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Lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial was only Black person on the jury, panelist reveals: report

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The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case was also the only Black person on the jury, one of the panelists revealed in a new interview.

Paula Devlin, one of the outspoken jurors who was part of the 11-person majority in favor of finding Clancy not criminally responsible for strangling her three young children, explained that the lone holdout was a Black man and the only person of color on the jury in an interview with “CBS Mornings” Friday.

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“Everybody else was White,” she said.

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“I have to sit with that for just a second,” said host Gayle King, who was conducting the interview.

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Devlin also said ages among the jurors ranged between 22 and “70-ish.”

Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial last week after jurors could not agree upon a verdict. They told the court they were split 11-1, with the lone male holdout being the only one voting to convict Clancy of first-degree murder for the deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. 

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