Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington sharply responded Thursday to Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley, insisting the legal analyst was “wrong” to condemn his remarks about the lone juror in Clancy’s murder trial. Reddington also said he would welcome an opportunity to debate Turley.
“I’d like to meet with him sometime and maybe debate a few things,” Reddington told Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas when asked about Turley, a Fox News contributor and law professor at George Washington University.
Llenas raised Turley’s earlier criticism of Reddington’s public statements concerning the sole juror who prevented the panel from reaching a unanimous murder verdict.
“Professor Turley said your attack on the juror was quote, ‘utterly reprehensible, a breathtaking abandonment of restraint and decency. He effectively put a target on the back of a juror who committed the unpardonable sin of not being convinced by his arguments,’” Llenas said.
Lindsay Clancy’s defense lawyer Kevin J. Reddington speaks to reporters outside Plymouth Superior Court on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (David McGlynn for News Media)
Reddington dismissed Turley’s characterization.
“Well, I guess Jonathan Turley was wrong, wasn’t he? Based on what we now know as far as the reason why this jury did not vote in accordance with the law,” Reddington said. “Maybe Jonathan Turley should check out the record before he makes his accusations. I kind of think his comments were reprehensible.”
Llenas challenged that response, pointing out that the public has not heard the holdout juror’s account of what happened during deliberations.
“We don’t know what this one juror actually means or have said,” Llenas said.
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“Probably a matter of time before he’s getting interviewed somewhere and you can find out,” Reddington replied.
The exchange is the latest chapter in a public disagreement that erupted after Clancy’s trial, when Reddington publicly criticized the lone holdout juror who prevented a unanimous verdict on murder charges. Turley responded at the time by accusing the veteran defense attorney of abandoning the professional restraint lawyers should exercise toward jurors after a trial.
Turley responded again Thursday after Reddington’s Fox News interview was published.
“I was surprised to learn this morning that Kevin Reddington challenged me to a debate in an interview with Fox News reporter Bryan Llenas over my criticism of his attack on the holdout juror in the Clancy trial,” Turley wrote on X.
Kevin J. Reddington addresses the media as he arrives at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (David McGlynn for News Media)
“I am curious as to what is debatable in his view: the professional duty of lawyers not to fuel the rage against a holdout juror or his apparent self-exemption from that duty,” he added.
Turley has argued that lawyers have an ethical obligation not to inflame public anger against jurors who exercise independent judgment during deliberations. Reddington has maintained that the holdout juror failed to follow the judge’s instructions and that subsequent information supports his criticism.
Clancy’s trial ended in a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on whether she was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three young children. Prosecutors have said they plan to retry her on the murder charges.