The juror who reportedly stood alone in the Lindsay Clancy case is now facing accusations from his landlord, who claims the man “lied about everything” when he moved into a rental property and has fallen more than $12,000 behind on rent.
The allegation surfaced as newly reported court documents and police records also indicated the juror had previously been accused in domestic violence matters and was subject to an active restraining order during Clancy’s high-profile murder trial, according to a major report published Friday.
The juror, described as the only Black male member of the panel and not publicly named, moved into a two-bedroom rental in March but allegedly soon stopped paying the $2,400 monthly rent, the landlord told Our News Outlet.
The landlord, who requested anonymity, said he initially gave the tenant the benefit of the doubt after the payments began to lapse.
“He told me he was sorry, he was going through some stuff,” the landlord said, noting that he had purchased the property only about a year earlier.
But according to the landlord, the problem worsened as the missed payments piled up.
When he attempted to contact the juror by phone about the overdue rent, the landlord said both numbers he had been given were “disconnected.”
He also alleged that the juror and his girlfriend recently installed cameras around the home and tried to avoid him when he attempted to speak with them face-to-face about the debt.
The holdout juror reportedly had an active restraining order in place against him while serving during the Lindsay Clancy trial. Clancy, 36, is pictured above
Clancy has not disputed that she killed her three children, but her defense argued she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, citing postpartum psychosis at the time
At first, the landlord said, the juror represented that he would be the only person living in the unit, with his daughter visiting occasionally on weekends.
However, the landlord claimed that the man’s girlfriend or fiancée later began spending time there and eventually moved in with him.
‘He lied about everything,’ he told Our News Outlet.
The landlord said he was forced to take the juror to court over the unpaid rent to regain access to his property, just before the Clancy trial started.
During deliberations, the landlord was awarded a default judgment of more than $12,000 in unpaid rent and plans to evict him, court records seen by Our News Outlet show.
According to his landlord, the juror is a church-going man from Haiti, who is in his 40s and works for a local pest control firm.
Neighbors speculated whether the lone juror had ‘gone into hiding’ after the intense interest in the Clancy trial, which ended last Friday in a mistrial after the holdout refused to side with his fellow jurors and acquit the former nurse.
On Friday evening, NBC10 Boston went on to reveal how the man was allegedly charged with assault in September 2021 following an incident involving his then-wife.
Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months, were found strangled to death at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023
Massachusetts standard juror questionnaire asks prospective jurors if they have ever been arrested or charged with a crime, as well as whether they have been served with a court order
A police report obtained by the station said the man’s 13-year-old nephew called 911 and alleged his uncle had grabbed his wife around the throat before throwing her into a dresser.
The man’s mother was allegedly screaming, ‘You’re evil!’ as officers arrested him, according to the report cited by NBC10.
The criminal charge was ultimately dismissed, and the couple later divorced.
His ex-wife told the station that she had not wanted to testify because she feared she could lose custody of her daughter.
But the juror allegedly became embroiled in another family confrontation years later.
Last year, the same nephew who had called police during the 2021 episode obtained a restraining order against his uncle, according to NBC10.
In an affidavit, the teenager accused his uncle of knocking him to the ground and repeatedly punching him in the face.
The nephew claimed his uncle told him: ‘You ruined my f***ing life,’ in an apparent reference to his earlier decision to call police.
‘You’ve had this coming your way for a long time,’ the juror allegedly added, according to the affidavit quoted by NBC10.
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial last week after the jury failed to reach a consensus
The restraining order was still active when the man was chosen to sit on the Clancy jury and throughout the weeks of evidence in the explosive case, the station reported.
That revelation could prove particularly significant because Massachusetts’ standard juror questionnaire asks prospective jurors whether they have ever been arrested or charged with a crime, as well as whether they have been served with a court order.
NBC10 Boston chief legal analyst Michael Coyne questioned how the juror could have remained on the panel if all of the relevant information had been disclosed.
‘I don’t see how they would’ve allowed him to be a member of this jury,’ Coyne told the station. ‘I don’t see how, if those questions had been answered correctly, one side or the other would’ve taken the chance with allowing him to be seated.’
It is not publicly known what answers the juror actually gave.
Juror questionnaires are not public records, and the Boston station said it had been unable to determine whether his questionnaire still exists following the mistrial.
Coyne said prosecutors may now need to investigate what was disclosed during jury selection.
‘It is, in fact, a crime not to do so,’ he said of answering the questionnaire truthfully.
A spokesperson for Kevin Reddington, Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, told Our News Outlet he had no comment when asked about new information regarding the holdout juror and whether he is looking into whether or not the juror was truthful about the details in his jury questionnaire.
Our News Outlet has also contacted the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office and the Plymouth Superior Court for comment.
Family members contacted by NBC10 said they had been estranged from him since the alleged confrontation with his nephew and claimed they had no idea he had been serving on the Clancy jury.
One relative went further, describing him to the station as a ‘narcissist’ and saying she did not believe he should have been allowed to serve on such a consequential case.
Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, had been accused of killing her three young children at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.
Her defense centered heavily on her mental state at the time of the killings.
After the mistrial, other members of the jury publicly described an extraordinary breakdown inside the deliberation room.
They said 11 jurors favored acquitting Clancy, while the lone holdout refused to join them.
Several jurors subsequently accused him of refusing to meaningfully engage with their arguments, with some describing him as ‘arrogant.’
One juror called his behavior ‘shocking.’
Paula Devlin, 65, appeared on King’s program Friday morning to discuss the case, which saw the judge declare a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked 11-1
The new details about the holdout juror emerged after King pressed Devlin about the age and racial demographics of the jury during an interview Friday morning
Clancy juror Paula Devlin, 65, who appeared on CBS Mornings to discuss the case earlier Friday, told Our News Outlet that the holdout juror made ‘no sense’ when pressed on his reasons for his vote and was ‘quiet’ for most of the week-long deliberations.
He was more focused on policing the tenor of the group’s discussions than offering explanations for his conviction that Clancy was guilty, she said.
‘The main thing he focused on is sometimes we would all want to talk at once, and that was very upsetting to him.
‘He would get upset and say, ”Listen to what she’s saying, listen to what he’s saying, be respectful’.”
‘We were trying to say to him, that sometimes somebody says something and they get lost in their thought or they can’t find the right word, and somebody else puts that word in there for them or finishes their thought, that’s how normal conversation works.
‘But when that would happen, he would get upset and just take all this time lecturing us about not being respectful.’
Devlin also claimed the holdout was a married man and rarely fraternized with the group during the trial, instead preferring to speak to his wife or watch videos on his phone.
Devlin said the 11 jurors who decided Clancy was not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the deaths of her kids felt ‘defeat’ and ‘anger’ when the mistrial was declared.
She told Our News Outlet: ‘I don’t want to bash anybody, even that person.
‘They did whatever they did for their reasons, and we will never know, and we will never understand.
‘That’s what hurts so much.’
Jury foreperson Roni Carlson told NBC Boston on Tuesday she was persuaded to find the mother-of-three not guilty by reason of insanity
Roni and two other female jurors opened up about their frustrations with one juror who refused to acquit
Three other women who served as jurors also spoke out earlier this week.
‘We weren’t trying to figure out if she murdered the children, she did and she’s admitting to that. We’re trying to figure out: Did she know right from wrong at that time?’ jury foreperson Roni Carlson recounted to NBC Boston.
‘And with everybody saying she loved her children so much and everything proved she loved her children, from her journals to her mother-in-law, everything proved that she loved her children,’ Carlson continued. ‘So she had to have snapped.’
‘He had reasonable doubt. He admitted he had reasonable doubt,’ Carlson said.
‘I started filling out the forms, I was so excited. There were three forms I had to fill out, and then he said, “But I’m still not going to say she’s not guilty.”‘
