The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial said the public should stop focusing on him and look instead at the three children who were killed, calling them “three angels” who cannot speak, defend themselves or fight their own battles.
Michael Desronvil spoke Monday in a video aired on Fox News’ “Hannity,” his first direct public remarks since a mistrial was declared Sept. 4.
“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.”
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Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse from Connecticut, is charged with murder in the 2023 strangling deaths of her children in the family’s Massachusetts home. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, did not dispute that she committed the killings. He argued she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible. Prosecutors said she knew what she was doing and planned the acts.
After more than a month of testimony, the jury deadlocked on whether Clancy bore criminal responsibility. Fellow jurors later said the panel split 11-1 in favor of finding her not guilty by reason of insanity, with Desronvil as the holdout.
Desronvil has rejected claims that he harbored reasonable doubt and still pushed for a conviction. In an earlier statement released through his attorney, he said: “I didn’t have any doubts.” He added, “Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was enough proof that she (Clancy) knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”
He said that during deliberations he “kept getting cut off as if I had doubts.” His lawyer, Edward Paltzik, has said “Michael has zero doubt.”
Reddington has called Desronvil “the obstructionist juror” and asked the court to investigate other jurors’ allegations that he refused to apply the law on reasonable doubt. The defense has also moved to dismiss the charges.
In the video, Desronvil thanked God “for my Catholic faith” and “for blessing me with the ability to love my daughter.” He also thanked supporters.
“I would like to thank everyone, every individual that have supported me throughout this difficult situation,” he said. “Your prayers, your emotional support, your psychological support is a tremendous to my heart that I feel, that I sense, that I know.”
Clancy is due back in Plymouth Superior Court on Tuesday. Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry the case. Desronvil’s message was that the unfinished question is not his role on the jury, but whether Cora, Dawson and Callan — children who cannot speak for themselves — will receive a verdict matching what he said the evidence showed: that their mother knew what she was doing.
