NBC Boston doxxed the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after he refused to vote for an insanity acquittal, and now the ordinary citizen faces a public harassment campaign while a GiveSendGo has been launched for his protection.
The message from the establishment press is clear: deliver the verdict we want, or we will find you, expose you, and make your life unlivable. Judge Sullivan sealed the court list identifying the jurors. The holdout chose to stay private while other jurors went public. NBC Boston dug into his court records anyway, interviewed his family members, and repeatedly contacted his landlord — who, the outlet helpfully noted, is currently trying to evict him. They also publicized dismissed domestic violence allegations from his past.
Lindsay Clancy admitted she strangled her three children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months — in their Massachusetts home in January 2023. Her defense team argued she was not criminally responsible due to postpartum psychosis. Eleven jurors were ready to acquit. One man, the son of a Haitian immigrant, was not. Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial last Friday.
CBS Mornings host Gayle King revealed the holdout's race on air, saying: "Well, I have to sit with that for just a second." The Gateway Pundit, which is not naming the juror, reported that NBC Boston then spearheaded the doxxing campaign. CNN's coverage, republished by ABC17News.com, buried the doxxing entirely and instead framed the story around the holdout's alleged inability to articulate his reasoning, quoting other jurors who criticized him. One juror told NBC10 Boston: "He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children." Another claimed the holdout could not cite evidence supporting his position.
Maybe that's true. Maybe it isn't. It doesn't matter. The question before the press wasn't whether the holdout juror's reasoning was airtight — it's whether a citizen who serves on a jury and votes his conscience deserves to have his life destroyed for it. The insanity defense has always been a hard sell with the American public, and for good reason: it asks ordinary people to accept that someone who admits to strangling three children should walk free. Whether Clancy meets the legal standard is a question for a courtroom, not a pressure campaign.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington claimed victory and criticized the holdout. Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry the case.
A juror did what the Constitution asked of him. The press punished him for it. The GiveSendGo exists because the system won't protect him. The open question is who the next target will be.
