The Lindsay Clancy Juror Smear Campaign Just Backfired

Okay. A man was conscripted into jury duty by the government . That's how it works . Uh he didn't he didn't ask to be a part of this . He was conscripted into it . He performed his civic duty a and ultimately followed his conscience refusing to acquit a woman who confessed to systematically executing her three children after first sending her husband away on an errand so the children would be defenseless . This juror listened to all the testimony and apparently concluded that these horrific premeditated murders are incompatible with the idea that Lindseay Clancy somehow couldn't control her actions or understand what she was doing . Even after the 11 other jurors banded together and tried to vote him off the island on the absurd theory that he wasn't following the law because he disagreed with them , the lone hold out didn't change his position . He did precisely what you're supposed to do when you're on a jury and indeed what you're what you must do if we're going to have a functioning legal system ignored the mob and reached his own conclusion, which was obviously also the correct one . In response, rather than accept the fact that he wasn't able to convince all 12 jurors to acquit an unrepentant child killer , Clancy's defense attorney immediately launched a public smear campaign against this guy . He went in front of television cameras and an appeals court and claimed that the juror was somehow prejudiced against disabled people solely because he didn't buy the manufactured insanity defense . And soon afterwards, several other members of the jury joined the smear campaign . Then the media joined in. Uh