In as clear a case as you will find of shutting the barn door after the horses have escaped, Judge William Sullivan has impounded the juror list for the Lindsay Clancy trial – after the lone juror who hung the trial in defiance of the rest of the jurors was doxed.
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Judge Sullivan acted after the juror’s name and photo were posted online, leading to harassment and death threats. The juror is now hiding with family members. Evidently, authorities do not feel any obligation to come to his defense, though they were quick to express concerns as to how this outcome might affect juries in future high-profile trials.
All this has come to pass thanks to active efforts by legacy media and a small coterie of female jurors who were incensed, by their own admission, by the lone juror’s unwillingness to go along with the herd. A series of interviews over the past week by three of the jurors threw gasoline on the already blazing controversy, virtually guaranteeing that the holdout juror would be targeted. (Some of these interviews came across as rather strange. One juror appeared on three separate media outlets within a short period, each time looking completely different. In one case made up and with a contemporary hairstyle, in another wearing the frizzy just-got-back-from-Woodstock do of the late 60s, while in a third, she wore no makeup at all and had her hair in a severe bun, coming across as a Sicilian immigrant grandmother of the 1890s. Why go to this effort? To suggest to viewers that a larger number of women were involved? Who knows.)
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The irony here is that Judge Sullivan’s order does nothing for the lone juror (who certainly deserves more than he’s yet gotten from the state), while protecting the identities of the female jurors ranged against him. It’s a nasty irony, and one that will very likely be allowed to stand.
But these things have ways of straightening themselves out. It’s highly unlikely that this will work out the way these nasty females hope it will. Just wait until the next time some female pins her hopes on a balanced jury.
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