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Mid-Trial, Jurors Were Thinking of Doing a Joint Press Conference on Postpartum Depression

Do we have time for one more look at the insane women who made up the Lindsay Clancy jury, now that, according to The Boston Globe, the lone holdout juror is "getting the negative attention he deserves"? The other jurors claim that the holdout disregarded jury instructions, but the jury had one job: to determine Clancy's innocence or guilt. Not to make a feminist statement. Not to get a national conversation going. Just determine innocence or guilt, based on the facts. The facts are that Clancy murdered her three children, aged 5 years to 8 months, with an exercise band. The lone holdout says eight jurors were pressuring him from the first day of deliberations to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.

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Maybe Paula Devlin and her pals on the jury should have been paying attention to the trial and not thinking about how they could get people talking.

In fact, at some point during the trial, they were planning to do a joint press conference on the topic of postpartum depression.

They already said that they wanted to use the verdict to create change to “make it better for other women.” Make what better for other women? Killing your children?

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They had her acquitted on Day 1 and were planning their activist media tour rather than following jury instructions.

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