Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is still hunting the one man who refused to acquit her.
On Monday, Kevin Reddington asked Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan to investigate holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil, the same juror Reddington publicly smeared after the mistrial as a man with an “agenda” who “robbed” the other 11 jurors.
The filing, obtained by the New Haven Register, claims Desronvil may have given incomplete or inaccurate answers on jury questionnaires and during selection. It also asks the judge to dig into reported domestic-violence history and alleged cellphone use during deliberations.
Sullivan has already agreed to lock down jury questionnaires and related records. He has not ruled on Reddington’s demand that the court haul “Juror Doe” in for questioning.
This is not a search for truth. It is a defense lawyer trying to dirty up the only juror who would not look past three dead children.
Clancy does not deny what she did. On January 24, 2023, she sent her husband, Patrick, out of the Duxbury, Massachusetts, house for food and errands.
While he was gone she used exercise bands to strangle Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan. She then cut herself and jumped from a second-story window.
She is paralyzed from the waist down. Callan died days later. The defense never contested the killings. It argued postpartum psychosis and overmedication so she should be found not criminally responsible. Prosecutors said she planned it, separated the children, and knew exactly what she was doing.
After a six-week trial and nearly 40 hours of deliberations, the jury deadlocked 11-1. Judge Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Eleven jurors were ready to clear her. One was not.
As The Gateway Pundit reported the day of the mistrial, Reddington went after that juror on the courthouse steps. He said the other jurors “know that they were robbed by one man for whatever his agenda was.”
He said he hoped “that guy can sleep well at night.” He had already tried, and failed, to get Sullivan to throw the holdout off the panel, accusing him of refusing to apply the reasonable-doubt instruction. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declined to intervene.
Fellow jurors then went on television and piled on. They called him arrogant. They said he scrolled a phone. One said he picked up an exercise band and demonstrated a strangling on a water bottle. NBC Boston and other outlets ran with the smear. Desronvil was identified, doxxed, and threatened. He relocated. His lawyer, Edward Paltzik, called him an “American hero” and a “champion of justice” and told the mob to stay away from him.
Desronvil finally answered. In a statement first reported by NewsNation and covered by The Gateway Pundit, he said he “didn’t have any doubts.”
“As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented,” he said. “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.”
That is the man Reddington now wants investigated.
According to reporting on the motion by the New Haven Register and the New York Post, Reddington styled the target as “Juror Doe.”
He wants the court to preserve questionnaires, the jury summons, cellphone sign-in sheets from deliberation days, and phone metadata from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on those days.
He wants a look at statewide domestic-violence registry records and any Plymouth County matters in which the juror was a defendant, complainant, or subject over the last five years.
Then he wants Sullivan to question Desronvil, in front of both sides, about whether he told the truth in voir dire, whether he used a phone or took in outside information in the jury room, and whether he was still fair when he swore he could be on September 3.
The motion says the inquiry “will not touch the substance of deliberations.”
Local reporting has described a 2021 domestic-violence charge that was later dismissed, an active civil restraining order tied to an allegation involving a nephew, and eviction proceedings around the time of the trial.
Those are allegations and court records, not a conviction that automatically disqualifies a juror. Reddington wants them treated as if they prove the holdout never should have been seated.
Clancy is scheduled to return to Plymouth Superior Court on September 29. Judge Sullivan is expected to consider defense motions, including Reddington’s request to dismiss the charges. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz is also expected to announce whether prosecutors will seek a retrial.
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