The lone holdout juror who blocked an acquittal in the Lindsay Clancy case is thanking supporters and urging the public to put the three dead children first, even as the defense moves to investigate him.
Michael Desronvil, the single juror who refused to join 11 others in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, has spoken out in an exclusive video after the Sept. 4 mistrial in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Fox News reported that Desronvil used the appearance to shift attention away from himself and toward Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy, the three children killed at the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023.
“I know the whole focus has been on me, but we want to reel everything back and put the focus on the three angels,” Desronvil said.
"The ones that can't speak for themselves, the ones that can't defend themselves, and the ones that can't fight the battles, and those are Cora, Dawson and Callan."
He also thanked God for his Catholic faith, for the chance to love his own daughter, and for every person who backed him through the pressure that followed the hung jury.
Clancy, a former Massachusetts nurse, faces murder charges in the deaths of her three children. She has not denied the killings. Her defense argues she should not be held criminally responsible because of severe mental illness, including claims of postpartum psychosis.
Desronvil has said the evidence left him with no room for doubt. In remarks carried by Just the News, he described physical evidence, key witnesses, and the prosecution’s case as proof that Clancy knew what she was doing and planned it.
“I didn't have any doubts,” Desronvil said. He added that when he tried to walk through theories in the jury room, other jurors cut him off as if he were the one harboring reasonable doubt.
His attorney, Edward Paltzik, has been blunt. “Michael has zero doubt,” Paltzik said. He called every allegation against his client “false, fabricated, never happened, categorically false.”
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has taken a different line. He dubbed Desronvil “the obstructionist juror” and asked the court to investigate claims from other jurors that Desronvil refused to uphold the law during deliberations.
Reddington’s team has also filed motions seeking to dismiss the charges and to probe alleged cellphone use by the holdout juror during the seven-day deliberations. The defense has floated past domestic-violence claims against Desronvil as well, claims Paltzik flatly rejects.
Paltzik has not softened his response. In an interview with Fox News highlighted by the New York Post, he called the accusations “the most outrageous thing I have ever heard in almost 20 years of practicing law.”
“In accusing a juror of committing a crime, Kevin Reddington is clearly violating the Sixth Amendment. He’s clearly violating the right to trial by jury,” Paltzik said. Desronvil plans to file a bar complaint against Reddington.
Paltzik went further in comments carried by the Washington Examiner, saying Reddington was “one vote away from winning a trial that would have been the capstone of his career and he didn’t get it, and he lost his mind because of it.”
Clancy is due back at Plymouth Superior Court for a status conference. Prosecutors are expected to update the judge on whether they will seek a new trial. She remains in custody while the fight over the holdout juror continues.
Desronvil, for his part, has kept a low profile at an undisclosed location after the mistrial. Before the Hannity video, he had already pushed back through his attorney and in remarks to YouTuber Ray Marcel, denying claims that he pushed for guilt while secretly holding reasonable doubts.
The basic arithmetic of the case has not changed. Eleven jurors were ready to accept the defense framing. One was not. That one vote produced a mistrial instead of an acquittal in a case built around the deaths of three young children.
Now the defense wants the court to turn its scrutiny on the juror who would not bend, while that juror’s lawyer calls the move an attack on the right to a jury trial itself.
Juries exist to weigh evidence, not to deliver convenient outcomes. When one citizen refuses to rubber-stamp an insanity claim in a triple-killing case, the answer is not to put the holdout on trial.
