A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to […] The post Gayle King's on-air fixation on holdout juror's race raises uncomfortable questions about media priorities appeared first on American Almanac .
A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to join the other eleven had been the only Black person on the panel. King, 71, stopped the conversation cold. "A black man is the holdout juror?" she asked. Then: "Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second." The moment, captured on video and posted to the show's official X account, drew immediate backlash from conservative commentators who said King's reaction laid bare a set of assumptions about how a…Open
The nation’s reaction to the 11-1 deadlock that resulted in a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy was, like the jury itself, fiercely and unbridgeably divided.
Paula Devlin was one of the jurors who heard the Lindsay Clancy case. She told CNN affiliate WCVB that she felt a sense of failure after the case ended in a mistrial last week.
A 40-year-old Illinois woman who prosecutors say became "very invested" in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial allegedly killed her 2-year-old son and told authorities she had also planned to poison her husband, revelations that emerged in a court hearing this week. Will County prosecutors told a judge that Corie Walsh confessed to planning to poison […] The post Illinois mother accused of hanging toddler allegedly plotted to poison husband, prosecutors say appeared first on American Almanac .
A 40-year-old Illinois woman who prosecutors say became "very invested" in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial allegedly killed her 2-year-old son and told authorities she had also planned to poison her husband, revelations that emerged in a court hearing this week. Will County prosecutors told a judge that Corie Walsh confessed to planning to poison her husband with a drink and stated she believed she had already killed her other children, The U.S. Sun reported . Walsh's husband was not home on September 1, the day their son Barrett was found hanging from a rafter in the basement of the family's home in Frankfort, Illinois, about 35 miles southwest of Chicago. Barrett's siblings, two school-age children returning home that afternoon,…Open
