'One Juror Who Refuses to Listen to the Law': the Clancy Defense Wants Them Removed, Forty-Two Years to a Conviction in the Killing Fields

The foreperson of Lindsay Clancy's jury sent a note saying one juror "refuses to listen to the law" on reasonable doubt, defense attorney Kevin Reddington told the court — and asked Judge William Sullivan to remove that juror. Sullivan declined: "I don't feel that it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations. I don't feel it's appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or 11." He questioned each juror individually at sidebar, with Clancy wheeled up to the bench, then reread the instruction on reasonable doubt and sent them back. Reddington objected: "If we come back in a half hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame." A sixth day ended without a verdict, roughly 36 hours in; Sullivan can send them back once more before declaring a mistrial. Clancy has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Also: in Galveston County, Texas, a jury convicted James Elmore in the 1984 death of 16-year-old Laura Miller, whose father founded Texas EquuSearch after her murder and testified against him. And in Colorado, a judge confined Barry Morphew to his home after a private citizen emailed her about a hit-and-run.

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