The sole holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial, who prevented a unanimous verdict in the case of the mother accused of murdering her three young children, did not offer any evidence to substantiate his vote, according to a fellow juror. Nick Dargie, 25, told ABC News that the dissenting juror could not provide "a single piece of evidence or witness testimony" to support his stance.
Dargie explained that the jury sent a note to Judge William Sullivan on Friday, indicating their deadlock after 38 hours of deliberations. This note, he said, was sent because the holdout juror was unable to present any basis for his opposing view, which ultimately led Sullivan to declare a mistrial. "There’s nothing wrong with somebody having a completely opposite opinion … that would be a hung jury. That, like that, is our justice system," Dargie stated.
Dargie, one of three male jurors on the 12-person panel, joined the trial after Clancy had already strangled her children—Dawson, 3, Cora, 5, and Callan, 8 months—with exercise bands in their Duxbury, Mass., home on Jan. 24, 2023. During deliberations, Dargie said he repeatedly asked the dissenting juror to explain the evidence or testimony that supported his position, but received no substantiation.
According to an anonymous juror, referred to as juror No. 5, a majority of the panel, comprising nine women and three men, attempted to persuade the holdout juror to reconsider. This juror also noted that "big personalities" were present during deliberations and that the outcome stemmed from an "inability to kind of move past your convictions."
The jury was reportedly divided 11-1, with the majority siding with the defense's argument that Clancy was not criminally responsible due to suffering from postpartum psychosis. Clancy, 36, is currently in a state-run psychiatric facility, Tewksbury Hospital, and her next court hearing is scheduled for September 29.