Paula Devlin said the juror who would not join the rest of the panel in the Lindsay Clancy trial was a Black man, and the only person of color on the jury. That juror was the lone vote to convict Clancy of first-degree murder, while the other 11 jurors leaned the other way.
Devlin discussed the jury on CBS Mornings on Friday, giving the mistrial in the case a new and more specific detail just days after Judge William Sullivan declared it. The split mattered because it was not a close call in the usual sense: jurors told the court they were divided 11-1 on whether Clancy was criminally responsible, and the deadlock ended the case before a verdict could be reached.
The case has drawn close attention because it centers on the deaths of three children — Cora Clancy, 5, Dawson Clancy, 3, and Callan Clancy, 8 months old — at the family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. The jury’s division now stands as the clearest public window into why the trial collapsed, even if it still does not explain why one juror was prepared to convict when 11 others were not.
That unanswered point is what leaves the story open. A mistrial means the court did not get a unanimous verdict, and the reported 11-1 split shows just how far apart the panel was on the question of criminal responsibility. What Devlin added on Friday was not a new legal ruling, but a sharper picture of who was left standing alone when the rest of the jury moved together.
The next step has not been laid out publicly in the details released so far, but the mistrial itself is now fixed: Lindsay Clancy’s case ended without a verdict, and the lone holdout — a Black man, and the only person of color on the jury — became the most consequential voice in the room.
