
September 18th, 2026
The lone juror who favored convicting Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that the other jurors would not listen to him, according to a statement released by his lawyer Friday in his first public comments on the case.
Eleven of the 12 jurors were prepared to clear Clancy of criminal responsibility, with the majority believing that the Massachusetts mother was in the grip of a rare condition called postpartum psychosis when she strangled her children.
However, juror Michael Desronvil sided with the prosecutors, who had argued that Clancy knew what she was doing.
“I harbored no doubts whatsoever,” Desronvil said in a statement released on X by his lawyer, Edward Paltzik.
The jury’s foreperson had claimed in an earlier media interview that Desronvil had admitted having “reasonable doubt” about Clancy’s guilt, but wanted to convict her anyway.
Desronvil said that wasn’t true.
“As I tried to explain the different possible theories during deliberation, I kept being interrupted, as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented,” he wrote.
“Based on all the physical evidence, the key witnesses, and what the prosecution presented, I thought there was enough proof that she (Clancy) knew exactly what she was doing and planned it.”
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The jury’s failure to reach a unanimous verdict forced the judge to declare a mistrial on Sept. 4, leaving the case unresolved.
The Plymouth County district attorney has not yet said whether he will seek to try Clancy again.
Neither side disputed that Clancy strangled her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan, in the family home in 2023 before trying to end her own life.
But her attorney said she was a loving mother experiencing deep delusions and other mental health problems, for which she had been getting treatment.
Since the trial ended, Desronvil has been both publicly praised and scorned for his actions, and his personal life and past financial and legal problems have become the subject of scrutiny by the news media and amateur sleuths.
Among the disclosures made public: at the time of jury selection, a restraining order was in effect against him, and he was confronting eviction from his apartment owing to more than $12,000 in unpaid rent.
He had also been accused of domestic violence in 2021, an allegation that was subsequently dismissed.
Opinion has, to some extent, fractured along political lines, with Desronvil being lauded by certain conservative pundits as a hero.
Paltzik, whose former clients include President Donald Trump and Martin Shkreli, said on X that Desronvil was in "an undisclosed secure location" in a rural area of northern New England and would not be giving interviews.
"As a devoted father and a man of God, he shall neither be defeated nor shattered by the wicked who wish him harm," Paltzik wrote.
A fundraiser to cover what organizers say are costs of “security, lawyers, and lost work” for Desronvil has raised over $289,000.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has extended a welcoming gesture toward him, remarking that should he be subjected to harassment, “Florida will provide asylum.”
“I have no doubt that he would be received with warmth and regarded with esteem,” DeSantis wrote on X.
September 18th, 2026

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