Gayle King gasps as Lindsay Clancy juror reveals male holdout who wanted to convict is black
CBS Mornings host Gayle King was left speechless when a Lindsay Clancy juror revealed that the holdout who wanted to convict the killer mother is a black man.
Clancy juror Paula Devlin, 65, appeared on King’s program Friday morning to discuss the case, which saw the judge declare a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked 11-1.
The new details about the holdout juror emerged after King pressed Devlin about the age and racial demographics of the nine woman, three man jury.
Devlin told King the jurors were between the ages of 22 and 70. They were all white, except for one, and many of them had children.
But the TV personality was particularly interested in the racial demographics. ‘One person of color. Was the person of color a woman or a man?’ King asked.
Devlin replied: ‘A man.’ King repeated her response, ‘a man,’ once more before asking, ‘Was the holdout juror a black man?’
‘Yes,’ Devlin said. Seemingly surprised by the answer, King doubled down on her question: ‘A black man is the holdout juror?’
‘Yes,’ the juror said again. King gasped, then looked down, before saying in a softspoken voice: ‘Woah. I have to sit with that for just a second.’
CBS Mornings host Gayle King gasped and was left speechless when a Lindsay Clancy juror revealed that the holdout who wanted to convict the killer mother is a black man
Paula Devlin, 65, appeared on King’s program Friday morning to discuss the case, which saw the judge declare a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked 11-1
Lindsay Clancy, 36, faces a potential retrial after the jury of nine women and three men were unable to agree on whether she was guilty of the murders or manslaughter
Devlin suspects the holdout juror, who has not been publicly identified, was in his 30s, she told King.
She added that after watching a video of an interview with Clancy, the holdout ‘realized that it wasn’t murder in the first degree.’
She said the other jurors ‘saw his doubt.’
Devlin, who works for a government contractor, previously told the Daily Mail that the holdout juror made ‘no sense’ when pressed on his reasons for his vote and was ‘quiet’ for most of the week-long deliberations.
During deliberations, he was more focused on policing the tenor of the group’s discussions than offering explanations for his conviction that Clancy was guilty, she said.
‘The main thing he focused on is sometimes we would all want to talk at once, and that was very upsetting to him.
‘He would get upset and say, ”Listen to what she’s saying, listen to what he’s saying, be respectful’.”
‘We were trying to say to him, that sometimes somebody says something and they get lost in their thought or they can’t find the right word, and somebody else puts that word in there for them or finishes their thought, that’s how normal conversation works.
‘But when that would happen, he would get upset and just take all this time lecturing us about not being respectful.’
The new details about the holdout juror emerged after King pressed Devlin about the age and racial demographics of the jury during an interview Friday morning
Devlin told King the jurors were between the ages of 22 and 70. They were all white, except for one, and many of them had children
Devlin also claimed the holdout was a married man and rarely fraternized with the group during the trial, instead preferring to speak to his wife or watch videos on his phone.
On January 24, 2023, Clancy’s now ex-husband Patrick, 36, a software sales employee for Microsoft, had gone out at her request to pick up their kids’ medicine and takeout for the family.
He returned less than an hour later at around 6pm and went upstairs to find his wife.
But when he got upstairs, he found their second-floor bedroom door locked.
After forcing his way in, he discovered blood on the floor, a bloody knife on the nightstand and a wide-open window.
He ran downstairs to find Clancy on the ground outside, with her wrists and neck cut. She told him she’d tried to kill herself and revealed that their children were in the basement.
Her suicide attempt failed but left Clancy paralyzed and permanently confined to a wheelchair.
Jurors spent more than 37 hours deliberating five-and-a-half weeks of highly complex and distressing evidence.
Clancy has not denied that she killed her three children, but argued she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time
Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months, were found strangled to death at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023
But judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court last Friday afternoon after the holdout refused to side with the other 11 twice, late Thursday and early Friday.
Devlin said the 11 jurors who decided Clancy was not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the deaths of her kids felt ‘defeat’ and ‘anger’ when the mistrial was declared.
She told the Daily Mail: ‘I don’t want to bash anybody, even that person.
‘They did whatever they did for their reasons, and we will never know, and we will never understand.
‘That’s what hurts so much.’
