PLYMOUTH, MA. (THECOUNT) — Three jurors from Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial are publicly blaming a single male holdout for preventing the panel from reaching a unanimous verdict finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2023 deaths of her three children.
The three women, including jury foreperson Roni Carlson, discussed the deliberations in an interview that aired Tuesday on NBC10 Boston, offering a rare public account of the seven days of deliberations that ended with a mistrial.
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According to the jurors, 11 members of the panel ultimately favored finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, while one unidentified male juror refused to join them. The jurors’ account has not been challenged publicly by the holdout, whose identity remains sealed.
Carlson said the holdout at one point acknowledged that he had reasonable doubt about the case, leading her to believe the jury was finally going to reach an agreement.
“He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited,” Carlson said.
But Carlson said the juror then refused to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.
“But I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity,” Carlson recalled him saying.
Here’s are the 3 jurors who went on TV , the 11 side of the Lindsay Clancy jury:
• Paula Devlin — government-contractor work
• Roni/Ronnie Carlson — retired 5th-grade special-needs teacher and the foreperson (A TEACHER??)
• Kellie/Kelly Farina — retired chef from Plymouth… pic.twitter.com/KZYpDXCg4r
— zach bitango (@ZachBitango) September 8, 2026
Paula Devlin, another juror, described the unidentified man as “very arrogant” and said he appeared unwilling to reconsider his position during deliberations.
“He really did not take anything that anybody said,” Devlin said.
Kellie Farina, the third juror to speak publicly, said the holdout appeared to have particular difficulty moving beyond the fact that Clancy had killed her children.
Farina said the man had “the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”
The jury consisted of nine women and three men. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after the panel repeatedly reported that it could not reach a unanimous verdict.
The central question before the jury was not whether Clancy killed her children. Clancy, 36, admitted killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023.
Lindsay Clancy jurors giggle over how “entertaining” & “compassionate” Kevin Reddington was.
“Just his whole demeanor was funny…”
Totally insane. There was zero chance of a guilty verdict because the female jurors were in love with Clancy’s attorney. pic.twitter.com/zwpyAKgHYw
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 8, 2026
Instead, the jury was tasked with determining whether Clancy was criminally responsible for the killings or should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, a defense based on her alleged inability to understand the wrongfulness of her actions at the time.
Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued that she suffered a severe psychotic episode associated with postpartum psychosis and had lost control of her actions.
Clancy had been experiencing significant mental-health problems following the birth of Callan, according to evidence presented during the trial. After killing the children, she cut herself with a knife and jumped from a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt, leaving her permanently paralyzed.
The jurors who spoke publicly said evidence presented during the trial convinced them that Clancy had deeply loved her children before the killings and that her mental state had deteriorated severely.
Carlson said the jury was never trying to determine whether Clancy killed the children.
“She did, and she’s admitting that,” Carlson said. “We’re trying to figure out, did she know right from wrong at that time?”
Carlson pointed to Clancy’s journals and testimony from family members as evidence that she had been a loving mother before the killings. She said that evidence supported the defense argument that Clancy had experienced a psychotic break.
The jurors also criticized the prosecution’s presentation of the case. Farina said she considered the prosecution’s approach “harsh” and said it lacked compassion for Clancy.
The three jurors praised Reddington, describing the defense attorney in positive terms and crediting his courtroom presentation with helping them understand Clancy’s mental-health history.
Reddington had previously argued that the lone holdout was preventing what he believed would otherwise have been an acquittal by reason of insanity. Before the mistrial, he asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to intervene over the juror’s handling of the reasonable-doubt instructions. The court declined to intervene.
The holdout juror has not publicly identified himself or provided his account of the deliberations. The jurors’ names have also been temporarily sealed by the court.
Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek to retry Clancy. If a new trial is pursued, a new jury would be selected to decide whether Clancy was criminally responsible for the deaths.
Clancy remains in custody at a state psychiatric hospital while the case moves forward. A hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29, when the next steps in the case are expected to be addressed.
Plymouth is the county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, located south of Boston along the state’s South Shore. The Clancy case has drawn national attention since the deaths of the three children at their Duxbury home in January 2023.
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