Clancy Juror: Lone Holdout Fixated on Blood

A juror from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial says the lone holdout who forced an 11-1 hung jury was fixated on the amount of blood found in the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, bedroom — and would not explain why.

Paula Devlin, 65, described the deliberations in an interview with "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King on Friday and in comments to the Daily Mail reported by the New York Post.

Devlin said the holdout was one of three men on the 12-person jury and the panel's only minority — a black man in his 30s. Fox News and The Post Millennial highlighted that detail from the same interview.

Clancy was charged with murdering her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — on Jan. 24, 2023. Her lawyers argued she was not criminally responsible because she was overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis; prosecutors argued she planned the killings and knew right from wrong.

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Devlin said the jury started out more split than the final count suggested: eight for not criminally responsible, two undecided and two for murder. Eleven eventually landed on not responsible.

The holdout "thought there was too much blood for the wounds that she had," Devlin told the Daily Mail. "We all asked him what he meant by that, because we heard experts talk about the blood spatter and explain to us how it all was what it was supposed to be." She said he refused to elaborate.

Devlin also said she felt for him. "I felt very bad for them because they felt attacked. And there is no way to not do that," she said of the days spent trying to move the last vote.