Sunny Hostin reveals she was holdout juror on case where man killed woman, dismembered her, boiled body parts

ABC'S "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin revealed on the liberal talk show Tuesday that she was a holdout juror on a case in a New York in the 1990s in which a man killed and dismembered his roommate, shocking her co-hosts as she argued, "I saw clearly that he was psychotic." As "The View" discussed the Lindsay Clancy case , Hostin said she felt that Clancy was not criminally responsible.

She said she also felt strongly about the holdout juror because she was once a holdout juror.

Daniel Rakowitz was found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or defect in 1991 after killing his roommate, Monika Beerle, with Hostin later identifying herself as the holdout juror who initially prevented the jury from returning a guilty verdict.

Because the jury found Rakowitz "not mentally responsible" for the murder, according to The New York Times, he was sent to a state hospital in New York for the criminally insane.

NBC New York reported in 2010 that Rakowitz would remain at the maximum-security Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Wards Island after he petitioned to be moved.

LINDSAY CLANCY MISTRIAL DECLARED AFTER JURY DEADLOCKS IN KILLINGS OF HER THREE CHILDREN Hostin, whose maiden name is Cummings and whose first name is Asunción, was quoted in a Feb.

23, 1991, New York Times report about the trial, which said, "Several jurors questioned afterward said one holdout juror was principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict." "The View" co-host presented the article on the show while explaining the case.

"That was me.

It was because I saw clearly that he was psychotic," Hostin said Tuesday during the show.

LINDSAY CLANCY JUROR ADMITTED 'REASONABLE DOUBT' BUT STILL REFUSED INSANITY VERDICT, FOREPERSON SAYS "'We don't think he intended to kill her,'" said a juror, Asuncion Cummings.

"'But once he did, he dismembered her body in an effort to commit the perfect crime,'" the Times report read, quoting Hostin.

"He did not mean to kill her, and once he killed her he panicked.

He chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts, tried to commit the perfect crime," Hostin said during the show on Tuesday, noting how much she believed in the insanity defense as her co-hosts appeared shocked.

"And he fed her body parts to the unhoused." LINDSAY CLANCY HOLDOUT JUROR MAKES NEW PROMISE AS LAWYER WARNS OF PUBLIC ATTACKS Her co-hosts appeared shocked, as Alyssa Farah Griffin asked, "You got this guy off?" Hostin added, "All that being said it was so clear to me in the jury room — we were sequestered for nine days, one juror threw a chair at me.