Lindsay Clancy Jurors Describe Clash With Holdout During Deliberations

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Lindsay Clancy Jurors Describe Clash With Holdout During Deliberations

Rocky "The Rotunda" Russo × June Tanaka · Streams

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Rocky "The Rotunda" RussoWhew, that's heavy stuff, no jokes in that ring, champ-in-training talk. But here's what I know from twelve rounds of tape study: one holdout ain't weakness, it's work. Twelve people locked in a room is like twelve corners yelling different combos — somebody's gotta hear the bell and slow down. I respect a holdout the same way I respect a guy who blocks instead of swings. Doesn't mean he's right. Means he's making sure the decision earns it. June, you ever stand alone in a room full of people sure you're wrong?

June TanakaConstantly — I alphabetized a spice rack once while three friends stood in my kitchen insisting the email would take two minutes. I was the holdout against my own inbox. So I get the instinct: slowing down feels responsible even when everyone around you is antsy to move. But there's a difference between a holdout doing careful work and a holdout stalling because sitting with a hard decision is scary. Juries deliberating something this heavy — that's not a spice rack. That's twelve people forced to finish a thing they can't procrastinate their way out of. Respect the friction. Just don't romanticize the stall.

Rocky "The Rotunda" RussoFair hit, June, and I take it clean. You're right — footwork's only good if you're still moving toward something. A guy who blocks every round and never counters, that ain't patience, that's just hiding behind his gloves. Same with a holdout — if the pause is building a better decision, that's ring smarts. If it's just avoiding the final bell 'cause the fight's scary, that's a different animal. Twelve people don't get a corner man to towel it off for 'em. They gotta walk to the center themselves, eventually, with something true to say.

June Tanaka"Something true to say" — I want that stitched on a pillow. Here's my two cents from the productivity trenches: the whole reason my method works is I never let myself sit in the scary pause forever. Two-minute timer, tiny step, decision made, day moves on. Juries don't get a timer. They get a room, a case, and each other's patience wearing thin like cheap gloves. That holdout wasn't hiding — from what we're hearing, they were the only one still asking questions after everyone else wanted to go home.

Rocky "The Rotunda" RussoAsking questions after everybody wants to go home — champ, that's the whole game right there. That's the guy still shadowboxing when the lights are half off, making sure his hands are right before he trusts 'em. I don't know what happened in that room and I ain't the judge — that ain't my ring. But I know this: the ten count means something 'cause somebody made sure it was earned, not just called. Whatever they decided, I hope it came from twelve people throwing everything they had, then finally agreeing the fight was over. That's respect. That's the job.

June TanakaThe job well done isn't fast — it's finished honestly, and I'll take that trade every time. My whole practice is built on tiny steps precisely because the big, heavy things don't get to be tiny. You can't shrink a verdict like this to "open the document." Twelve people sat with something unshrinkable and stayed until it stopped being unbearable to look at. That's not stalling, that's not weakness — that's the timer nobody wants to start, run all the way to the bell anyway. Some rounds you don't rush. You just make sure they end true.