Lindsay Clancy Juror Breaks Silence: ‘Put the Focus on the Three Angels’

Michael Desronvil, the juror whose refusal to convict Lindsay Clancy ended her murder trial in a mistrial, made his first public statement Monday — and spent most of it trying to make sure it wasn’t about him.

According to The Daily Wire, Desronvil’s attorney, Edward Paltzik, released the remarks in which Desronvil introduced himself, thanked his supporters, and then steered the conversation toward the three children at the center of the case.

“I know the whole focus has been on me, but we want to reel everything back and put the focus on the three angels that’s at hand,” Desronvil said.

He named them: “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.”

Clancy was accused of strangling her three young children, Cora, Dawson and Callan, at the family’s Massachusetts home in January 2023. She had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and the case ended in a mistrial when the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict, with Desronvil the lone holdout.

Faith, family, and a message of thanks

Desronvil used part of his statement to offer a short personal inventory — his family, his faith, and the people who stood with him through roughly two weeks of public and private pressure that followed the mistrial.

“I want to thank God for my Catholic faith,” he said. “I want to thank God for blessing me with the ability to love my daughter. And foremost, I would like to thank everyone, every individual, that has supported me throughout this difficult situation.”

He singled out those who had offered prayers, emotional and psychological support, or spoken on his behalf in public since the trial began to fall apart along the fault lines of his single vote.

“I do want to thank you from the bottom of my heart,” he said.

For weeks, the message came through proxies

Monday’s statement was the first time Desronvil had addressed the public in his own voice since the trial ended. Until now, he had communicated only through intermediaries.

When several of his fellow jurors gave interviews criticizing him, he answered through YouTuber Ray Marcel, who publishes under the name FugitiveTV. Desronvil’s public posture since the mistrial has been one of retreat: he has reportedly gone into hiding as other jurors joined defense attorney Kevin Reddington in attacking his refusal to vote to convict.

Paltzik, his attorney, appeared on Fox News with host Kayleigh McEnany over the weekend to push back on the accusations from the other jurors and from Reddington — namely that Desronvil had ignored the law and had harbored doubt about the case. The attorney’s media appearance was the first sign that Desronvil’s team was moving from written statements issued through surrogates to a more direct public defense.

Reddington presses for records and an investigation

Reddington, Clancy’s defense attorney, has not let the mistrial close the book. Roughly two weeks after the case ended, he asked a judge to preserve records from all 12 jurors — juror questionnaires, surveillance video recorded outside the deliberation room, and sign-in sheets for the jurors’ electronic devices. The breadth of the request covered the whole panel, but Reddington’s target was plain.

As The Daily Wire previously reported, Reddington also asked the judge to probe whether prosecutors had any contact with Desronvil and to order an “independent examination” into his phone records from each day of deliberations.

Reddington has additionally called for an investigation into Desronvil as part of his continued effort to get the 48-year-old removed from the jury retroactively — a legal maneuver that would not undo the mistrial but would formally attach misconduct to the juror whose vote hung the panel.

An unusual public fight over a hung jury

Hung juries are usually quiet, anonymous affairs. Jurors disperse, the panel’s internal disagreements stay sealed in the deliberation room, and prosecutors decide whether to retry. This one has spilled out in every direction: televised interviews from jurors who voted to convict, an attorney-level campaign to preserve evidence and scrutinize a holdout’s phone records, and a defendant’s attorney publicly calling for an investigation into the person who blocked his client’s conviction.

The pressure campaign has also given Desronvil a public identity he did not seek, which is why his first statement opened with an attempt to shed it. His framing — that the children, not the juror, deserve the attention — is likely to be the refrain of his team as the fight over records and his place on the panel continues.

Whether the judge grants Reddington’s preservation request or clears the way for a look at Desronvil’s phone records remains the next concrete decision point in a case that has already produced a mistrial and a missing verdict. For now, Desronvil’s position is unchanged: he is not the story, he said, and he would like the record to reflect that.

Source: www.dailywire.com — https://www.dailywire.com/news/lindsay-clancy-holdout-seen-on-camera-for-first-time-with-defiant-message