One juror refused to acquit Lindsay Clancy for killing her three children.
Days later, NBC Boston reporters started digging through that juror's past.
Now the network that dug up his secrets is facing serious questions.
The Mistrial That Started With One Man Refusing to Budge
Lindsay Clancy admitted to strangling her three young children in January 2023.
Her defense never disputed that she did it.
Instead, her lawyers argued a psychotic episode meant she should not be held responsible.
Eleven jurors, two men and nine women, were ready to find her not guilty.
One juror was not.
He held his ground through deliberations, and the judge declared a mistrial rather than force a verdict.
Judge William Sullivan had impounded every juror's name specifically to prevent what happened next, with that order set to hold until September 18.
It did not hold.
What NBC Found and How the Network Found It
NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell put several of the acquittal-minded jurors on camera within days of the mistrial.
Those interviews leaked identifying details about the one juror who would not go along.
NBC reporter Ryan Kath took it from there.
He pulled court records, found relatives, and published a story naming a dismissed 2021 domestic assault charge, an old restraining order, and a pending eviction case.
NBC then openly questioned whether the man should have been seated on the jury in the first place.
Blogger Aidan Kearney, who goes by Turtleboy, finished the job Saturday by publishing the juror's name and home address for anyone to find.
A GiveSendGo fundraiser sprang up for the juror almost immediately, a sign of how fast the backlash to the exposure spread.
Kearney has a well-documented legal history, which did not stop him from playing judge of someone else's character.
Here is the part NBC does not want to sit with: the juror is Black.
The same newsroom that runs segments on protecting people of color from harassment sent a reporter to dig through this Black man's eviction filings and a dismissed assault charge the moment he refused to vote the way eleven other jurors wanted.
Commentators tracking the story have called it exactly what it looks like, a racist pile-on dressed up as accountability journalism, aimed at a juror whose only offense was reaching a different conclusion than the room.
Nobody at NBC10 has had to answer for that contradiction yet.
Why Trial Jurors Get Anonymity in Cases Like This
This is not a gray area.
Massachusetts law makes it a crime to intimidate, harass, or retaliate against a juror because of how he voted.
Federal law carries the same protection, criminalizing any attempt to corruptly influence or intimidate a sitting or former juror.
Courts impanel anonymous juries in high-profile cases for exactly this reason, the same reason Donald Trump's 2024 hush money trial kept juror identities sealed from the public and the press.
The rule exists so ordinary people will still show up and vote their conscience instead of the popular verdict.
NBC10 did not accidentally stumble into this man's eviction filing.
A reporter went looking for it, on the record, in a story with his byline on it.
The one detail that should stop anyone defending NBC cold is this: Judge Sullivan's impoundment order was still in effect when Kath's story ran, meaning NBC published information a court had explicitly sealed.
Convict a network of curiosity if you want, but a juror who did his job by the book should not need a legal defense fund because reporters didn't like his answer.
Sources:
- Teri Christoph, "Did the Media Cross From Sleazy to Illegal in Its Hunt for the Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror?" RedState, September 14, 2026.
- Kyle Becker, "'Holdout' Black Juror's Background Information Leaks — the Left Is in a Racist Feeding Frenzy," RedState, September 11, 2026.
- Cristina Laila, "GiveSendGo Created After Lone Black Holdout Juror in Clancy Murder Case Doxxed Amid Harassment Campaign Spearheaded by NBC Boston," The Gateway Pundit, September 2026.
- Twitchy Staff, "Guy Who Doxxed Clancy Juror Has a Few Issues Himself," Twitchy, September 13, 2026.
