# Clancy jury holdout, day seven

True crime · Heat 1.0 / 10 · 4 shows · 2h 33m airtime

On September 3 and 4, 2026, the Lindsay Clancy murder jury entered its seventh day of deliberations with a note reporting one juror refuses to follow the reasonable doubt instruction. Judge William Sullivan questioned each juror, re-read the instruction, and refused to dismiss the holdout; Kevin Reddington moved to remove the juror and to end sidebars. The note identified the holdout as a man and the split as 11-1, and the Commonwealth cited Commonwealth v. Ronchi against an individual voir dire. Massachusetts allows a judge to send a deadlocked jury back only twice before a mistrial, and a lawyer has publicly proposed the DA accept an 11-person not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict.

Page: https://boilpoints.com/point/clancy_jury_holdout_day_seven_1747477001

## Segments

- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-03, 1:09 to 1:30:04: **Reports the judge re-reading the charge**. Live coverage of the deadlock: the judge re-reads the reasonable doubt charge and sends the jury back, while Reddington argues in open court that one juror won't follow the law. The panel splits on whether the holdout favors the prosecution or defense. New angle: The judge denied the defense motion to remove the holdout juror and will hold a hearing tomorrow on questioning that juror.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 1:13 to 5:57: **Reports live from day seven of the jury note**. Live from the courthouse on day seven: the note, the sidebar, Sullivan's individual questioning and re-read instruction, Reddington's motion to remove the juror and to end sidebars. Adds the Massachusetts two-send-back limit and the Commonwealth's Ronchi citation. New angle: Massachusetts lets a judge send a deadlocked jury back only twice before a mistrial.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 6:11 to 8:21: **Debates the holdout juror's removal motion**. Panel segment on the holdout juror: Matt Murphy calls Reddington's removal motion a gamble and notes the two-send-back limit. It retells the day's developments and stays inside what is already on the record.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 8:21 to 21:37: **Airs the full sidebar on voir dire**. Airs the full sidebar argument: the Commonwealth cites Commonwealth v. Ronchi against individual voir dire, Reddington calls the holdout's statement a false oath, and Sullivan rules the note shows disagreement over reasonable doubt, not refusal to follow law. He declines further inquiry and re-instructs the jury. New angle: The Commonwealth cited Commonwealth v. Ronchi, 491 Mass 284 (2023), against an individual voir dire of the holdout.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 21:37 to 26:02: **Cross-checks the note against the coverage**. Reads the notes and the sidebar transcript against the day's coverage and flags what the note actually revealed: the holdout is a man and the split is 11-1, with only three men on the jury. Stays cautious on Reddington's perjury claim, noting the individual questioning was not public.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-09-04, 27:53 to 54:11: **Debates the insanity verdict endgame**. Panel debates Reddington's perjury accusation and the endgame: a lawyer's proposal that the DA accept an 11-person not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict, plus the Hinckley and Constance Fisher precedents for how long an insanity acquittee stays institutionalized.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-24, 13:09 to 15:02: **Argues the insanity standard made a hung jury likely**. Kolsrud argues the hung jury was a predictable product of Massachusetts' insanity standard: the prosecution had to prove sanity beyond a reasonable doubt, and psychiatry is imprecise. A legal-framework argument that stays inside the holdout-juror story.
- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-26, 4:38 to 6:59: **Recaps the deadlock and the insanity burden**. Defense attorney Josh Colesrood argues the eleven jurors voted not guilty by reason of insanity on the evidence and that Massachusetts insanity law puts the burden on prosecutors, making a hung jury likely; Grace presses him on juror bias. A recap of the deadlock and the law already on the record.
- [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski](https://boilpoints.com/u/hiddenkillerswithtonybrueski), 2026-10-03, 1:18 to 3:43: **Frames the holdout question and previews the conflict**. Opens the Clancy discussion by framing the holdout question: whether the juror followed the reasonable doubt instruction or held to his convictions. It retells the other jurors' claim that he admitted doubt but refused to vote with them, and previews the conflict between the two jury instructions.
- [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski](https://boilpoints.com/u/hiddenkillerswithtonybrueski), 2026-10-03, 3:43 to 8:56: **Argues reasonable doubt is a switch**. Defense attorney Bob Motta argues reasonable doubt is a switch, not an opinion a juror may hold and decline to act on, and cautions that everything known about the jury room comes from four or five jurors who lost the argument, with no transcript and no word from the holdout.
- [Real Crime Profile](https://boilpoints.com/u/realcrimeprofile), 2026-10-16, 3:11 to 4:03: **Recaps the standoff and the doubt instruction**. Recaps the deliberation standoff: eleven jurors ready to acquit, one holdout who admitted doubt but refused to apply it, and the jury asking the judge to re-read the reasonable doubt instruction. It stays inside the record already built on the holdout.