{"id":5830,"date":"2026-09-06T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:19:01","slug":"clancy-the-defense-goes-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5830","title":{"rendered":"Clancy: The defense goes native"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lindsay Clancy Trial has sputtered to an easily predictable mistrial, and the largely, but not exclusively, Democrat white woman supporters of Clancy are upset that an apparently male juror held out for punishment of some kind for Clancy\u2019s admitted strangling of her three infant children. I\u2019ll not belabor the issue of punishment vs mental health non-culpability. That has been exhaustively addressed here and elsewhere and will continue to be addressed, as it\u2019s likely the case will be retried.<\/p>

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Good luck finding a jury that isn\u2019t hopelessly prejudiced on both sides. In fact, good luck finding a jury at all, as attorney John Hinderaker at\u00a0Powerline\u00a0<\/em>explains:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What I really want to comment on is the behavior of Clancy\u2019s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, and the apparent spinelessness of the trial judge, William Sullivan. Reddington repeatedly attacked the holdout juror in open court and on television, both as the jury was deliberating and after the court had declared a mistrial. While deliberations were still going on, Reddington accused the juror of \u201clying to the court\u201d and refusing to follow the court\u2019s instructions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have never seen anything like this. I tried many jury cases, and I can\u2019t imagine how a trial judge before whom I appeared would have come down on me if I had publicly attacked a particular juror, or group of jurors, as the trial was in progress. It is unheard of. And Judge Sullivan let Reddington get away with it, while, at Reddington\u2019s insistence, holding hearings in open court, in front of television cameras, that should have been conducted privately in chambers. Given this behavior, it is hard to see how the court will be able to find jurors willing to serve in a potential retrial.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was a travesty, and another marker in the ongoing deterioration of our public culture and our judicial system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Perhaps I missed the Prosecution objecting to Reddington\u2019s outrageous conduct? Like Hinderaker, I was amazed, but not surprised. Reddington is\u00a0an old guy, a guy who obviously has decades of experience as a defense lawyer. But that may be the problem.<\/p>\n

Far too many in the defense bar \u201cgo native,\u201d in the manner of diplomats who begin to so identify with the denizens of the nations in which they serve, they fight for their interests rather than America\u2019s interests. I saw it all the time in my police career.<\/p>\n

Some defense lawyers, particularly the young ones, are defense lawyers because they have irrational, TDS-like grudges against the system. They not only go all out to defend their clients, but are willing to break any rule and stretch any law to do it. That kind of defense is at least a part of their own revolutionary psychosis. They, at least the male ones, often wear ponytails, which speaks to other issues.<\/p>

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Others let their zeal to defend their clients as fervently as possible get away from them. They sometimes sway into unethical conduct, and most judges, at least those who don\u2019t share the same ideology, quickly kick them back within legal bounds.<\/p>\n

I used to have hilarious conversations with defense lawyers. I\u2019d hand-deliver copies of updates in my cases and mercilessly rib them about how ridiculously guilty their clients were. That avoided any complaints about failure of the state to fully disclose everything, and most of my cases were plea-bargained, but not to misdemeanors. Our plea bargains were for X number of felonies, with significant jail time, rather than the full load of 20+ felonies. That saved time and money; bad guys were taken off the street, and their record was still loaded with felony convictions.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s Reddington\u2019s problem? He went full native+. Maybe he\u2019s retiring soon and wanted to go out with a bang? Perhaps celebrity so late in life has overwhelmed him? Maybe he\u2019s trying to get appeal issues on the record? If so, he\u2019s putting evidence for his own disbarment on record, but maybe he thinks that\u2019s impossible in Massachusetts. Maybe he\u2019s right. Who knows? Who cares?\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s certain is Judge Sullivan made a mess of things. Even I, a mere police detective, knew you don\u2019t let lawyers attack jurors in open court, and certainly not if the proceedings are ongoing and televised. Hinderaker is right: that sort of argument takes place privately, in the judges\u2019 chambers. All manner of interesting and revealing things take place there.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors are going to have to tread very carefully if they retry this case, as they almost certainly will. I almost wish they wouldn\u2019t. Perhaps it\u2019s because my writing research overdoses me on cases of this kind, but this debacle has punished America enough. I’m almost thinking\u00a0criminal punishment for Lindsay Clancy\u2014and yes, I\u2019m predisposed to that–might not be worth the damage it\u2019s doing to us.<\/p>\n

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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