.540 They might very well say, even though I agree with you, I'm not going to sign that verdict for them.
01:28:01.040 And that would be grounds for removal.
01:28:02.720 my team is saying that they heard the juror has been identified and there will be an inquiry by
01:28:12.640 the judge i don't think it will be in a sidebar it will be an open court so you know i take it
01:28:20.780 all with a grain of salt because everyone's feed was glitching no one had a better version of that
01:28:25.960 than we did other than the reporters who were standing right there and actually heard him but
01:28:30.880 we're not exactly sure. Something's happening tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. What will this judge
01:28:38.520 do? I don't know either. I mean, like this could be, I maintain it could be 11 in favor of the
01:28:46.000 prosecution and one for Kevin Reddington. He admitted there he doesn't know what's in the note
01:28:51.660 and he doesn't know more than he said. He admitted that there. He's gleaning. And Matt Murphy was
01:28:58.040 saying he thinks he's gleaning based on how the trial went, you know, that you have a sense as
01:29:01.380 the lawyer who was in the courtroom on where the jury is. But we don't know. And the jury didn't
01:29:06.940 look at Lindsey Clancy, at least according to Justice Served, who's been reporting on this
01:29:10.960 day to day when they came in. So tomorrow morning, we'll know more. They're home and we should go
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01:29:40.520 Thank you. And we'll talk more, I'm sure, probably within the next 12 hours or let's say 16.
01:29:45.820 Thank you, Megan. Thank you. Always happy to be here.
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