# Male Lindsay Clancy juror breaks silence to describe moment he pressed lone holdout and how it led to mistrial

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- Published: 2026-09-10T20:37:06+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:44:01+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16119315/Lindsay-Clancy-juror-male-holdout-evidence.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Lone holdout juror derailed 11-1 acquittal, causing mistrial
- Juror describes holdout reenacting strangulation with exercise band
- Foreperson says holdout admitted "reasonable doubt" but refused to acquit
- Clancy now faces a potential retrial

## Summary

A juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the former labour and delivery nurse who admitted killing her three young children, has given his own account of the deliberations that led to a mistrial, corroborating other jurors' descriptions of a breakdown caused by a single holdout. Juror Nick Dargie, 25, told ABC News that the unnamed holdout wrapped an exercise band around a water bottle to reenact the children's strangulation, an act he called "disgusting" and which left the rest of the panel speechless. His account followed earlier remarks from foreperson Roni Carlson, who said the holdout admitted having "reasonable doubt" about Clancy's guilt yet still refused to sign acquittal forms, and that he "would not interact with us and try to understand" the other jurors' reasoning.

After five and a half weeks of testimony, 11 of the 12 jurors concluded Clancy, 36, was not guilty of murder or manslaughter over the January 2023 deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, accepting her defence that overmedication for postpartum depression had triggered a psychosis. The lone holdout refused to budge despite more than 37 hours of deliberation, reportedly offering no evidence or testimony to support his position and frequently checking his phone rather than engaging, according to Dargie. An emergency bid by defence attorney Kevin Reddington to force a final round of deliberations failed, and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court, leaving Clancy facing the prospect of a retrial.

## Coverage

- [Daily Mail: Male Lindsay Clancy juror breaks silence to describe moment he pressed lone holdout and how it led to mistrial](https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16119315/Lindsay-Clancy-juror-male-holdout-evidence.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)
- [Fox News: Lone holdout in Lindsay Clancy trial demonstrated the killings during deliberations, fellow juror says](https://www.foxnews.com/us/lone-holdout-lindsay-clancy-trial-demonstrated-killings-deliberations-fellow-juror-says)
- [Daily Mail: What REALLY went down in Lindsay Clancy jury deliberation room amid holdout drama, revealed by legal experts who predict what's coming next](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16118473/lindsay-clancy-jury-mistrial-massachusetts.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)

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