Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Defends Decision

Michael P. Desronvil, the sole juror whose holdout in the case against Lindsay Clancy who was on trial for killing her three young children led to a mistrial on Sept. 4, stood by his vote to convict Clancy, saying he did not hold doubts on her being guilty.

In a statement on Friday, Dersonvil said that during deliberations other jurors cut off his attempts to discuss theories about the case, as The New York Times reports. One of the jurors, Paula Devlin, described Dersonvil as “very arrogant” in an interview earlier in the month with NBC10 and that while “he admitted he had reasonable doubt,” he would not agree to a verdict.

“I didn’t have any doubts,” he said in a statement to NewsNation . “As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present.”

“Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned,” Desronvil said in a statement through his attorney Edward Paltzik, via the Times .

Clancy’s triple murder trial ended in a mistrial after jurors said they were deadlocked and a higher court rejected the defense’s bid to intervene in the deliberations. The jury could not reach a unanimous verdict with the vote remaining 11-1 for at least two days.