Watch: Lindsay Clancy Juror Slams Holdout Juror’s “Disgusting” Moment During Deliberations
The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy‘s murder trial is sharing his perspective on the deliberations.
Michael P. Desronvil—who has identified himself as the one male juror on the case who held out on an otherwise unanimous verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity—broke his silence on why he refused to change his opinion, which ultimately resulted in the judge declaring a mistrial on Sept. 4.
“I didn’t have any doubts,” Desronvil said of believing Clancy to be guilty in a statement to NewsNation Sept. 17. “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.”
Nearly two weeks after the trial ended, Desronvil insisted he stands by his conclusion.
“Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents,” he explained, “I thought it was enough proof that [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”
The 12 jurors wound up deliberating for seven days over the case, which was centered on Clancy’s killing of her and then-husband Patrick Clancy’s children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in 2023.
While Clancy, 36, previously admitted to committing the crime, the trial was meant to determine whether she was guilty of murder, since her lawyer argued that the former labor-and-delivery nurse wasn’t in her right mind due to postpartum psychosis.
And Desronvil isn’t the first juror to speak out on the reason behind the mistrial. Last week, three jurors—identified as Roni Carlson, a fifth grade special needs teacher; Kellie Farina, a chef; and Paula Devlin, who worked for government contractors—provided a different take on the holdout, alleging that Desronvil “completely disregarded the information that they gave.”
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“He was very arrogant,” Devlin told NBC10 Boston in an interview published Sept. 8. “He really did not take anything that anybody said. He tried to ask a question about the medications, and we went back to the report from South Shore Hospital.”
And Farina said that the other jurors tried to read the definition of reasonable doubt to him “numerous times.”
“He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited,” Carlson alleged, but said he told the jurors he was “still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.”
Clancy’s lawyer tried to have the holdout juror removed from the case, saying the person was “refusing to listen” to the judge’s directions and “refuses to listen to the law that you’ve given him or her on reasonable doubt,” but the judge ultimately declared a mistrial.
For more revelations from Clancy’s murder trial, read on.
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