Card #39: Reported jury exhibit request · knife and prescription-bottle bags
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The public record showed a jury-absent sidebar; afterward defense counsel said jurors had asked to inspect the self-injury knife and bags containing empty prescription containers. The request's meaning is unknown.
[VERIFIED FACT] During Friday's deliberations, court briefly returned to session without the jury and Judge Sullivan held a sidebar with counsel. The public courtroom record did not disclose the sidebar's substance. [ALLEGATION] Defense attorney Kevin Reddington later told reporters that jurors had asked to see the knife associated with Clancy's self-inflicted wounds and bags containing empty prescription pill bottles shown during trial. AP, CBS Boston, and NBC10 Boston reported his statement; the archive found no public written jury note or on-record judicial description of the request. [VERIFIED FACT] These were previously admitted or discussed trial materials, not new Day 23 evidence. [UNKNOWN] The request does not reveal why jurors wanted the items, what proposition they were evaluating, how they viewed the evidence, or how any juror was leaning. It does not establish that the suicide attempt was genuine or staged, that medication caused psychosis, that investigators mishandled the scene, or that Patrick Clancy, Rachel Danis, or anyone else participated in wrongdoing.
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