The holdout juror who induced Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial has a historical past of alleged home violence corresponding to grabbing his spouse by the throat and punching his nephew, in keeping with a report.
The still-unnamed juror, solely described as a black man in his 30s, confronted a legal cost in September 2021 for allegedly assaulting his spouse, NBC10 Boston reported.
A 13-year-old nephew of the person referred to as 911, stating that his uncle grabbed his spouse by the throat and threw her right into a dresser, in keeping with a police report obtained by the outlet.
The juror’s personal mother repeatedly screamed, “You’re evil!” as he was cuffed in the course of the incident, the report mentioned.
The juror just lately ended up singlehandedly thwarting a verdict in Clancy’s sensational trial by refusing to agree with the 11 different jurors who discovered her not responsible by purpose of short-term madness after she fatally strangled her three younger kids within the household’s Duxbury, Mass., house.
A juror questionnaire in Massachusetts asks whether or not somebody has been arrested, charged with a criminal offense, or been served with a court docket order — all packing containers that the holdout juror ought to have checked.
“I don’t see how they’d’ve allowed him to be a member of this jury,” authorized analyst Michael Coyne informed the outlet.
Court docket information present that the juror divorced his spouse after the alleged violent 2021 incident and that the legal cost in opposition to him was dismissed — though his ex-wife mentioned she backed away from pursuing the case as a result of she was nervous that testifying might trigger her to lose custody of her daughter, the outlet reported.
Final 12 months, the identical teenage nephew took out a restraining order in opposition to the juror, alleging he pushed him to the bottom and pummeled him within the face.
In an affidavit obtained by the outlet, the nephew alleged that his uncle mentioned, “You ruined my (expletive) life” for calling the police and added, “You’ve had this coming your method for a very long time.”
The restraining order remained lively when the juror was chosen for the Clancy trial and as he listened to 6 weeks of macabre testimony through which the previous nurse mentioned she was within the throes of postpartum psychosis when she murdered her youngsters Cora, 6, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.
The person additionally faces a pending eviction case by his landlord for $12,000 of unpaid lease, the outlet reported.
A member of the family additionally informed the outlet that the person, who has been estranged from his household, was “a narcissist,” and that she believes he mustn’t have been a part of the high-profile trial.
The revelations come as one other male juror alleged that the lone juror on the 12-person panel wrapped one of many train bands Clancy used to kill her kids round a water bottle to imitate their strangulation within the deliberation room.
Juror quantity 10 Nick Dargie mentioned the holdout had each proper to his opinion however that the reenactment utilizing the identical train bands left the room speechless.
“I used to be so shocked. We’re not right here to play detective – it’s not a recreation of Clue. That is critical,” Dargie, 25, informed ABC’s “GMA” in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
“I requested him why are you doing that? That’s a band that was used to strangle a baby. That’s disgusting.”
Dargie additionally mentioned the unidentified man appeared disengaged throughout deliberations and refused to elucidate why he didn’t agree with the 11 different members who believed Clancy was not responsible by purpose of madness.
Clancy, 36, stays in a state-run psychiatric facility, Tewksbury Hospital. Her subsequent listening to is scheduled for Sept. 29.
