For the first time, members of the jury in the closely-watched Lindsay Clancy trial are speaking out on the tense dayslong deliberations over Clancy’s fate. They sat down exclusively with Sue O’Connell from NBC affiliate NBC10 Boston and revealed what evidence moved them the most and their thoughts on the man they say caused the…
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Trial ends with no verdict, so Clancy's lawyer asks Trump to pardon her anyway.
As it ran on the front
On September 3rd, Lindsay Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, told the court a single holdout juror was all that stood between the panel and a unanimous verdict. The panel was nine women and three men, according to CBS News, and the foreperson's note said the holdout would not follow the judge's instruction on "reasonable doubt." That same day, Reddington asked Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan to dismiss the holdout outright, whom he called someone who "refuses to listen."
The judge didn't move fast enough for the defense. On September 4th, per the New York Post, Clancy's team went over his head, asking the state's highest court to force Judge Sullivan to question or remove the holdout before the case collapsed into a mistrial. The high court didn't save them either. Sullivan sent the panel home. Mistrial.…
…(cont) That same day, The Hill recorded the President's first public comment on the case, offered when a reporter asked him about it during an executive order signing ceremony: "It's a shame. It's a horrible tragedy." He hadn't been asked to intervene in the verdict; he'd been asked a question about a tragedy and answered it the way a president answers a question about a tragedy, on his own schedule, with no request pending from anyone.
Five days later, Reddington stopped asking the courts anything. Fox News reports he went straight to the White House and asked for a pardon. Not a new trial. Not a ruling on the holdout. A pardon — the kind of clemency that presupposes a conviction, which does not exist here, because the entire reason we're having this conversation is that the jury never reached one. He is asking the President to forgive a verdict that was never returned.
The jurors themselves broke their own silence the same day, telling NBC10 Boston what moved them during deliberations and what they made of the person they blame for the deadlock. It is, as far as the record shows, the only account from that room that didn't come from a lawyer angling for a shortcut.
Fox's own sourcing is the tell: the legal experts it quotes aren't debating whether Trump grants the pardon. They're totaling what the request costs Reddington's credibility — the same lawyer who couldn't get one juror to bend, and decided the presidency was the easier ask.
“You lose one juror, you go over the judge's head to the state's highest court, and when that doesn't work either, you skip straight to the guy who signs pardons at an executive order signing. That's not an appeal, that's a return address on the one office that can make a jury disappear. The courthouse stops being the last word the moment a lawyer figures out it's just the first stop before the real ask.”
“Look, the pardon power's right there in Article Two — presidents field requests like this constantly, tragic case, sympathetic client, nothing unusual going on here. Sure, normally there's a conviction first, that's kind of the whole point of a pardon, but — did I say that? Forget I said that, the process is completely normal.”
The receipts
Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington made a surprise appeal to Trump for a pardon after the mistrial, but legal experts are skeptical.
· Single holdout juror preventing unanimous verdict in Lindsay Clancy trial, defense claims from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
· Clancy defense asks judge to dismiss holdout juror who ‘refuses to listen’ from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
· Lindsay Clancy wants appeal court to force trial judge to boot holdout juror or question him from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· Trump offers first comments on Lindsay Clancy case from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.