From Fox News · Alexander Hall · · 1m 40s
A jury note, a holdout, and a live TV gasp
The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy turned out to be someone Gayle King did not expect.
In brief
The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy turned out to be someone Gayle King did not expect. An 11-1 split ended the Clancy trial without a verdict, and the identity of the holdout became the story instead of the deadlock itself. Originally reported by Fox News.
Eleven to one

Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after the Lindsay Clancy jury deadlocked. Eleven voted she was not criminally responsible for strangling her three children. One voted first-degree murder.
The children
Cora was 5. Dawson was 3. Callan was 8 months old. Their deaths were what the twelve people in that room had to decide about.
Gayle King sits with it

Juror Paula Devlin told CBS Mornings the lone holdout was a Black man, the only person of color on the panel. King froze on air.
“Whoa. I have to sit with that for just a second.”
The water bottle demo
Juror Nick Dargie, 25, said the holdout pulled an exercise band from the evidence bag, tied it around an empty water bottle and yanked, reenacting the killings in the deliberation room.
“I was just so shocked that he did that.”
No evidence offered

Dargie said he repeatedly asked the holdout to point to testimony backing his position and got nothing. That silence is why the jury sent its note to the judge.
“There wasn't a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was.”
A note about reasonable doubt
The foreperson wrote to the court that one juror was refusing to follow the instructions on reasonable doubt. Days later the trial collapsed.
The clip goes viral

NewsBusters editor Curtis Houck shared the exchange and told Fox News Digital that King's reaction showed she had assumed the holdout was a White man she could stereotype.
“King will now be known by many for this cartoonish reaction.”
The key point
An 11-1 split ended the Clancy trial without a verdict, and the identity of the holdout became the story instead of the deadlock itself.



