Lindsay Clancy jury enters seventh day of deliberations as judge refuses to remove holdout juror

The deadlock in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial deepened Thursday when the jury foreperson sent Judge William Sullivan a note describing a single juror who, fellow jurors indicated, would not apply the court's instructions on reasonable doubt. Sullivan responded by individually questioning each juror in private, then re-reading his instructions to the full panel before sending them back to deliberate.

On Friday morning, Sullivan addressed the defense's request to question that juror again, reading the note carefully before declining. "That note does not indicate this is a person who refuses to follow the law," he said. He also rejected a defense motion to remove the juror, stating, "I don't feel it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations."

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that the jury notes "clearly and unequivocally" showed the split was 11 to 1, and that the holdout juror "has made statements acknowledging doubt but refuses to apply it to the verdict as the law states." Reddington called the juror's answers to the judge's earlier questions a "false statement" and said a possible mistrial would be "not fair" and "just not right." He also filed an emergency motion Friday asking the court to end sidebar conversations and hold all proceedings in open court.