Gayle King Learns The Lone Clancy Holdout Juror Is A Black Man
We begin with Lindsay Clancy and the lone juror who prevents a unanimous finding that she is not criminally responsible. Gayle King’s reaction to learning that the holdout is a Black man becomes the spark for a much wider conversation about race, identity politics and assumptions about how jurors are supposed to think. The band-and-water-bottle reenactment inside deliberations and the remarks from juror Nick Dargie give us a closer look at the split. We spend the middle of the hour arguing for juror independence while still examining the flaws in the process. The crew discusses Massachusetts’…
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