As jurors prepare to return for a fifth day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, one legal expert says the panel’s decision to continue working through the case could signal that meaningful discussions are still taking place behind closed doors.
I'm curious, what does your gut tell you?
They came in this morning, said that they could not reach a unanimous decision.
Now they've gone home after another full day of deliberations.
They didn't come back and say they're still deadlocked.
That's correct.
So all my gut is telling me is that they're taking this very seriously.
They're having some very in-depth conversations and they're not in agreement yet.
We don't know if they're not in agreement on one of the five possible outcomes or all
five.
They could be split.
We don't know if it's 11 to 1 so far.
We don't know what they're disagreeing on.
We don't know how many are on each side.
But they are willing to keep working and that's what we can gather from them not sending another
note today.
Jurors are asked to consider the facts of the case and kind of leave their emotions
at the door.
They can bring in their general life experiences and common sense as they weigh the evidence.
But how hard is it to leave something like emotion or faith behind when you're in a setting
like this?
That's exactly it.
horrific and so gruesome.
And that's part of why the defense conceded, yes, this is a very horrific case.
This is very sad.
And we're not disputing any of that.
But what we are saying is look at what the state of mind was and look at the reason behind
it.
So they do have to, they can feel it, but they have to put that aside for their deliberations
to go through the evidence and facts and weigh which expert they believe.
Bob mentioned it's still too early to talk about a second trial in this case.
But if this is a hung jury, what is the likelihood that we see this retried?
Attorney Reddington said to the media today and yesterday, he doesn't see Cruz backing
down and he sees this going forward to a retrial if it goes in that direction.
But again, we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.
The jury will come in, they'll be told to keep deliberating in the morning and we'll
have to see if they send any notes back that they're done.
But do you take it as a positive sign that they left today without coming back and saying
we're still deadlocked?
They may not think that they have an option yet to say that they're totally deadlocked
or they might not be at a full impasse yet.
They might still be having conversations and people are still on the jury being open minded
to each other.
And that's what you want.
You want them to take it seriously and to listen to each other.
All right, well, we will be back at court first thing in the morning to watch and see
what happens.
Elyse Hirschhorn, thank you again for your color, your context and your color in this
case.
It's very much appreciated.
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