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Lindsay Clancy trial juror reveals details about lone holdout
By Extra Extra Editorial
Cross-spectrum analysis, synthesized with AI from 26 sources · Updated
A juror who voted to acquit Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman convicted of killing her three children, was identified publicly following the trial's conclusion. The juror's identity and reasoning became the subject of media attention and subsequent online harassment. Governor Ron DeSantis responded by offering the juror protection, framing the situation as persecution for dissenting from the guilty verdict.
Left-leaning outlets focused on the juror's public statements about his reasoning and evidence considerations, treating the story primarily as a factual account of jury deliberations and the broader context of postpartum psychosis as a legal and medical issue. These sources emphasized the substantive details of how the jury reached its decision rather than framing the juror as a victim.
Right-leaning sources overwhelmingly portrayed the juror as a victim of media harassment and doxxing, emphasizing that his identity was exposed and weaponized against him for holding a dissenting view. These outlets framed DeSantis's offer of protection as a principled defense of juror rights and presented the media's coverage as a coordinated attack designed to intimidate or discredit the holdout.
Key Differences
- Left outlets reported on juror testimony and deliberation details; right outlets focused on the juror's alleged persecution and media misconduct.
- Right-leaning sources emphasized the juror's race and framed it as relevant to understanding potential bias or targeting; left sources did not center this element.
- Right outlets positioned DeSantis's intervention as protective of democratic principles; left sources did not engage with this political dimension.
How this story is being covered
Extra Extra has grouped 26 reports on this story from 22 news outlets across the political spectrum. By political lean, that breaks down as 3 left-leaning and 23 right-leaning sources.
Its coverage-diversity score is just 33 out of 100, meaning the reporting is concentrated heavily on one side of the spectrum rather than spread evenly. Interestingly, the story is being covered on the left and the right but not by the centrist outlets we track — a sign it may be more polarizing than consensus-driven.
On reliability, 3 of the 22 rated outlets carry a high or mostly-factual reliability rating (A or B) and 19 outlets fall into our mixed or lower-reliability tier (C or D). Ratings are drawn from independent assessments and are meant to help you weigh each report, not to tell you which to trust.
This story has been covered over the span of about 3 days, making it a longer-running thread rather than a single news flash.
Below, the same story is laid out side by side as left, center, and right outlets reported it. Read across the columns and watch what changes: the headline emphasis, which facts lead, the adjectives, and what each side leaves out. The story itself rarely changes — the framing almost always does.
Outlets covering this story: CBS News, TheGrio, The 19th, American Greatness, Daily Caller, Twitchy, Townhall, One America News, The Gateway Pundit, RealClearPolitics, PJ Media, Power Line, The Federalist, The Western Journal, Not the Bee, The Blaze, WND, RedState, Hot Air, The Christian Post, ZeroHedge, NewsBusters.
Left(3)
CBS NewsBSep 12, 2:12 PM
Lindsay Clancy trial juror reveals details about lone holdout
Paula Devlin, a juror in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, sat down with Shanelle Kaul to share her experience with the high-profile case and tense deliberations that ultimately ended in a mistrial.
TheGrioCSep 11, 7:52 PM
Outspoken juror in Lindsay Clancy trial reveals lone holdout and evidence he considered to deadlock jury
During an interview on CBS Mornings, Paula Devlin revealed to Gayle King that the holdout juror was a Black man.
The 19thBSep 9, 8:03 PM
The Lindsay Clancy trial renewed focus on postpartum psychosis. What’s next?
The high-profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy — which ended in a mistrial last week after a jury was unable to convict or acquit the Massachusetts mother in the 2023 strangling deaths of her three y
Center(0)
Right(23)
American GreatnessCSep 11, 2:29 PM
Lone Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Trial Revealed to Be Black Male
The lone, holdout juror who voted to find Lindsay Clancy guilty of murder was a black male in his 30s, juror Paula Devlin revealed on […] Source
Daily CallerDSep 11, 4:05 PM
Fellow Juror Reveals Holdout Lindsay Clancy Trial Juror A Black Man
‘She loved her children’
Daily CallerDSep 12, 1:42 AM
Media Doxxes Holdout Juror From Lindsay Clancy Trial
Media Doxxes Holdout Juror From Lindsay Clancy Trial
TwitchyDSep 11, 11:21 PM
Media Moving Forward With Sick Effort to Smear Lone Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Trial
TownhallDSep 12, 12:00 AM
The Media Are Going to Destroy the Holdout Lindsay Clancy Juror
One America NewsDSep 12, 12:55 AM
CBS interview with Gayle King: Lindsay Clancy case juror reveals the ‘holdout’ juror was the only Black member
During a recent interview, one of the jurors in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial revealed that the holdout juror who prompted the judge to declare a mistrial was the sole Black member of the jury
The Gateway PunditDSep 12, 3:40 PM
DeSantis Offers “Asylum” to Lone Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Who is Now Being Harassed by NBC
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now offering sanctuary to the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial as he faces harassment from the leftwing media and will likely be doxxed once his i
TwitchyDSep 11, 7:25 PM
Pro-Clancy Juror Is Asked How the 11 White Jurors Tried to Get the Black Holdout to Cave
RealClearPoliticsBSep 12, 1:21 PM
Lindsay Clancy Should Not Be Tried Twice
David Oscar Markus is the author of the Southern District of Florida Blog, which discusses trials and appeals in federal court in South Florida.
PJ MediaDSep 12, 2:12 AM
A Sick Media Mob Is After the Holdout Lindsay Clancy Juror, and It's Just Gross
Power LineCSep 11, 7:40 PM
About That Holdout Juror… [Updated Again]
You know the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case? The one who thought strangling her three children was a crime worth punishing? The one the liberal white women jurors denounced as dumb? Unable t
The FederalistCSep 11, 6:05 PM
The Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Is A Black Man. Here’s Why Gayle King Needed To ‘Sit With That For Just A Second’
The funniest thing you’ll see all week is the moment CBS Mornings content creator Gayle King found out the lone juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial who wouldn’t vote to acquit, resulting in a mistrial,
RealClearPoliticsBSep 12, 1:22 PM
What the Clancy Trial's Chatty Jurors Get Wrong
Jurors serving on high-profile trials might think better of speaking publicly about their deliberations, no matter how enticing a minute of fleeting fame might seem. From what I've seen from chatty ju
The Western JournalDSep 11, 11:58 PM
Watch: CBS' Gayle King Dumbfounded After Learning Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Is Black
Ah, identity politics. It’s one of the favorite rhetorical tactics of the modern left. And, admittedly, it can certainly be effective. Just look at the never-ending culture war being waged […] The pos
Not the BeeDSep 12, 1:44 PM
Local Boston news station publishes apparent smear piece about lone holdout juror in Clancy case
Yesterday, we discovered that the lone holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial was the only black man on the jury.
The BlazeCSep 11, 7:40 PM
'Whoa': Black CBS reporter STUNNED by new info about lone Lindsay Clancy juror who defied the mob
The national debate over criminal responsibility and postpartum depression got somewhat derailed after the jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial revealed more details about the lone holdout. The defense
WNDDSep 11, 9:52 PM
‘A wonderful mother’? The delusional Lindsay Clancy jurors
'Watching the trial, as well as its aftermath, play out has made me fear, seriously, for the future of this country'
RedStateDSep 12, 1:53 AM
Whoa: NBC News 'Tries to Bury' Holdout Clancy Juror, but DeSantis Makes Him an Offer They Won’t Like
TwitchyDSep 12, 8:20 AM
Non-Practicing White: Lindsay Clancy Fan Explains Not Commenting on Black ‘Holdout Juror’ Revelation
Hot AirCSep 11, 8:40 PM
Lindsay Clancy Jury Narrative Buster
The Christian PostCSep 12, 11:04 AM
Scapegoating women over the Lindsay Clancy trial won't solve anything
The scapegoating rage now swirling online rests on the same structures that once entrapped abused women — the very structures out of which resentment and feminist attitudes first arose.
ZeroHedgeDSep 12, 3:05 PM
Left-Wing Media Doxxes And Attacks Black "Rogue" Lindsay Clancy Juror
Left-Wing Media Doxxes And Attacks Black "Rogue" Lindsay Clancy Juror Critics say they have never seen a more egregious example of political groups and the media attempting to expose and
NewsBustersDSep 12, 12:14 AM
ICYMI: CBS’s King STUNNED as Clancy Juror Says Holdout Was Jury’s Only Black Person
ICYMI: CBS’s King STUNNED as Clancy Juror Says Holdout Was Jury’s Only Black Person Screenshot via CBS/Snapstream In a now-viral clip first shared here, Frid
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