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Legally Brunette: Lindsay Clancy & The Jurors · Legally Brunette

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  Speaker 1: Hi guys, welcome to Legally Brunette. I'll be your host today,
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  Speaker 1: Emily Simpson and.
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  Speaker 2: Shane.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're just going to do a little update on
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Clancy, just because the jurors have been just out
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  Speaker 1: and about and speaking and talking and doing interviews and
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  Speaker 1: all the things, so.
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  Speaker 2: Starting their Instagram accounts.
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  Speaker 1: Starting, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Creating YouTube channels.
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  Speaker 1: Building their following. What do you think about that? Do you.
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  Speaker 2: I think it should be prohibited to some degree.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of do too, because.
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  Speaker 2: At least like a 30 days or something, like a
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  Speaker 2: cooling off period.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and then, okay... Then if you still want
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  Speaker 2: to talk, you can talk and hopefully things have calmed
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  Speaker 2: down and they're not just, because they're just blabbing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what? I feel like it takes away
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  Speaker 1: from the integrity of the justice system, of the court,
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  Speaker 1: of what happened. You've just got everybody. It's like everybody
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  Speaker 1: left the jury room. There was a mistrial and then
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  Speaker 1: now everybody went rogue and they're just out.
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  Speaker 2: And they're all just blaming the holdout juror. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So after the mistrial, we've got some jurors who have
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  Speaker 1: been publicly speaking out. After roughly 40 hours of deliberations
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  Speaker 1: over six and a half days, 11 jurors were ready
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  Speaker 1: to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.
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  Speaker 1: We know that's confirmed now because before, remember, we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about the mistrial and there hadn't actually been a
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  Speaker 1: confirmation of what the 11 to one was. We just
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  Speaker 1: were assuming, cause they were talking about reasonable doubt that
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  Speaker 1: they most likely were the 11. We're all heading towards
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  Speaker 1: the not guilty by reason of insanity. Uh, but one
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  Speaker 1: male juror refused to budge leading to a mistrial.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So what did the holdout juror actually say? The most
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  Speaker 1: explosive revelation came from four person, Ronnie Carlson, uh, a
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  Speaker 1: former teacher who said the holdout made a stunning admission
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  Speaker 1: during deliberations. She claims that he admitted he had reasonable doubts.
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  Speaker 1: And then I started to fill out the forms. I
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  Speaker 1: was so excited. But then he said, but I'm still
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  Speaker 1: not going to say that she's not guilty by reason
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  Speaker 1: of insanity. That contradiction is what made this so frustrating
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the panel. He acknowledged the legal
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  Speaker 1: standard had been met, but still refused to vote accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. how I feel about that,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, as far as the jurors.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is as far as she's recounting it. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And this is obviously from her recollection, which I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how accurate that is. I always said I felt
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  Speaker 1: as if someone... like this juror could possibly talk about
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  Speaker 1: reasonable doubt, could say, maybe I feel this way. But
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  Speaker 1: then also the point of the deliberations over a long
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  Speaker 1: period of time is to work through things, to have discussions,
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  Speaker 1: to say, maybe I feel this way, but you can
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  Speaker 1: always change your mind, right? Because what's the movie, 12
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  Speaker 1: Angry Men? I mean, he managed to change an entire
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  Speaker 1: 11 men. To another position.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously.
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  Speaker 2: And he didn't think that the defendant was not guilty
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  Speaker 2: in that story. He was like, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: let's not be so quick. Let's go over all the
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  Speaker 2: evidence and then see. And I'm willing to say he's
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  Speaker 2: guilty if he's guilty, but let's go over it. Let's
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  Speaker 2: not just be so quick to get a verdict in.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the issue. And then going over it,
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  Speaker 2: he started to Things got exposed. People started to question more.
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  Speaker 2: And then they kind of respected the process.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's for me, my takeaway is I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was just like he said, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: have reasonable doubt, but I'm not going to vote this way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the discussion really was. No one
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  Speaker 1: was there. Well, I mean, she's recounting it, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It might have been more like it's leaning towards this,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not like confident to commit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, basically, my takeaway is she's saying you can't
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  Speaker 1: have a discussion and say anything. They just wanted to leave.
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  Speaker 1: He said something about reasonable doubt, and they just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go home. They wanted it to be done, and
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  Speaker 1: they wanted him to follow along.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they probably wanted that outcome, their outcome, too.
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  Speaker 1: Other jurors may have broken the law as well because
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  Speaker 1: many of the jurors admitted to taking sentencing into consideration.
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  Speaker 1: This was some of the things... This is why they
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't go out and publicly start giving interviews because they...
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: They say things that you're just.
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  Speaker 2: And they're tainting like the potential follow-up trial, the second trial.
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  Speaker 1: They believe that Lindsay wouldn't receive proper medical care in prison,
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  Speaker 1: so they wanted her in a psychiatric facility instead, leading
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  Speaker 1: them to the not guilty by reason of insanity verdict.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's not... That's not how it works.
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  Speaker 1: No, because you're not supposed to take the sentencing into
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  Speaker 1: account and your deliberations and what you're... I.
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  Speaker 2: Think we talked about that last time too.
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  Speaker 1: And so basically by giving these interviews and saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't want to see her in jail because she
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't receive the healthcare she needs. We wanted her in
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  Speaker 1: a psychiatric facility. That's why we wanted to vote not
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  Speaker 1: guilty by reason of insanity. They're taking the sentencing portion
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  Speaker 1: into consideration and their deliberations, which you're not supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: And then they're going and doing interviews and openly admitting
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  Speaker 1: that they're not following... No.
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  Speaker 2: And now that you mentioned that, which I hadn't heard before,
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  Speaker 2: one of the jurors was complaining that the holdout juror
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  Speaker 2: wanted the instructions to be reread to them by the judge.
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  Speaker 2: And they were annoyed by that.
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  Speaker 1: They were.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're like, we don't need the instructions. We want
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  Speaker 2: her to go to a psych ward. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that too. And I thought, so the
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  Speaker 1: man's expressing that he would like to hear them again.
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  Speaker 1: And he wants the judge to read them again. And
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  Speaker 1: you're all annoyed by it because you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear it again because you've already come to a conclusion
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  Speaker 1: in your mind of what you want the outcome to be.
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  Speaker 1: But you don't want to give him the space to
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  Speaker 1: be able to listen to it again. Yeah. Three jurors
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  Speaker 1: gave interviews publicly after the mistrial four person Ronnie Carlson
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  Speaker 1: juror Kelly Farina, who is a chef at a senior
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  Speaker 1: center and juror Paula Devlin, a defense contractor, all three
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  Speaker 1: expressed deep frustration. They talked about frustration with the juror
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  Speaker 1: and also about his behavior in the room when they
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  Speaker 1: were deliberating. So multiple jurors on the panel were nurses,
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  Speaker 1: and when they weighed in on the medical psychiatric evidence
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  Speaker 1: about Clancy's postpartum condition and medication, the holdout allegedly dismissed
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  Speaker 1: their expertise. The holdout also reportedly suggested at one point
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  Speaker 1: that the judge reread the definition of reasonable doubt to
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  Speaker 1: the jury and request the other jurors reject it. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting, though, because that's kind of contradictory. If they're
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  Speaker 1: saying they have a problem with him because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to listen to the other nurses who are giving
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  Speaker 1: medical advice, but then he says, I want to listen
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  Speaker 1: to reasonable doubt, and I want to hear the definition again,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, no, you can't hear it. But you
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  Speaker 1: need to listen to these nurses. I mean, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying that's contradictory. They're basically saying, please give weight to
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  Speaker 1: these people and let them talk. But then when he
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  Speaker 1: wants to hear the instructions again... from the judge they're saying.
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  Speaker 2: No yeah i question these people.
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  Speaker 1: Um what was the atmosphere in the jury room so
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  Speaker 1: deliberations got heated enough that six alternate jurors seated outside
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  Speaker 1: the room could hear the arguments there was name calling
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  Speaker 1: and raised voices at the same time the jurors described
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  Speaker 1: moments of camaraderie hugging practicing self-care to get through it
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  Speaker 1: and the three women who have spoken out said they
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  Speaker 1: formed genuine friendships through the experience um The three jurors
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  Speaker 1: were critical of the prosecution's approach while finding defense attorney
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Reddington's style more authentic and persuasive. They clearly sided
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  Speaker 1: with the defense's framing of Clancy as a woman in
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  Speaker 1: a severe psychiatric crisis driven by postpartum psychosis and an
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  Speaker 1: over-medicated state.
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  Speaker 2: You know, remember the gentleman that we interviewed, Kevin Harper?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He went to jail for 14 years. Mm-hmm. For killing
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  Speaker 2: his son, which he didn't do.
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  Speaker 1: It was the junk science of the shaken baby syndrome. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: he was playing like the airplane game.
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  Speaker 2: But moving past that. So now we're interviewing him, getting
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  Speaker 2: to know his story. And he had shared that one
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  Speaker 2: of the jury members was not selected, was eliminated. Or
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  Speaker 2: potential jury members was eliminated because she was getting teary
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  Speaker 2: eyed and crying. And they talked to her and she had.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember this? She had disclosed that she couldn't
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  Speaker 2: find him not guilty because she already has like it
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  Speaker 2: all in her head that he's guilty, whether it's because
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  Speaker 2: of what she heard or whatever, just based on his looks,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was. But she admitted it like in a
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  Speaker 2: way of like, I can't do this because I can
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  Speaker 2: only see guilty and that horrible situation for that child.
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  Speaker 2: So they let her go, obviously. And then he said
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  Speaker 2: that he thought at that point, I'm a dead man.
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  Speaker 1: Because she was representative.
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  Speaker 2: Because how many other people already have been convicted guilty
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  Speaker 2: without having even started the trial? So these jury members
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  Speaker 2: went back there, and they probably already had a conviction
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  Speaker 2: of some sort in their head before deliberating.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying like they probably already had come to the conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: Or they were stuck on it. At some point, they
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  Speaker 2: got stuck on it, and they weren't going to be swayed.
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  Speaker 2: And they weren't going to let anyone- talk to them otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I have respect
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  Speaker 1: for the one jury member who was not persuaded.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he went up against 11 people.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I feel they're doxing this man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: people know where he lives. They're harassing him.
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  Speaker 2: They're identifying him without identifying him. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And he's getting hate.
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  Speaker 2: And they're making it like he kind of debunked And
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  Speaker 2: bungled up the whole jury process. Right.
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  Speaker 1: But the jury process is exactly what it is meant
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  Speaker 1: to be. It is unanimous. in order to get a conviction.
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  Speaker 1: It is a unanimous jury. That is the state level.
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  Speaker 1: That is the threshold. If one member does not go
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  Speaker 1: along because he's stuck to his convictions... you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: what a jury is. That's what it's for. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they act like this, like he did something wrong. He
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  Speaker 1: stuck to what he believed in and he could not
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  Speaker 1: be persuaded. And as far as him expressing reasonable doubt,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the situation with that. I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he said. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the language was. I don't know if he was just
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  Speaker 1: going through things in his mind and talking and they
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  Speaker 1: heard him say reasonable doubt. So they jumped on it
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  Speaker 1: because they just wanted to go home. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, He was pretty
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  Speaker 1: steadfast in not allowing 11 people to change his mind.
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  Speaker 2: And he's not running around doing interviews trying to be popular.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's probably hiding out somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: He probably went back to work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's a normal dude.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they did find he was arrested, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: for something, like some type of physical altercation with a
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  Speaker 1: nephew or Of course, now they're, you know, trying to find,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, did they do that with the 11
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  Speaker 1: other jurors? What about them? Did they have some type
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  Speaker 1: of criminal history or something? I don't know, but nobody's
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  Speaker 1: looking into them. They're just looking into, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: one holdout juror. But anyway, let's go on. The president
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  Speaker 1: said Sunday that he will not be pardoning Lindsay Clancy.
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  Speaker 1: It is actually a state.
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  Speaker 2: Situation, not a federal one, which is why didn't your
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  Speaker 2: Reddington guy know that one?
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  Speaker 1: This is what we talked about before when he had
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  Speaker 1: said on Good Morning America that he would ask the
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  Speaker 1: president for a pardon.
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  Speaker 2: It might just be a stretch just to get more
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  Speaker 2: publicity on the case or something.
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  Speaker 1: He acknowledged the tragedy of the case nonetheless. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very sad situation. I certainly heard that. But look, it's
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  Speaker 1: very sad. There is no winner there. There's no win
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  Speaker 1: no matter what you do. There's three children that are dead.
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  Speaker 2: You wonder if the president gets it. And he's like, what? Oh, crap.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big case. You don't know which way
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  Speaker 2: to go. Yeah. And he's like, oh, wait. It's a
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  Speaker 2: stay case? Sweet. I got an out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, this has nothing to do with me. The
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  Speaker 1: comments came after Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, made a
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  Speaker 1: direct public appeal to the president on Good Morning America
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  Speaker 1: following the mistrial, asking him to consider using his influence
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  Speaker 1: on the client's behalf. Reddington stopped short of asking for
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  Speaker 1: a formal pardon, recognizing that there was a federal state distinction,
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  Speaker 1: but suggested the president could still have an impact as
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors decide whether to retry Lindsay Clancy or not. The
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  Speaker 1: president praised Reddington as a very good attorney and expressed
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  Speaker 1: a hope for resolution without committing to any action. I
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  Speaker 1: hope they can work something out, he said. All right,
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  Speaker 1: what's your take? Now, we know that Lindsay Clancy will
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  Speaker 1: be back in court on September 29th with Reddington representing her. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this in another episode, but this is
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  Speaker 1: not a retrial. I've seen people posting You know, her
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  Speaker 1: trial begins September 29th. That's not correct. It's a status hearing,
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  Speaker 1: which I assume the prosecutors are going to come up
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  Speaker 1: with whatever they decide to do at that point. Are
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  Speaker 1: they going to move forward and retry her and have
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  Speaker 1: the whole trial again? Are they going to offer a plea?
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  Speaker 1: What's the defense going to say?
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  Speaker 2: Will that hearing be continued?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. It'll be interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see what happens, what the prosecution says. You know, on
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  Speaker 1: one hand, the prosecution has a moral... I mean, a
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  Speaker 1: moral obligation to represent the three children. Yeah. For them
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  Speaker 1: to just not retry it. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I said earlier. I think they got to.
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  Speaker 1: You think they're going to retry the case?
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  Speaker 2: Can't sweep this one under a rug.
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  Speaker 1: There's always the option of a plea deal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Or that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not going to be, we're letting it go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't imagine that being.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know they've done that in the past.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen cases like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't imagine the prosecution is just going to say, nevermind.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: She's free to go. There's no justice at that point.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what justice even looks like in
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  Speaker 1: this case.
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  Speaker 2: And Reddington might want to agree to something because she
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  Speaker 2: needs care.
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  Speaker 1: She does.
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  Speaker 2: She needs to be put somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what's he going to do? Be like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I got you off scot-free. Now, good luck.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Figuring out your life. So he might see it as, hey, okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is a happy medium where you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: somewhere and you'll get some treatment and you can try
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  Speaker 2: to recover. Right. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that is an update on the Lindsay Clancy case.
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  Speaker 1: We will obviously continue to follow what happens on September
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  Speaker 1: 29th at the status hearing. It will be interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see what happens with the prosecution, whether the case is
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  Speaker 1: retried or if there's a plea deal. So thanks for
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