It looks like one single juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial is refusing to acquit. The defense wants him removed. The judge gave instructions that push the sole resisting decent juror to acquit. It’s extremely hard to stand against a crowd. I pray that this one brave person has strength and stays firm, giving us at least a hope of a subsequent retrial for the murder.
7 responses to “One Holdout”
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Sort of the converse of “Twelve Angry Men”
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How can a judge push a juror to make any decision? Isn’t it against the law? (maybe I’m naive).
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https://www.newsweek.com/lindsay-clancy-verdict-judges-jury-actions-may-be-dangerous-expert-12402400
Judge seems to be on shaky legal ground in this particular case.
It is not that uncommon, from what I hear, for judges to give jury instructions that are not… exactly compliant with the actual law. This is why jury nullification is a thing. The one thing the judge cannot do is tell the jury what verdict to reach, and in the US we have a long history of juries declining to convict when the law in question is highly unpopular (eg prohibition). It sounds like the judge is perilously close to that in the Clancy case: trying to tell the jurors how to decide, that is.
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I listened to the instruction the judge gave to the jury. It’s probably not illegal, but he came very close. This judge already made an enormous mistake when he didn’t sequester the jury in what became the trial of the decade. Of course, now he wants to wrap it up fast, but it’s not his job to pressure the holdout.
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No, it was proper for the judge to do that it’s called a Dynamite Charge, it’s supposedly meant to encourage rather than force a verdict. I have not heard that the jury has released their breakdown numbers on the vote so I don’t know how anyone knows that there is one lone holdout, though it may have been revealed to the lawyers in chambers. Like I said before, the prosecution should offer a lesser charge immediately but now I’m not even sure the defense will accept one though I think they should. The prosecution will retry this case if they have to. Of course the defense lawyer would love to retry the case, just imagine the fee.
Walnut
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https://x.com/LAmag/status/2095616597201227889
“Refusing to follow the law”, As the judge described it in his instructions yesterday, is refusing to find the bitch not guilty
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