The lone juror who would not vote to acquit Lindsay Clancy has reportedly left his Massachusetts home after supporters of the convicted mother allegedly exposed his personal information online.
Michael P. Desronvil, identified by NewsNation, is now staying elsewhere following the collapse of Clancy’s trial, according to his newly retained attorney, Edward Andrew Paltzik.
“He is presently safe and sound at an undisclosed secure location in a rural area of Northern New England,” Paltzik said in a statement, describing his client as an “American Hero and Champion of Justice.”
The lawyer said he intends to pursue those who allegedly targeted Desronvil, promising to hold the “evil people who have so viciously attacked” him accountable to the “maximum extent of the law and beyond.”
Paltzik added that Desronvil has remained strong, crediting his “devout Catholic Faith” for helping him endure the backlash.
“As a devoted father and man of God, he will not be defeated or shattered by the wicked who wish harm upon him,” the attorney said.
According to Paltzik, Desronvil is a patriotic American who supports President Donald Trump, considers the United States “the greatest country in the world” and views the Constitution as “the pinnacle of human liberty.”
The juror has also attracted widespread support from people who believe Clancy should have been convicted in the deaths of her three children.
A GiveSendGo fundraiser created to assist with Desronvil’s security expenses, legal fees and lost income had collected more than $280,000 in donations.
Michael Desronvil said he had “no doubts” about his position during the Lindsay Clancy trial
The Lindsay Clancy case triggered fierce debate nationwide. Clancy acknowledged strangling her children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan—but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity
The fundraiser celebrated Desronvil’s decision to stand firm while the other 11 jurors reportedly pressed him to support a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict in the case involving Clancy’s three children.
“One juror held his seat. He looked at what she did, not the brand of Zoloft. So the defense demanded the judge throw him off the jury for ‘not following reasonable doubt,’” the organizer wrote.
“The judge left him on. The jury hung. Mistrial. Now she can be tried again for killing her children instead of getting a standing ovation for her symptoms.”
“We’re not letting this slide.”
Desronvil, who is not expected to give further interviews under his attorney’s direction, addressed the trial publicly on Thursday in an interview with NewsNation.
He told the outlet that he “didn’t have any doubts,” contradicting earlier comments attributed to the jury foreperson.
“As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberations, I kept getting cut off as I had doubts based on the evidence present,” he said.
A GiveSendGo fundraiser created to pay for Desronvil’s “security, lawyers, and lost work” had raised more than $280,000
Desronvil has retained attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik, pictured, who has vowed to pursue those accused of attacking his client to the “maximum extent of the law and beyond”
The juror explained to the network that based on all the evidence he ‘thought it was enough proof that she [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing and planned’ to kill her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan.
He also shared his thoughts about the high-profile case in an interview with Ray Marcel of Fugitive TV, saying he was convinced Clancy ‘knew right from wrong.’
The true crime host told NewsNation: ‘He felt that she was sane when she did it. And that’s exactly what he told me.’
Jury foreperson Roni Carlson previously told NBC 10 that the holdout juror ‘admitted he had reasonable doubt,’ but Marcel reported this was disputed.
Marcel did not show their conversation directly, but he said Desronvil told him over an hour-long phone call that he felt the need to speak his mind because other jurors slandered him in the media after the trial.
‘He said some of the things they’ve said about him is either not the whole truth, the half-truth, or outright lies,’ Marcel said, including that the juror rejected their assertions he had ‘reasonable doubt’ about Clancy’s guilt.
Clancy’s trial sharply divided opinion after she admitted strangling her three children, but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity.
Ray Marcel, host of Fugitive TV, revealed a conversation with the holdout juror, who told him he held firm in his guilty vote because he was never convinced the mother was legally insane
The jury ended in a controversial 11-1 deadlock. Podcast host Marcel said the holdout juror told him their 40 hours of deliberations were contentious from the outset.
Since the verdict, there has been a wild social media race to identify him. Now he has come forward to publicly share his side.
NBC Boston published details of domestic violence allegations against him, but did not reveal his identity. They stem from a dispute involving his ex-wife.
In his phone call with YouTube host Marcel, the juror explained his decision to convict was based on ‘preparation she [Clancy] did’ before killing her children, including sending her husband Patrick out for errands before attacking the kids.
The holdout juror also said he had been stunned by the vitriol he faced after he voted to convict Clancy, and felt the backlash from his fellow jurors was because he was a ‘black Republican,’ Marcel claimed.
After NBC Boston reported that the holdout juror was accused of domestic violence, which he was arrested but never prosecuted for in 2021, questions swirled over how he was admitted to the case – as potential jurors are required to disclose if they have ever been arrested or charged with a crime in the past.
Marcel said Desronvil insisted that he never lied to the court, and he ‘checked the box he was supposed to check’ on juror questionnaire forms, but was selected anyway.
He said Desronvil told him the allegations stemmed from a turbulent ‘fraudulent marriage,’ and their relationship rapidly deteriorated when he allegedly discovered she was an illegal immigrant.
Clancy used exercise bands to fatally strangle her children in 2023
The case ended in a mistrial earlier this month and prosecutors have not yet indicated if they intend to retry her or offer a plea deal
‘He didn’t know that, and he told me that’s pretty much when everything hit the fan,’ Marcel said on his YouTube show.
He said Desronvil told him that his former partner raised domestic violence allegations in retaliation after he filed for divorce.
In 2025, the holdout juror was also alleged to have attacked his nephew by shoving him to the ground and striking him in the face, according to reported restraining order documents obtained by NBC Boston.
The juror was also not prosecuted over that incident, the outlet reports, and Marcel said Desronvil told him that he did not want to get into those allegations beyond saying that ‘the truth will come out.’
‘He said he knew that she was guilty because of the evidence that he saw,’ Marcel recalled. ‘He felt she was not insane at the time and knew what she was doing.’
Desronvil reportedly insisted that despite the deliberations ending in deadlock, the jury was not unanimously against the holdout juror from the start and their conversations began with just eight jurors wanting to acquit Clancy.
‘They were doing their best to convince,’ Marcel said, adding that two of the jurors were undecided, and the holdout juror had at least one other person who also believed she was guilty.
Clancy admitted to killing her children, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity as she claimed she was suffering postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated
Marcel said Desronvil told him the other juror was on his side ‘until the last moment,’ at which point she ‘caved and voted with the rest.’
‘He said he didn’t know if it was due to the pressure (from the other jurors), but he didn’t care,’ Marcel continued.
‘He said he knew that she was guilty because of the evidence that he saw. He felt she was not insane at the time and knew what she was doing.’
Over 40 hours of deliberations, Marcel said Desronvil told him the conversations grew agitated, and at one point he used a water bottle and a piece of string to demonstrate the force Clancy would have used to strangle her children to death.
‘He tied a string around the water bottle, and did it to set an example and show people, “Imagine the water bottle as their little necks,”‘ he recalled.
Asked what convinced the holdout juror of Clancy’s guilt, Marcel told NewsNation that he was told that he felt ‘she was sane by the preparation she did’ before strangling her children.
Marcel told NewsNation that the fact Clancy ‘took her time’ strangling each child, some in separate rooms, also helped sway Desronvil’s decision.
The holdout juror attempted to convince others of Clancy’s guilt by using a water bottle and string to demonstrate how she strangled their ‘little necks,’ Marcel revealed
‘The preparation showed that she was sane and knew what she was doing, pretty much knew right from wrong, before she did what she did,’ Marcel said Desronvil told him.
Marcel explained he decided to share the juror’s perspective amid the huge response and vitriol directed at the holdout juror.
‘No matter if you agree with him or not, his name shouldn’t have been put out there like that,’ the Fugitive TV host said.
‘No juror should be put to the forefront like that, because it’s their civic duty to do that, and they should be protected. He never asked for any of this whatsoever.’
