Police arrested a woman for allegedly filming jurors in Lindsay Clancy's trial outside of court. CBS News correspondent Shanelle Kaul and legal contributor Caroline Polisi have the latest.
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Lindsay Clancy jury deadlocks on a verdict; police need no deliberation to arrest woman filming them.
As it ran on the front
You want to know how a system tells you what it actually cares about? Watch what it moves fast on. Twelve people sit in a room for days trying to decide whether Lindsay Clancy is guilty of the unspeakable thing she's accused of, and they can't get there — they leave for the day, deadlocked, no verdict, the whole machine grinding on the biggest question it's built to answer.
Same courthouse, same week, different case: a woman is accused of filming the jurors, and there the system finds its legs again. No deadlock. No days of deliberation. Police say she did it, and she's arrested, clean and quick, done before the trial jury even reconvenes.…
…(cont) So a jury can sit with the actual matter of the case for days and shrug, but the machinery around the jury — the part that protects the jury from being photographed — snaps into gear like a bear trap. Ask yourself what that tells you about where the institution's nervous system actually lives. It's not in the verdict. It's in the perimeter.
This isn't a knock on the jurors, who by all accounts are doing an impossible job with impossible facts. It's a knock on what gets treated as an emergency. A phone near a jury box is a five-alarm fire. A trial that's supposed to answer whether three children's deaths were a crime or a catastrophe of untreated illness can sit unresolved a while longer, and nobody trips an alarm for that.
You've seen this shape before, even without a name for it: the paperwork moves at the speed of whoever it protects. Courthouse security around the jury pool is a hard boundary, enforced same day. Justice for the actual event that put twelve strangers in a room to begin with is allowed to take its time, because nobody's job is on the line for a deadlock. Somebody's job is absolutely on the line if a juror's face ends up online.
That's not a coincidence, and it's not a court being careful. It's a court moving fast exactly once, in exactly the direction that keeps its own plumbing safe, and slow everywhere else. Watch which parts of the system move without hesitation. That's the part they actually built to work.
“A jury can't decide on the actual case in days, but cops decide on a woman with a phone in an afternoon. That tells you which one the system is actually built to protect.”
“Juror safety is non-negotiable so of course that arrest was fast, that's not two speeds of justice, that's one speed: careful. Okay, one of those took an afternoon and the other's on day four, but who's counting.”
The receipts
The jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial told the judge Tuesday morning they are deadlocked, and left a Massachusetts courtroom hours later without reaching a verdict.
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.