Lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy mistrial says he has felt harassed
The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s high-profile murder trial said he had been harassed since the trial ended in September, and doubled down on his stance that he did not have reasonable doubt during deliberations.
The juror, Michael P. Desronvil, was the sole holdout who wanted to convict Clancy in the strangulation deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old — in January 2023, other jurors have said since the judge declared a mistrial in the case last month.
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“It was like night and day,” Desronvil said of his life before and after becoming the holdout juror.
He spoke with Kayleigh McEnany on Fox & Friends on Thursday — his first media appearance since serving on the jury.
Other jurors have described a man they claimed was unwilling to negotiate and hostile in the deliberation room.
They said that Desronvil was insistent on convicting Clancy of the murders, but that he was not following the standard of reasonable doubt and had been blocking a unanimous decision.
Through his attorney, Edward Andrew Paltzik, Desronvil has previously denied such claims, saying, “I didn’t have any doubts”.
“As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented,” Desronvil said in a statement posted by Paltzik last month.
On Thursday, Desronvil said he “definitely listened” to the other jurors but added that “some moments in that deliberation room felt like, that decisions would be swayed towards one way”.
He said he had a lot of evidence to support his reasoning but declined to share it.
He did, however, say he thought Clancy had thought out the murders, stating how “methodical” he believed she had been “in the execution of the children.”
Clancy, who was accused of strangling her three young children to death using exercise bands before allegedly throwing herself out of her home’s second-story window, could have been convicted of first-degree murder, or deemed not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility.
The jury could have also convicted Clancy of lesser charges — second-degree murder or manslaughter.
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