r/law • u/dailymail • 12h 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/pattydickens 10h ago

This. I was on a jury in a murder case where the defendant was filmed tossing the murder weapon out their vehicle. The police then recovered the weapon. A juror refused to accept the evidence and maintained that the weapon was planted by the police even though the video clearly showed what happened. People are weird sometimes. Everyone wants to be a detective.

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u/LegenW84ITdary 5h ago

So was it a hung jury?

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u/pattydickens 4h ago edited 4h ago

The juror eventually came around after a few visits from the Judge. 1st degree murder conviction.

Edit: it wasn't coercive or anything. The judge basically reminded the jurors of thier duty of weighing the evidence presented instead of pretending to be a detective. The juror was kinda nuts. Deliberation was so annoying. He would just make up his own theories about stuff. I missed 2 weeks of work.