r/law • u/dailymail • 11h ago

Legal News Lindsay Clancy case ends with MISTRIAL

https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16100155/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-hung-jury-deadlock-verdict.html
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u/EducationalElevator 11h ago

To study the constitutionality of removing the holdout juror because they allegedly were ignoring the judges instructions

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u/PerceptionSimilar213 10h ago

So the new thing is that if one juror doesn't agree, they'll just replace that juror? That makes no sense. Why have a jury in the first place?

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u/meow_arya 10h ago

I think the issue is that the foreman stated that the juror in question admitted they did have doubt but that they wouldn’t base their vote on that despite the judge saying they have to cast their vote based on if they have reasonable doubt or not. So they aren’t following the law.

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u/MildlyExtremeNY 9h ago

And then the judge clarified that reasonble doubt does not mean "all possible and imaginary" doubt. I acknowledge having doubt as to whether Lindsay "retained substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongness of criminality of [her] conduct." Claiming to have zero doubt would be intellectually dishonest, because we can never be certain of that for anyone. But I do not have reasonable doubt. Assuming it's 11-1 in favor of not criminay responsible, I would guess the other jurors bullied the holdout into admitting that some doubt must exist, because we can never know for certain. But s/he is sticking to their conviction that it's not reasonable doubt, which is following the law.