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**BREAKING** Killer Mom Trial: A New Note, Drama in Jury Room, Yelling in the Courtroom, & a Motion to REMOVE a Juror

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A dramatic turn of events in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial. There was a heated sidebar between the attorneys, the judge and Lindsay Clancy after the jury sent a note saying one juror has refused to follow the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt. The judge called in each juror, one by one, asked them a question and then read aloud instructions for evaluating reasonable doubt. That wasn’t enough for defense attorney Kevin Reddington who filed a motion to have that one juror removed. The judge denied his motion and sent the jury back to deliberate. 

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**BREAKING** Killer Mom Trial: A New Note, Drama in Jury Room, Yelling in the Courtroom, & a Motion to REMOVE a Juror

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How Men Think**BREAKING** Killer Mom Trial: A New Note, Drama in Jury Room, Yelling in the Courtroom, & a Motion to REMOVE a Juror. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

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and we've been watching this courtroom for the past hour. Bottom line, there is a motion right now to remove a juror. Let's get going on this stuff, Roads, where you want to start. I mean, from the beginning, I guess, because we got word just a short while ago that the jury had sent a note and we were told pretty quickly that it was not a verdict, but it was unclear. A lot of folks thought that note was going to say that they were at an impact. And I have right, that was around 230 Eastern time, 230 Eastern time, right? Correct. And so we're waiting, we're waiting and all of a sudden the judge brings the attorneys, both the defense and the prosecution, up for a sidebar. And we're getting, we were getting real time information from reporters who were in the courtroom because the pool camera was not obviously on the sidebar. But we got word that Kevin Reddington, Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney was so angry, slamming down paperwork at one point, even threw it on the floor. Tempers were flaring and we couldn't figure out what was going on.

And it took a while because yes, then thank you to those reporters. I'm a Gillespie from Lawn Crime and Work with Court TV. You essentially have people in there have to relay it to a producer who has to relay it to an anchor on TV who has to relay it to us as viewers and now we were laying it to you. This is how we were getting all this information. But yes, Rose, what you described, they describe and all out. Brawl. Yes, and a sidebar. And in front of people in the court, we can't see it as the public because it's a sidebar. But everybody in the court saw this, voices were getting raised. Now the next thing that we say, what the hell? Kevin Reddington goes over and gets Lindsay Clancy and rolls her in her wheelchair over to the judge. What the actual hell? Yes. So then we see the judge calls in the jury one by one. And this is not good. Yes, that's a question. And this is all taking place within a foot of Lindsay Clancy. So these jurors who have been separated from her, they've seen her in court are now literally at an arm's length for her. Which is highly unusual.

And we are seeing them being asked a question and we got word that they were watching the jury one by one answer his question. Yes. And so then brought on. Did he do all the alternatives as well? All 16 jurors, the 12 jurors who are deliberating in the four alternates. And then he comes into court. The cameras pull out. We get audio and the judge starts talking to the jury about reasonable doubt. What is reasonable doubt? And he goes and reissues his orders on what to consider. He says what is proof beyond a reasonable doubt? And I have it here. It is actually specific language and this kind of I'm not going to read the whole thing is loud, but proof beyond reasonable doubt. There is an instruction. It says this instruction must be given verbatim. This is Massachusetts law. So to give them clarity, he had to go through and explain it very much legally. He didn't just say, hey guys, think about that. No, it's a very specific thing that he had to read to them.

Takes a little walk long. He reads it, roped and sends them back to do their work. Now at this point, they only got half hour left in their day based on how they have only been going to four o'clock. We'll see how long, but he sends them back. He says, they weren't done. Right. He says resume your deliberations. And I think he ended with it's not enough for the Commonwealth to present a probability or even a strong probability. It has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. So he has them go resume their deliberations, the jury leaves. He calls another sidebar and we are all left to be thinking what the heck is going on. And then the camera pulls out and Kevin Reddington is at the microphone. The second this next ad bar didn't take as long. So we thought that we were going to come back and yes, of course, going to be in recess. And I saw him walk to that podium, nothing in front of him and just put both of his hands on it and lean forward, adjusted the mic. I said, what the actual hell and sure enough, Kevin Reddington went as Kevin Reddington as we've seen him do.

Roves, he is wildly upset because apparently this note from the juror, the jury has to do with one juror. They are saying that refuses to follow the law and follow the judge's instruction. That was the note. So how did the judge resolve this? He said by bringing them in one by one, putting them under oath, can you follow my instructions, can you follow the law? Yes. Did this 12, 16 times whatever with everybody? That was not enough for Kevin Reddington. No, Kevin Reddington said that is not sufficient and he actually on the record filed a motion to remove that juror who refuses to listen to the law. And he said, I want to formally file a motion to remove that juror. And so the judge allowed the prosecution to say what they thought interestingly enough, the prosecution said, we're okay. That you asked each juror if they could follow the law. That is sufficient for us.

We have no objection. He objected to what he called in the judge's face, a soft instruction. You gave us soft instruction that was not good enough. He said, Robs, if we come back here in a half hour and there's a mistrial because of what you just done. Woo, he did. He said he was angry. He was fired up and he basically said, yes, in 30 minutes, if we have a mistrial, basically, it's on you judge because that juror should be removed. Now the judge in response to him said that discharging a deliberating juror who said that they can follow the law and his instructions under oath is a quote unquote sensitive undertaking. And he said he didn't feel it was proper to side with one side or the other. Meaning he's saying it's not okay for me to side with wonder or to side with 11 jurors. They all individually should be held with equal respect. But you can imagine now, and I guess it makes sense now, why Kevin Reddington was so

upset to think that one juror is holding up a verdict. And we always were wondering what is the breakdown? What is the split? It seems like after today or after these last few minutes, we know what the split is. 11 to 1. Okay. Robs, is it? I'm just okay. We've heard a lot and folks, watch three different channels of legal analysts. Every single one of them is going to give you a different answer to what they know for sure is going on. Oh, it was hilarious as we were watching this all take place. Everyone was trying to guess why the judge would be calling up the jurors individually and asking them a question. People were saying he was on dangerous, he was in dangerous territory by doing so because you should only address the jurors as a whole, as a body to individually question them while in the while there in the middle of deliberations is legally dangerous in terms of any grounds for appeal going forward.

But no one knew what was actually happening and actually heard the scenario that I don't think one person in all the legal analysts that we heard trying to guess what was going on, no one even came close. As close as they got was someone said, this looks like something happened in the jury room. And that is sort of during this conduct. Something happened in the jury room. Robs, is it one person and the one vote or it could be just one person refusing to participate fully in conversation? Which is it? I don't know. And how can they make a determination? We decide that this one person isn't following the law like you said. We decide this one person isn't following your instruction. We the majority in here. Robs, this is fascinating. I don't have a great handle on if it's 11 to one. I've never seen anything like this in my life. Let's go with the 11 to one though, just as an assumption. Which way? 11 to one. Where? 11 to one vote. Okay. Okay. I'm curious. Yes.

This is about reasonable depth. Why was the prosecution so okay to leave that jury, or sorry, leave that juror on the jury? And why was the defense so upset about leaving that one juror on the jury? Okay. Let's break that down a little bit. All right. So why would Kevin Reddington be so upset? He wants this person removed that may mean he thinks the 11 are on his team? Correct. And the prosecution obviously thinks the same thing. They think the 11 are on their team. Is that really the case? Oh no. I think the prosecution thinks it's 11 to one. They want the mistrial. Yes. They'll take it. There it is. Yes. They believe the holdout is the holdout for not guilty. Yes. So if the prosecution thought this was going to upend a guilty verdict, they would be slamming down paperwork too. But how can he is just assuming? He's assuming it's in his favor. He's assuming he's probably did a better job of convincing 11 people in that room than the prosecutors have, convincing 11 people in that room.

I would just say there's a reason why the prosecution thinks one way and the defense thinks the other. The what they describe, Rooms, we couldn't see it, but we could see it. It was weird to hear people describe how he was behaving and the back and forth with him and the judge. And we could see it in our minds because we've seen him perform the past five weeks. That's right. We even heard one legal commentator say, well, if I ever do anything wrong in the state of Massachusetts, I know who I want defending me because if nothing else, he was passionately and rigorously defending his client in that moment. Yes, but we also saw something today that we haven't seen a lot of in that courtroom with the past several weeks. We'll explain that also. We'll tell you about the other things, other happenings, other things we observed in the court during what was an extraordinary few minutes. When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and health captive for nine months.

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This has been a heck of a last few minutes in a Massachusetts courtroom after waiting for hours and hours. And thinking, any moment now, we're going to get a note from the jury. We're going to hear from the jury. And all of a sudden, nothing went as planned or nothing went as expected. Because instead of having the jury come back in and either say they're at an impasse or offer a verdict, we got a completely different string of events that took place in this courtroom involving even watching Lindsey Clancy being rolled up to the judges area right in front of all of the jurors. I had never seen a defendant charged with murder being brought face to face to the jurors. Is that not some type of road? Did that not make a juror feel some kind of way? Should they be in that type of proximity to someone who killed three kids and they're sitting in their judging her? That would just be kind of a re you would think.

I have never in my life seen anything like it. And look, even when you saw, I don't say saw, we didn't see, but when reporters were telling us that they saw Kevin Reddington yelling that tempers were flaring, that he threw first this stack of papers on the table and then eventually threw them on the ground. There were folks who were saying he is risking contempt of court at this point. I mean, he was outraged and he was not afraid to show it in front of a courtroom full of people. Yeah, this was a jam packed court at this moment and they're sticking around because as of this moment, they only have a short time left. They've been leaving at four o'clock Eastern time every day. They've asked to leave early a couple of times, but Robs was only be a few more minutes. What is it like in that room now? Robs, they're telling on each other? Robs, this has got to be, they want to get this over with. But this is a serious matter now, Robs. We are how many out, tell me the hours?

36 hours, I believe, is the count right now that this jury has been, I don't want to say fighting, but negotiating probably very emotionally with one another. And I think it's fair to say that is what was going on because for them to actually send this note to the judge, telling on one person saying, one juror will not follow your instructions. Robs, 36 hours, over six days, and the defense just made a motion to remove a juror. That is really serious. And a reminder, folks, if one juror gets pulled, they have to start deliberations over. That is why they have four alternates in the courtroom. They've been in a different room waiting to see if their services may be needed. And it looks like I'm curious in 30 minutes if they come back with a verdict.

Does that verdict stand no matter what? Yeah, I mean, he's going to appeal it. Obviously, whatever it is, I mean, if it doesn't go Reddington's way, he's going to be a judge. Obviously, if it doesn't go Reddington's way, but I'm talking about the prosecution, if could anyone, could the prosecution, could someone call into question what the judge decided to do or perhaps even not to do? Obviously, the defense is 100% going to use this as grounds of an appeal for any kind of guilty verdict. Can't try again. It's done. Yeah, you got no options. You can't try again. So the prosecution, that's why it leads me to believe there's some reason why both the prosecution and the defense believe that this one juror, this one juror, this holdout that, quote, refuses to listen to the law or to follow the judge's instructions, is the person who is refusing to go along with the not guilty verdict. Folks, keep an eye on the feed because we are expecting something else from this court, from this judge, from this jury, possibly in just the next

little bit. We appreciate you sticking around with us. We are keeping a close eye on it. Keep a close eye on our feed. I'm TJ. That's Robes. We'll talk to you soon. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus, or this random dude is offering the ride on his motorcycle. I choose option B. I'm Julie Pinero, and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Listen to Solita on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I survived nine months in captivity, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the survivor files. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the

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This is just the latest example of them just slapping DEI on anything. It's raw. And I'm sitting here going. They are playing y'all for fools. Catch Roland Martin's daily commentary on the Black Information Network. And download Roland Martin unfiltered on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Brett Coleman, and I'm Trevor Sikama. If you love football and want to understand what's really happening on the field, check out our show, NFL Pro. Every week, we break down the biggest plays, trends, and matchups using exclusive next-gen stats insights, and NFL content you will not find anywhere else. Whether you're new to football, a fantasy football finag, or a die-hard fan, NFL Pro will help you analyze the game like a pro. Listen to NFL Pro on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.

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