Paula Devlin, a juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, has denied allegations of bias, asserting that the jury's focus was on the evidence presented, particularly concerning the role of postpartum mental health and psychosis. Devlin stated that the case provided an opportunity to initiate a crucial conversation about women's mental health and related illnesses.
"We looked at the evidence, and the evidence had holes in the prosecution's case," Devlin told Fox News Digital. "In the biggest piece of the whole case, the whole thing was based on mental health. How can you have bias if only women can go through postpartum depression? Only women can go through postpartum psychosis. Only women can deliver a baby. That's not biased. That's just a fact."
Devlin noted that Clancy, a 36-year-old former delivery room nurse, had sought help for her mental health struggles prior to the January 2023 incident in which she strangled her three children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months – with exercise bands and attempted suicide. Clancy survived a fall from a second-story window but was left paralyzed.
"I truly, truly in my heart believe that if Lindsay had got the help she really needed, those three children would still be here," Devlin said. "Those five people would still be a family."
Devlin also pointed to a perceived weakness in the prosecution's case: the lack of negative testimony against Clancy. "Nobody could find one bad thing to say about this person, and I would bet my house that those prosecutors looked everywhere to find somebody to be derogatory and say derogatory things about Lindsay. And nobody could."
Despite assurances from others that the jury did not fail, Devlin expressed lingering personal feelings of inadequacy regarding the case's outcome. "Those three little faces and just wondering if we missed something, if we didn't ask the right questions of each other, if we could have done better — it's hard not to feel like we failed," she said. "I mean everybody says we didn't fail, but it's hard to not feel that when you're given a task and you don't accomplish it."