Holdout Lindsay Clancy juror will not be giving interviews, his attorney says

The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial will not be giving interviews or speaking out on what happened in the Massachusetts courtroom during the dayslong deliberations before a judge declared a mistrial earlier this month, according to a statement from his lawyer.

“While I appreciate and respect the numerous understandable media requests that have poured in this evening regarding our American Hero and Champion of Justice, he will not be giving any interviews at this time,” the man’s lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, said in a post on X. “None. Zero.”

Paltzik added that he “too will not be giving any interviews on his behalf at this time. None. Zero.”

As deliberations in the triple murder trial unfolded over a matter of days, it became increasingly clear that the 12-person jury, comprised of nine women and three men, would not reach a unanimous verdict.

The foreperson issued deadlock notices to Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan twice before returning to the courtroom to say one juror was not following the reasonable doubt standard and was blocking a unanimous decision.

Sullivan then sent jurors back to deliberations once more before they again returned with the news that they were…

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