Holdout juror in Clancy trial didn’t have ‘any doubts’ that she was responsible for killing her kids

BOSTON — The lone juror who pushed for a guilty verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial said he had no doubt about her responsibility for the deaths of her three children, even as the rest of the panel leaned toward acquittal on grounds of postpartum psychosis. “I didn’t person immoderate doubts,” Michael Desronvil said in a statement released on X by his lawyer, Edward Paltzik. Desronvil countered a claim by the jury’s foreperson that he had acknowledged “reasonable doubt” about Clancy’s guilt but would still vote to convict. “As I tried to explicate antithetic imaginable theories during deliberation, I kept getting chopped disconnected arsenic if I had doubts based connected the grounds presented,” he wrote. “Based connected each the carnal evidence, cardinal witnesses, and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was capable impervious that she (Clancy) knew precisely what she was doing and planned.” Eleven of the twelve jurors believed Clancy acted under a rare condition known as postpartum psychosis when she strangled her children—Cora, Dawson and Callan—in the family home in 2023 before attempting to end her own life. Desronvil sided with prosecutors, who argued that she knew what she was doing. No party disputed that she caused the children’s deaths. The jury’s deadlock led the judge to declare a mistrial on Sept. 4, leaving the case unresolved. The Plymouth County district attorney has not said whether he will seek to retry Clancy. Since the trial ended, Desronvil has drawn both praise and criticism. His personal background, past financial and legal issues have become a focus of media attention and online sleuthing. Reports indicate he faced a restraining order at the time of his employment, was threatened with eviction over an unpaid rent balance described as implicit $12,000, and had a 2021 domestic‑unit complaint that was later dismissed. Some commentary has split along political lines, with certain conservative commentators labeling him a hero. Paltzik, whose former clients include former President Donald Trump and Martin Shkreli, wrote on X that Desronvil is staying in an undisclosed safe location in a rural part of northern New England and will not grant interviews. “As a devoted begetter and antheral of God, helium volition not beryllium defeated oregon shattered by the wicked who privation harm upon him,” Paltzik wrote. A fundraiser described as covering “security, lawyers, and mislaid work” for Desronvil has collected an amount noted as implicit $289,000. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has offered assistance, stating that if Desronvil is being harassed, “Florida volition supply asylum.” He added on X, “I’m definite he’d beryllium welcomed and appreciated.” —— EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes treatment of suicide. If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, the nationalist termination and situation lifeline successful the U.S. is disposable by calling oregon texting 988.