Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday offered the lone holdout juror of the Lindsay Clancy case “asylum” after a report alleged that the juror had faced domestic violence accusations in the past.
The juror — who was the sole holdout after the panel split 11-1 on whether to find Clancy not guilty due to mental disease or defect — was the subject of a controversial NBC10 Boston report that detailed the unidentified man’s alleged history of domestic violence.
DeSantis said the report was an attempt at damaging the reputation of the man, who has not identified himself but who others on the jury said is black and in his 30s.
“A man objected to allowing a woman to kill her three young kids and get away with it, so NBC is trying to smear that juror, whose identity should be protected. Another low for legacy media,” DeSantis wrote on X in response to the NBC10 report.
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