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The Clancy holdout juror says he disclosed his arrest and was seated anyway

Clancy Holdout Juror Says He Disclosed His Arrest, Was Questioned by Prosecutors and Seated Anyway

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M.A. Rothman

By M.A. RothmanSeptember 15, 2026 · 5 min read
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The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has, for the first time, given his side of the story, and his central claim cuts straight against a week of coverage portraying him as a man who slipped onto the jury with a hidden past. According to Ray Marcel, host of the true-crime streaming channel Fugitive TV, the juror says he checked the box disclosing a past arrest on his juror questionnaire, was questioned by the prosecution and was seated anyway.

A caveat belongs right at the top. The juror did not appear on camera. His account comes to the public secondhand, through Marcel, who said he spoke with him for about an hour on Tuesday, September 15. Marcel says he confirmed whom he was talking to by showing a picture of the man’s juror summons, but the man’s identity as the holdout has not been independently confirmed, and no court record released so far confirms or refutes his account. But until now, the public has heard only from the jurors who disagreed with him, and the reporting about his background, and that alone makes his version worth hearing.

The mistrial

Clancy, 36, admitted strangling her three young children in January 2023 but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors argue the killings were premeditated. After a six-week trial and seven days of deliberations, Judge William F. Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026, when the panel of nine women and three men told him for the fourth time that it was deadlocked.

Five jurors have since told news outlets that the vote was 11 to 1 to find Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. The one juror who would not go along became the focus of an enormous amount of attention.

What was reported about him

NBC Boston first reported that the holdout juror had a dismissed 2021 domestic assault charge and that a relative had obtained a civil restraining order against him that was in effect during the trial. The Boston Globe, citing court records, reported on September 14 that he was never convicted of the 2021 charge and did not respond to its requests for comment. Juror Paula Devlin told the Globe, “I think he should have been excluded.”

The implication in much of the coverage was that he had concealed his history. Massachusetts juror questionnaires do ask whether a prospective juror has been arrested, charged or served with a court order, and they warn that willful misrepresentation is a crime. But the Globe itself acknowledged that it is unclear how thoroughly he was vetted, and the legal experts it quoted disagreed. Daniel F. Conley said most judges would have struck him for cause. Retired judge Jack Lu said a past civil order or a dismissed charge does not disqualify a juror.

His side

According to Marcel, as quoted by Megyn Kelly’s site, the juror insists he told the truth. “He told me he didn’t lie,” Marcel said. “He told me he checked the box that he was supposed to check. ‘Have you ever been arrested?'” And then: “He was questioned by the prosecution, and was selected.”

If that holds up, it changes the story. A juror who disclosed an arrest and was then questioned and accepted by the Commonwealth did not sneak onto anything. The people who decided to seat him had the information in front of them.

He also describes the jury room very differently than the jurors who gave televised interviews. Marcel said the juror told him that at the start, “Eight were going not guilty. Two were for guilty. And two didn’t know.” He said the eight, whom the juror described as “activists,” spent deliberations trying to bring the other four over. According to RedState’s account of the stream, Marcel said one other juror held with him on guilty until the very end: “At the last minute, she caved.”

Marcel also said the juror “never displayed or said anything about reasonable doubt,” disputing jury foreperson Roni Carlson, who told NBC Boston that he “admitted he had reasonable doubt” but still refused to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.

A sealed name that didn’t stay sealed

Here is what is not in dispute. On September 14, Judge Sullivan extended indefinitely his order impounding the names of the deliberating jurors, finding that releasing them would create a risk of “immediate and irreparable injury.” He noted that jurors had already been identified and their personal information circulated without their permission.

NBC Boston did not name the holdout juror. But according to Los Angeles Magazine, some online users identified him from court documents shown in a television report, prompting accusations that the coverage had effectively doxxed him. His name and photo spread on social media, and the Globe then published his identity outright.

The consequences have been real. According to RedState’s account of the Fugitive TV stream, the juror says he has been threatened and stalked at his home.

None of this tells us whether the juror was right about Lindsay Clancy. That was his judgment to make, and it is what the jury system exists to protect: one citizen’s honest vote, even when eleven others see it differently. The defense has asked for an acquittal before any retrial, and the judge has set a September 29 hearing to schedule the next steps. District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not said whether he will try the case again.

What the public deserves is the whole picture. For more than a week, that meant eleven voices on camera and one man known mainly through his court records. Now there is at least an account of what he says happened, and it raises a fair question for everyone who rushed to judge him: if the court knew, who exactly was he hiding from?

A judge sealed his name to protect him, and the only thing protected for a week was the story everyone else wanted to tell.

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