A male juror in the mistrial of Lindsay Clancy said the lone holdout on the 12-person panel wrapped one of the exercise bands the mom used to kill her children around a water bottle to mimic their strangulation in the deliberation room.
Juror number 10 Nick Dargie said the holdout had every right to his opinion but that the reenactment using the same exercise bands left the room speechless.
“I was so shocked. We’re not here to play detective – it’s not a game of Clue. This is serious,” Dargie, the fifth juror to come forward in the macabre case out of Duxbury, Mass., told ABC’s “GMA” in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
“I asked him why are you doing that? That’s a band that was used to strangle a child. That’s disgusting.”
He also accused the still-unnamed holdout, who hung the jury in an 11-1 deadlock leading to the mistrial, seemed disengaged during the deliberations, and would frequently be scrolling his phone while people were talking to him.
Dargie admitted “several” jurors were initially leaning toward a guilty verdict, but ultimately said he found the prosecution’s case “inconsistent” and the experts called by the defense more believable.
