Paula Devlin

Okay, so let's take everything we just learned into the Clancy jury room, because that's what I want to tie this into.

We have nine women, three men, okay? Juror Paula Devlin told Gayle King the first vote was eight for not criminally responsible, two undecided, and two for guilty.

Over seven days and about 38 hours, it moved to 11 to one, and the one was a man.

And let me say this before anything else, because the worst people on my side of the internet went straight here, okay? I don't think that this means that all women are incapable of serving on juries, and anybody saying that is making the same mistake that the paper describes, that I've talked about, turning a group average into a verdict on every individual in the group, which again, is one of the reasons this entire gender war started.

And finally, we'll go full, full circle to, to get to unanimous verdicts in the military and kind of how this is all linked together.

We'll talk about the difference between, you know, a state or federal court trial and a military trial, uh, when it comes to a verdict, and that will lead us to, you know, why we don't have mistrials in the military because of a holdout juror.

Uh, we can have mistrials for other reasons, but not because of a holdout juror, uh, because the military does not have unanimous verdicts.

A lot of people don't know that.

Uh, to achieve a vote of guilty, you don't need everyone to vote guilty.

And, um, reporting after the trial indicated that the split was eleven one for not guilty by a lack of criminal responsibility with a single holdout.

And so the foreperson told the judge that, uh, the holdout may have disregarded instructions on reasonable doubt.

And so the, the defense attorney, Reddington, he tried to have the juror removed and, you know, filed an emergency appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.