#news Calls are coming in for the judge in the Lindsay Clancy mrder trial to hold open contempt hearings against the nurse jurors – who other jurors admitted – used their own opinions about medications and toxicology findings to explain medical evidence to other jurors and influence their decisions.
#court Outrage erupted after three of the female jurors made the admission during an interview, saying that nurses on the jury were answering questions about the medications, and walking the panel through a South Shore Hospital report as well as a toxicology report.
Critics say this crossed the line, and violated the rules set in place by Judge Sullivan, who told them: Jurors may not answer questions in the jury room with anything except the exhibits and evidence already admitted in court. Any questions about the hospital report, toxicology report, medications, amounts, reactions, etc. should have been answered by the medical experts who testified under oath on the stand, and not fellow jurors.
If there were questions beyond what they felt they could answer via that testimony, a note should have been sent to the judge asking for clarification.
However, critics say the nurses acted like unsworn experts then used their own interpretations to influence the panel and pressure the one hold-out juror to flip his vote to not guilty.
These are the nurses who: Gushed over the performance of defense attorney Kevin Reddington,
Praised Reddington for his ‘extreme compassion’ for Clancy and for being ‘really funny’
Said the prosecution was too harsh on a woman who klled her three kids by strangling them to deth.
Attacked the lone holdout juror because he couldn’t get over ‘how viciously she klled her three kids
Accused the hold out juror of being arrogant because he didn’t base his vote on their medical opinions.
Three jurors – foreperson Roni Carlson, fifth-grade special-needs teacher Paula Devlin; and Kellie Farina, a retired chef – talked about what happened in the jury room.
They said the 12-person jury of nine women and three men spent seven days, and more than 36 hours deadlocked 11-1.
They wanted a finding that Clancy was not guilty, but one man would not join them. They said arguments inside the jury room were so loud that the alternate jurors thought they were fighting.
Because the juror would not change his vote, Carlson sent a note to Judge Sullivan accusing the hold out juror of not following the law.
Reddington even asked the judge to remove that juror.
What do you think? Should those jurors have to face contempt hearings for their actions? And was the jury – that was packed with nurses and teachers – biased? #ChristinaAguayoNews
