Holdout Juror Defends 1 Guilty Vote in Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 18
Holdout Juror Defends 1 Guilty Vote in Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 18
Summary
Michael P. Desronvil, the lone juror who voted to convict Lindsay Clancy, said Friday he had no doubt she was guilty of killing her three children.
Physical evidence, key witnesses and the prosecution's case convinced him Clancy knew what she was doing and had planned it, he said in a statement released through his lawyer.
Desronvil also said other jurors repeatedly cut him off when he tried to raise theories during roughly 38 hours of deliberations that ended in an 11-1 deadlock and mistrial.
Clancy, 36, admitted strangling her children in January 2023, but her defense argued postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible; prosecutors have not said whether they will retry her.
The case has drawn national attention and intense scrutiny of the jury, especially Desronvil, while Clancy remains in a state-run psychiatric center.