Fox Contributor Predicts There ‘Must Be Something in That Note’ Implying Jury is in Favor of Lindsay Clancy

Fox News contributor Paul Mauro believes there “must be something in that note” the jury handed to Judge William Sullivan in Lindsay Clancy’s trial Thursday.

Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington suggested 11 of the 12 jurors in the trial are inclined to lean in favor of his client.

Mauro joined host Will Cain on his eponymous show and offered his take on the day’s wild proceedings in the courtroom:

It must come from the note, there must be something in the note arguing that the 12th person is simply not willing to listen to reason, is not engaging in argument, is not involved in a debate, something they are saying seems to indicate, at least from their perspective. I was talking about this with Martha [MacCullum] earlier, you have to be very weary here of the tyranny of the majority. We are getting that representation from the 11 essentially here.

I think that’s why I think the judge was so meticulous about breaking into the individual jurors and talking to all of them presumably, one of the ones he spoke to was that 12 juror and that juror was asked as they all were, do you understand my instructions, you understand what beyond a reasonable doubt means, and do you understand the burden of proof your relative to what the government has to show, presumably they all said yes, and now they are back in the deliberation room, well, they’re dismissed now for the day. That’s why it’s ongoing.

Clancy’s trial unfolded over five weeks. Though she admitted to strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in a separate civil case, jurors in this case are tasked with determining if Clancy can be held criminally responsible for their deaths. She faces five potential outcomes: first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty by reason of insanity, and not guilty.

The jury has been deliberating for more than 30 hours in the case.

On Thursday, Sullivan called jurors into the courtroom “to remind you that you are required to follow my instructions on the law as I gave them to you.”

He also said, “I’ve told you that every person is presumed to be innocent until they are proved guilty, and that the burden of proof is on the prosecutor. If you evaluate all the evidence and you still have a reasonable doubt remaining, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of that doubt and must be acquitted. It’s not enough for the Commonwealth to establish a probability, even a strong probability, that the defendant is more likely to be guilty than not guilty. That is not enough.”

Watch the above via Fox News.

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