Clancy's Lawyer Seeks Inquiry Into Juror Who Voted for Conviction
Defense attorneys have filed motions asking a judge to investigate the conduct of the sole juror who voted to convict Lindsay Clancy and to consider dismissing the case altogether.
A Boston judge is being asked to examine the actions of juror Michael Desronvil, the only member of a 12-person panel who voted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murdering her three children. In a motion filed Friday and released Monday, Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington requested that the court obtain records of any calls or texts Desronvil may have sent during deliberations, citing state rules that prohibit cellphone use by jurors.
Reddington asked that the issue be addressed at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 29. The request follows a mistrial declared on Sept. 4 after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict; eleven jurors favored acquittal, citing postpartum psychosis as a factor, while Desronvil sided with prosecutors.
"I didn’t have any doubts," Desronvil said in a statement released on the social platform X through his lawyer Edward Paltzik.
Desronvil also disputed a prior claim that he had expressed reasonable doubt but chose to convict anyway, stating that he was repeatedly interrupted while presenting alternative theories.
Another of Clancy’s lawyers, Martin Weinberg, filed a separate motion urging the judge to dismiss the criminal case rather than order a new trial, arguing that the mistrial was unnecessary and that the court could have replaced the holdout juror with an alternate.
Prosecutors have not commented on the motions. Clancy remains charged with murder and is confined to a psychiatric facility while the case proceeds.