PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, has responded sharply to criticism from the lawyer representing the lone juror who favored convicting her. That attorney accused Reddington of filing “Looney Tunes” motions that jeopardize constitutional protections.
“I think Ed ought to learn how to go into the courtroom and articulate his position rather than be a histrionic individual that’s just mouthing off for the media,” Reddington told News Outlet.
Reddington was responding to social media comments and a recent interview by Edward Paltzik, the attorney for the holdout juror. Paltzik has described Reddington’s request for an investigation into the juror as “a full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution” and a threat to the Sixth Amendment’s due process guarantees for criminal defendants.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington speaks to reporters while jurors deliberate in the case against Lindsay Clancy, who is accused in the 2023 deaths of her three children. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP via Getty Images)
“Every motion that has been filed is legitimate,” Reddington said. “It’s all based on sound law, facts and jury questions, and I’m doing what I should do, representing Lindsay. And I’m pretty sure that Ed would have probably done the same thing, were it in Houston, and he was representing his client.”
During an interview with Ray Marcel, a YouTuber who broadcasts under the name FugitiveTV, Paltzik also called for Clancy to be executed. She has not been convicted of any crime, however, and Massachusetts has no death penalty.
Michael P. Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, which ended with a mistrial. (Fugitive TV)
“Ed, why don’t you just shut up?” Reddington said. “Really, you foul individual.”
Reddington added that he initially did not understand Paltzik’s “Shooter McGavin” reference. After someone explained the joke, however, he acknowledged that it was a humorous jab.
Paltzik answered back Friday.
“It’s really not complicated. I’m not backing down. I’m not backing off of it one inch. It should not be controversial at all that I called Lindsay Clancy a ‘demon.’ … She strangled her three innocent children,” he told News Outlet.
“My issue with Kevin Reddington is what happened after the mistrial when he got on the courthouse steps. He said Michael had an agenda. He said Michael robbed the other jurors. He said it. And you can’t do that as an officer of the court. It’s an attack on the system. And this motion to investigate him? It’s because Michael disagreed with Kevin Reddington.
“Kevin Reddington was doing his job, but the problem is it’s off the rails now. I’m speaking as a criminal defense attorney for almost 20 years. I would never criticize a juror. And I would never file a post-trial motion to investigate the juror.
“My real advice to Kevin — I think he should stop whining and go prepare for a retrial. Stop complaining. You only got 11, you needed 12.”
Kevin Reddington, Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, and Clancy watch as Judge William Sullivan, not pictured, instructs jurors to continue deliberating during her murder trial at Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on September 4, 2026. (Greg Derr / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
Reddington also objected to the juror being labeled the “lone holdout juror.”
“He is the obstructionist juror,” Reddington said.
Paltzik identified the juror as Michael Desronvil. Desronvil has said he believed Clancy was guilty of murdering her three young children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, who died by strangulation.
Callan, left, Dawson and Cora Clancy were killed at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)
The other 11 jurors disagreed and favored finding Clancy not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Their position reflected Reddington’s argument that Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible for her actions.
Due to the deadlock, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after a week of deliberations. Clancy is due back in court Tuesday for a hearing on several defense motions. Prosecutors may also announce plans to seek a second trial.
On January 24, 2023, Clancy fatally strangled her three children in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home using exercise resistance bands. She then cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window in a suicide attempt, leaving her partially paralyzed. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)
Reddington, in a motion filed last week, called for a “limited inquiry” into the holdout, for information about his background and potential criminal history, phone records, courthouse surveillance video and more.
In a separate filing, another attorney for Clancy, Martin Weinberg, argued that Sullivan’s decision to overrule a defense objection at trial should be grounds for dismissing the charges against the 36-year-old defendant on double jeopardy grounds. That motion also centered on the holdout juror and allegations that he ignored the judge’s instructions and the law.
Patrick Clancy exits Plymouth Superior Court, Plymouth, Mass., Monday, July27, 2026. (David McGlynn for News Outlet)
“The jury twice informed the Court that one of its members was refusing to apply the Court’s instructions regarding the fundamental concept of reasonable doubt,” Weinberg wrote. “After the first such report, the Court asked each juror individually whether he or she was able to apply the law. Upon receiving the second report, the Court tempered its response even further, simply reminding all jurors as a group of their obligation to follow its instructions generally. The Court denied Ms. Clancy’s explicit requests to go further.”
Weinberg’s motion argued that Sullivan’s decision to declare a mistrial before investigating the holdout is improper, alleging that the jury foreperson accused the holdout of making “statements acknowledging doubt but refus[ing] to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”
