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Stay denied. Mistrial officially declared. That means there is no verdict and Clancy can be re-tried.

Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · yesterday

Omg. Defense counsel asks for emergency stay so he can seek appeal from the Supreme Judicial Court. Trial judge gives him one hour to get a stay of the declaration of mistrial.

Appellate emergencies are rare, but when they happen they are really intense.

Omg. Defense counsel asks for emergency stay so he can seek appeal from the Supreme Judicial Court. Trial judge gives him one hour to get a stay of the declaration of mistrial.

JarekFA@jarekfa.bsky.social · yesterday

They don’t want a mistrial because the jury indicated that it was an 11-1 split in favor of finding Clancy not guilty. They want the one holdout juror to be replaced with an alternate. Foreperson indicated the holdout had doubts but refused to apply the law.

Why don’t they want a mistrial? They believe the hold out was the lone guilty vote?

Omg. Defense counsel asks for emergency stay so he can seek appeal from the Supreme Judicial Court. Trial judge gives him one hour to get a stay of the declaration of mistrial.

BREAKING: Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy case.

BREAKING: Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy case.

Wow. Jury just sent a note saying that “with a heavy heart” it cannot come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.

Wow. Jury just sent a note saying that “with a heavy heart” it cannot come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.

In other words: 11 jurors agree that there is reasonable doubt and want to find Clancy not guilty (or, more likely, not guilty by reason of insanity). But one lone juror is holding out, despite having made statements acknowledging doubt.

In other words: 11 jurors agree that there is reasonable doubt and want to find Clancy not guilty (or, more likely, not guilty by reason of insanity). But one lone juror is holding out, despite having made statements acknowledging doubt.

Wild stuff happening in the Clancy case. The jury foreperson sent a note to the judge yesterday. According to defense counsel, the note was sent on behalf of 11 jurors. It stated that a holdout juror “has made statements acknowledging doubt, but refuses to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wild stuff happening in the Clancy case. The jury foreperson sent a note to the judge yesterday. According to defense counsel, the note was sent on behalf of 11 jurors. It stated that a holdout juror “has made statements acknowledging doubt, but refuses to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d ago

Follow @johnhawkinson.bsky.social for updates in the USPS mail ballots case this morning. (My colleague @mollyroberts.bsky.social is there too and we’ll discuss on Lawfare Live tomorrow at 4:00 p.m.!)

John Hawkinson@johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good morning from the Moakley Courthouse, outside Courtroom 9, where we'll have the 9am preliminary injunction hearing in League of Women Voters v. Trump and California v. USPS. It's pretty rainy in Boston today and I think I biked through the worst of it.

DOJ: a PI would moot out the TRO and allow an additional path for relief. IT: A TRO…is temporary. I don't think you could go to the SCOTUS on the TRO unless you do so before I issue a decision. I guess you can decide whether they'll rule on that before I issue a decision.

DOJ request the court rule at the hearing today or immediately thereafter, otherwise he's authorized to represent he'll seek emergency Supreme Court relief. IT: What of what I do gets you immediate supreme court relief? DOJ: … we would seek a SCOTUS stay on the TRO. A PI would moot out the TRO.

The DOJ atty (Michael…?) does not think jurisdiction is stripped by the pending appeal, nor the other defendants. He also has a housekeeping matter.

aruging counsel introduce. There were ten+, I did not generally cathc their names. Talwani: "There's been al ot of activity int he case.Dont' tjhink can be accused of slow-walking. I want to start with jurisdiction" She asks about the interlocutory appeal.

ALL RISE, Judge Talwani on the bench at 8:56am, a hair early!

We have an overflow courtroom, but I don't think we'll really need it. There are still plenty of seats here, although it's certainly not empty. Many more plaintiffs than reporters though.