{"id":15,"date":"2026-09-15T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:07:23","slug":"lindsay-clancy-judge-indefinitely-impounds-juror-names-citing-safety-and-divisive-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy judge indefinitely impounds juror names, citing safety and &#8216;divisive&#8217; attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Lindsay Clancy mistrial prompted &#8216;significant and divisive attention&#8217; on the case, Judge William Sullivan said<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judge in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/lindsay-clancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lindsay Clancy case<\/a>&nbsp;has indefinitely sealed the jurors&#8217; names, citing safety concerns and what he called &#8220;significant and divisive attention&#8221; on the trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge William Sullivan issued the order on Monday and said while the court acknowledges that the jurors&#8217; names must be made available to the public, there is a &#8220;real and present&#8221; risk of harm to the jurors, stating he&#8217;s impounding all names indefinitely until otherwise ordered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sullivan noted that there have been &#8220;identifications of jurors and their personal information without their permission&#8221; in explaining his reasoning for shielding the jurors&#8217; names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Some of the empaneled jurors have come forward and spoken to the media after the declaration of a mistrial on September 4, 2026. However, the majority of the jurors, deliberating and alternates, have maintained their anonymity, despite multiple requests to give statements,&#8221; Sullivan wrote. &#8220;The Court concludes that there is a risk of immediate and irreparable injury should the list be made available to the public at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clancy, 36, faced three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slayings of her children \u2014 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan \u2014 who were discovered strangled at the family&#8217;s home in January 2023. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after jurors could not agree on a unanimous verdict, with the panel split 11-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the jurors, Paula Devlin, 65, denied allegations of bias when speaking with Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t know what was going on outside of that room, but we knew that we had a chance to get a conversation started that could change something, that could maybe stop this from ever happening again,&#8221; Devlin said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s one of the reasons why we feel \u2014 or I feel \u2014 so strongly about this is that I hope that no other woman or husband has to go through this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devlin said there were &#8220;holes&#8221; in the prosecution&#8217;s case after reviewing the evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In the biggest piece of the whole case, the whole thing was based on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/dr-phil-says-lindsay-clancy-mistrial-teachable-moment-postpartum-psychosis-failure-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health<\/a>. How can you have bias if only women can go through postpartum depression? Only women can go through postpartum psychosis. Only women can deliver a baby. That&#8217;s not biased. That&#8217;s just a fact,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clancy is due back in court on Sept. 29 for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/lindsay-clancy-calls-mistrial-grants-defense-one-hour-stay-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">status hearing<\/a>, at which more information about the future of her case may be revealed. The Plymouth County District Attorney&#8217;s Office hasn&#8217;t made a decision on whether the case will be retried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lindsay Clancy mistrial prompted &#8216;significant and divisive attention&#8217; on the case, Judge William Sullivan said The judge in the&nbsp;Lindsay Clancy case&nbsp;has indefinitely sealed the jurors&#8217; names, citing safety concerns &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americaunfolded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}