The CBS Mornings set went completely silent on Friday when anchor Gayle King learned a surprising detail about the deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial.
During a breakdown of the panel’s makeup—which consisted of nine women and three men—Paula Devlin revealed that 11 of the jurors were white, leaving just one person of color on the 12-person panel.
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“Was the person of color a woman or a man?” King, 71, immediately interjected.
When Devlin, 65, confirmed the juror was a man, King pressed further: “Is the holdout juror… a person of c– a black man?”
After Devlin confirmed that a Black man was indeed the lone holdout juror, King was visibly stunned. “Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second,” she said, taking a visible pause to process the information.
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As the segment concluded, King couldn’t hide her curiosity, asking for more details about the juror. “Very fascinated by the holdout juror, learning that he’s a black man today,” she said. “Can you just tell me his age, I’m very curious.” Devlin estimated he was “in his 30s,” prompting King to reply, “oh, younger.”
Devlin, who served on the panel, shared that the group’s initial vote was split, with eight leaning toward finding Clancy not criminally responsible, two undecided, and two believing she was guilty. Eventually, the split shifted to 10-2 in favor of a not-guilty verdict.
“We all worked together, and I don’t know if it was to convince him to start with, we all worked together to convince ourselves… Once we got to that point where it was 10-2… I felt very bad for them because they felt attacked, and there’s no way to not do that, because that’s where we were talking,” Devlin explained. “Even in normal conversation when it’s pointed at you and you have to defend yourself it’s a hard thing to do, we don’t have to always do that.”
Devlin claimed that after viewing an interview with Clancy, the holdout “said he had realized that it wasn’t murder in the first degree,” noting that “that’s where we saw his doubt.”
The tension inside the jury room apparently reached a breaking point, as the foreperson, Roni Carlson, had even sent a note to Judge William Sullivan on the sixth day of deliberations accusing the holdout of failing to follow the court’s instructions regarding reasonable doubt.