Holdout Juror Says He Had Evidence to Support Convicting Lindsay Clancy

Michael Desronvil, the sole juror who favored convicting Lindsay Clancy of murder, said in a televised interview published Oct. 14 that he believed he had substantial evidence supporting his position. He declined to identify the evidence, saying he would not discuss it while the case proceeds through the legal system.

Clancy’s 12-member jury deadlocked, and the trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4. Desronvil voted to convict; the other 11 jurors concluded Clancy was not criminally responsible because of mental disease or defect. The case concerns the deaths of Clancy’s three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The source reports that they were strangled with exercise bands.

Desronvil rejected claims made by other jurors after the mistrial that he sought a guilty verdict despite having reasonable doubts about the prosecution’s case. He has previously said he wants public attention directed toward the children rather than toward him, according to the report.

The prosecution and defense presented sharply different accounts of Clancy’s mental state and actions. Prosecutors argued that she acted deliberately and understood that strangling her children was wrong. The defense argued she experienced postpartum psychosis, sought help repeatedly without success, and was not criminally responsible.

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has asked Judge William Sullivan to authorize an inquiry into Desronvil, whom Reddington has described as an obstructionist. The requested records and materials include juror questionnaires for the 12 jurors and six alternates, courthouse hallway surveillance footage outside the deliberation room, and jurors’ cellphone sign-in sheets.

Reddington also seeks Desronvil’s questionnaire and supplemental filings, probation records, and a record identified in the motion as belonging to “Juror Doe” in the statewide domestic violence registry. He has asked the judge to require prosecutors to disclose whether they had contact with Desronvil as a defendant, complainant, or subject since January 2021. The motion also seeks Desronvil’s phone records for deliberation days during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

A hearing on the defense request for an inquiry was postponed after Desronvil retained a Massachusetts attorney. The supplied report does not state when the hearing will be rescheduled or what steps prosecutors may take next. It also does not report a court ruling on the requested inquiry or records.