Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, has pushed back against criticism from Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley regarding comments made about the lone holdout juror in Clancy's murder trial. Reddington stated that Turley was "wrong" and expressed a willingness to debate the legal analyst.
Turley had previously characterized Reddington's public remarks about the juror as "utterly reprehensible, a breathtaking abandonment of restraint and decency," asserting that the attorney had effectively "put a target on the back of a juror who committed the unpardonable sin of not being convinced by his arguments."
Responding to these criticisms, Reddington told Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas, "Well, I guess Jonathan Turley was wrong, wasn't he? Based on what we now know as far as the reason why this jury did not vote in accordance with the law." He suggested Turley "should check out the record before he makes his accusations" and countered that "his comments were reprehensible."
When pressed by Llenas that the public does not yet know the holdout juror's account, Reddington indicated it was "probably a matter of time before he's getting interviewed somewhere and you can find out."
Turley, a George Washington University law professor, later responded on X (formerly Twitter) to Reddington's interview. "I was surprised to learn this morning that Kevin Reddington challenged me to a debate in an interview with Fox News reporter Bryan Llenas over my criticism of his attack on the holdout juror in the Clancy trial," Turley wrote. He questioned what Reddington believed was debatable, "the professional duty of lawyers not to fuel the rage against a holdout juror or his apparent self-exemption from that duty."
Turley has maintained that lawyers have an ethical obligation to avoid inflaming public anger toward jurors who exercise independent judgment during deliberations. Reddington, however, contends that the holdout juror did not follow the judge's instructions and that subsequent information supports his criticism.
Clancy's trial concluded in a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on murder charges. Prosecutors have stated their intention to retry her.