Lindsay Clancy holdout juror's lawyer torches 'Looney Tunes motion' to investigate him

Lindsay Clancy's defense team is calling for an investigation into the holdout juror who sought to find her guilty of murder in the strangling of her children and using his refusal to bow to peer pressure to ask a judge to dismiss her charges — prompting a blistering response from his lawyer.

"The 'Looney Tunes' motion filed yesterday by Kevin 'Shooter McGavin' Reddington to investigate Michael is not just an attack on Michael for being the courageous lone holdout juror," attorney Edward Paltzik wrote on X Tuesday morning, referring to the holdout, Michael Desronvil.

"Reddington's motion is actually a full-frontal attack on the U.S.

Constitution," Paltzik warned.

"Because if the new normal is that jurors are going to face brutal reprisals for disagreeing with a defense attorney, you can kiss the Sixth Amendment goodbye." LINDSAY CLANCY PROSECUTORS FACE DILEMMA: RETRIAL OR PLEA DEAL IN CASE INVOLVING 3 STRANGLED CHILDREN He warned that if the judge grants defense demands for an investigation into his client it would undermine the American criminal justice system in the long run.

"If we follow his destructive proposal to its logical conclusion, we're going to have an endless cycle of prosecutors investigating holdouts who oppose 'guilty' and defense attorneys investigating holdouts who oppose 'not guilty,'" he wrote.

"Pretty soon we'll end up with... a retrograde justice system that will look a lot like the Hatfield-McCoy Feud: a cycle of carnage so malignant that its origins will fade in importance, replaced by the hopeless death spiral of the cycle itself." Reddington, in a motion filed Friday , called for a "limited inquiry" into the holdout, for information about his background and potential criminal history, phone records, courthouse surveillance video and more.

Neither Paltzik nor Reddington immediately responded to requests for comment from Fox News Digital Tuesday morning.

LINDSAY CLANCY JUDGE CALLS MISTRIAL, THEN GRANTS DEFENSE ONE HOUR STAY FOR APPEAL In a separate filing, another attorney for Clancy, Martin Weinberg , argued that Judge William Sullivan's decision to overrule a defense objection at trial should be grounds for dismissing the charges against the 36-year-old defendant on double jeopardy grounds.

That motion also centered on the holdout juror and allegations that he ignored the judge's instructions and the law.

FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X "The jury twice informed the Court that one of its members was refusing to apply the Court's instructions regarding the fundamental concept of reasonable doubt," Weinberg wrote.

"After the first such report, the Court asked each juror individually whether he or she was able to apply the law.