A juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy is sharing new details about what he said happened inside the jury room that led to a mistrial in the case of the Massachusetts woman facing first-degree murder charges for the 2023 deaths of her three young children.
Nick Dargie, one of the three men on the 12-person jury, told ABC News’ Aaron Katersky that the lone holdout juror who prevented a unanimous verdict did not show any evidence explaining his vote.
“There was several times I would ask him to show us evidence or, you know, describe a witness testimony that helped to prove what he was saying, and … he couldn’t,” Dargie, 25, said in an interview Wednesday.
You’re right. I didn’t realize all 12 jurors need to agree to acquit a guilty person for it to count as jury nullification. I thought it means more generally “I don’t care what the law says, I will vote not guilty anyway”.
No, a single person can nullify the jury in exactly the way you said, but that doesn’t seem to be the situation here. This wasn’t strictly going against the law. This was a case that was all about interpreting the gray area, and he interpreted it differently from the rest. The fact that 11 went one way, indicates that the gray area wasn’t so gray for most of them, but it was still a judgement call.
Jury nullification is where the verdict is obvious, and is just, and someone just decides to ignore the facts and evidence, and still vote against it.
My wife talks about being on a jury when she was young, and the guy was a notorious local shithead that had been robbing and assaulting people often. They finally had a good case on the guy, and laid out a perfect case, and the entire jury voted to put him away, except for one older lady who said she will NEVER vote to put a young black man in jail.
That’s Jury Nullification.
The lone juror was the guilty vote, and the “innocent” verdict in this case is “meaning she will go to the prison with grippy socks instead” which also isn’t nullification so you just didn’t know anything at all.
Good thing you know so much and can explain it in a condescending tone on the internet. Must feel great.