Lindsay Clancy Juror Shares Newborn Photo Amid Fundraiser

The lone juror who would not vote to clear Lindsay Clancy of murder charges has received a wave of public support, including a growing fundraiser and a touching photograph of him with his newborn daughter.

Michael Desronvil, 48, was pictured cradling his baby girl in an image shared by his attorney, Edward Paltzik. The juror has reportedly faced alleged death threats and doxing after standing firm during the closely watched Lindsay Clancy trial.

Desronvil was unable to join the other 11 jurors in finding Clancy, 36, not guilty by reason of insanity in the deaths of her children. The deadlock ultimately forced the judge to declare a mistrial.

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, was prosecuted after authorities accused her of killing her three young children at the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 2023.

Her defense focused on her psychological condition at the time. Clancy did not dispute that she was responsible for the children’s deaths, but argued that postpartum psychosis left her legally insane and entitled her to an acquittal on that basis.

Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan were found strangled inside their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023.

After the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, several members spoke publicly about what they described as a deeply strained deliberation process.

According to those jurors, 11 supported finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, while Desronvil remained the sole holdout.

Afterward, several jurors criticized Desronvil, claiming he did not seriously engage with their reasoning. Some characterized his approach as “arrogant.”

Another juror described his conduct during deliberations as “shocking.”

Paula Devlin, 65, told Our News Outlet that Desronvil’s explanations for maintaining his guilty vote “made no sense” when the group questioned him. She also said he remained largely silent during the week-long discussions.

Rather than fully explaining why he believed Clancy was guilty, Devlin said, Desronvil appeared more concerned with regulating the tone and structure of the jury’s conversations.

“His biggest concern was that several people would sometimes try to speak at the same time, and that really upset him,” she said.

“He would become frustrated and tell us, ‘Listen to what she’s saying, listen to what he’s saying, and be respectful.’”

The jurors tried to explain that interruptions can occur naturally in conversation, particularly when someone loses their train of thought or struggles to find a word and another person helps complete the idea.

“But whenever that happened, he would get upset and spend a great deal of time lecturing us about respect,” Devlin said.

Devlin also claimed the holdout was a married man and rarely fraternized with the group during the trial, instead preferring to speak to his wife or watch videos on his phone.

Devlin said the 11 jurors who decided Clancy was not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the deaths of her kids felt ‘defeat’ and ‘anger’ when the mistrial was declared.

She told Our News Outlet: ‘I don’t want to bash anybody, even that person.

‘They did whatever they did for their reasons, and we will never know, and we will never understand.

‘That’s what hurts so much.’

Three other women who served as jurors also spoke out earlier this week.

‘We weren’t trying to figure out if she murdered the children, she did and she’s admitting to that. We’re trying to figure out: Did she know right from wrong at that time?’ jury foreperson Roni Carlson recounted to NBC Boston.

‘And with everybody saying she loved her children so much and everything proved she loved her children, from her journals to her mother-in-law, everything proved that she loved her children,’ Carlson continued. ‘So she had to have snapped.’

‘He had reasonable doubt. He admitted he had reasonable doubt,’ Carlson said.

‘I started filling out the forms, I was so excited. There were three forms I had to fill out, and then he said, ‘But I’m still not going to say she’s not guilty.”

The father from a Haitian immigrant family had a fundraiser launched ‘if they come for him, and they will’ to cover ‘security, lawyers and lost work,’ the GiveSendGo page said. 

After Desronvil was identified as the holdout juror he explained in a statement that ‘based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was enough proof that [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing.’

He doubled-down, emphasizing that he ‘didn’t have any doubts’ about Clancy’s guilt. 

The fundraiser garnered a flurry of donations in wake of the jurors identity surfacing publicly and reached over $361,970 as of Sunday evening. 

Desronvil received ‘death threats, doxxing and harassment’ following the trial’s collapse and reportedly had to leave his home, opting to stay at an ‘undisclosed secure location’ in New England, according to his attorney. 

In a statement on X, Paltzik said: ‘Michael will be making a personal statement in the near future, in his own words. But in the meantime, this is only me talking. I want to thank everyone who has sent me emails, texts, and voice messages over the last few days intended to support Michael. 

‘Thank you for being caring and nice people. I apologize profusely that I cannot respond to all of them right now but I wanted to say we really appreciate and notice every message, and it all matters a great deal. 

Every individual message that was sent matters a lot to us. I also want to say that if you disagree with us about anything that we say, that’s your right. In fact, I’d be concerned if every single person agreed with every single thing we say. This country was built on intelligent debate in the public square. 

‘That’s the same reason we support the good faith right of an individual juror to follow the evidence and the law to wherever they take him or her, free from fear of reprisal.’

Since the juror was pulled into the controversial case, it was revealed that the recently new father had previously faced domestic violence allegations and had an active restraining order against him, court records and police reports showed. 

NBC10 Boston revealed how he was allegedly charged with assault in September 2021 following an incident involving his then-wife. 

A police report obtained by the station said the man’s 13-year-old nephew called 911 and alleged his uncle had grabbed his wife around the throat before throwing her into a dresser.

The man’s mother was allegedly screaming, ‘You’re evil!’ as officers arrested him, according to the report cited by NBC10.

The criminal charge was ultimately dismissed, and the couple later divorced.

His ex-wife told the station that she had not wanted to testify because she feared she could lose custody of her daughter. But the juror allegedly became embroiled in another family confrontation years later.

Last year, the same nephew who had called police during the 2021 episode obtained a restraining order against his uncle, according to NBC10.

In an affidavit, the teenager accused his uncle of knocking him to the ground and repeatedly punching him in the face.

The nephew claimed his uncle told him: ‘You ruined my f***ing life,’ in an apparent reference to his earlier decision to call police.

‘You’ve had this coming your way for a long time,’ the juror allegedly added, according to the affidavit quoted by NBC10.

The restraining order was still active when the man was chosen to sit on the Clancy jury and throughout the weeks of evidence in the explosive case, the station reported. 

Family members contacted by NBC10 said they had been estranged from him since the alleged confrontation with his nephew and claimed they had no idea he had been serving on the Clancy jury.

One relative went further, describing him to the station as a ‘narcissist’ and saying she did not believe he should have been allowed to serve on such a consequential case.

Our News Outlet reached out to Paltzik and Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington for comment.