Lindsay Clancy's attorney asks judge to investigate the lone juror who
wanted to convict her
[September 22, 2026]
MICHAEL CASEY
BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy is asking a judge to
investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the
Massachusetts mother of murder in the deaths of her three young
children.
In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyer asked
the court to question juror Michael Desronvil about his alleged use of a
cellphone during deliberations, his truthfulness on a questionnaire that
prospective jurors filled out before the trial began and his
truthfulness when jurors were questioned by the judge a day before the
trial ended.
Among other things, lawyer Kevin Reddington asked the court to obtain a
record of any calls or texts Desronvil made between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
on each day the jury deliberated. Phone use during deliberations is
prohibited in the state.
The judge declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after the jury insisted it
couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict, despite days of trying. Eleven of 12
jurors were ready to clear Clancy of criminal responsibility, with the
majority feeling that she was in the grip of a rare condition called
postpartum psychosis when she strangled her kids.
But Desronvil sided with the prosecutors, who had argued that Clancy
knew what she was doing.
Desronvil hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with his
service on the jury, though some other jurors complained that he was
inflexible in his opinion that Clancy was guilty. In a statement
released by his lawyer last week, Desronvil said he “didn’t have any
doubts.”
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Prosecutors have yet to say whether they plan on putting Clancy on
trial again. She remains charged with murder and is in a psychiatric
hospital until her case is resolved.
In another motion on Monday, another lawyer for Clancy, Martin
Weinberg, asked the judge to take the unusual step of dismissing the
criminal case, rather than putting on a new trial, on the grounds
that a mistrial shouldn't have been declared in the first place.
Weinberg argued that the judge should have replaced Desronvil with
an alternate during the deliberations after the jury foreperson
complained he was refusing to listen to the law on reasonable doubt.
“Contrary to the court’s stated believe at the time, it did have
viable choices other than declaring a mistrial,” Weinberg wrote.
A spokesperson for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz
would not comment on the motions.
At the trial, jurors heard from psychologists and clinicians who
treated Clancy for several months before the killings, when she was
suffering from worsening mental health problems that emerged after
the birth of her youngest child. She was released from a psychiatric
hospital less than three weeks before she killed her children.
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