Judge Says Lindsay Clancy Case Holdout Juror Will Not Face Phone Search or Inquiry

A Massachusetts judge ruled Wednesday that the lone juror who favored convicting Lindsay Clancy of murdering her three children will not have to surrender his phone for examination or submit to questioning by Clancy’s defense attorney.

Judge William Sullivan rejected a motion from Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, seeking an evidentiary hearing.

Sullivan wrote that the information potentially supporting the juror’s removal—identified in court filings as Juror Doe and understood to be Michael Desronvil—surfaced only after the mistrial had been declared. Under legal precedent, he said, that timing makes the evidence irrelevant.

The defense did not claim before the mistrial that Juror Doe had provided false information on his jury questionnaire, Sullivan wrote. That allegation emerged later through media reports.

“Because post-trial information potentially affecting Juror Doe’s impartiality cannot be used to challenge the finding that a mistrial was manifestly necessary, Clancy is not entitled to an evidentiary hearing on that issue,” Sullivan ruled. He also noted that Reddington did not raise the possibility of improper cellphone use by Juror Doe until after the mistrial.

Sullivan said any additional investigation into the holdout juror would be improper because courts are barred from examining a juror’s subjective reasoning, thought process, view of the case or relationship with fellow jurors. The court also cannot probe the jury’s deliberative content, collective reasoning or internal disagreements, he wrote.

In an interview with Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany last week, Desronvil said he remains firm in his decision not to join the other 11 jurors, who wanted Clancy found not criminally responsible because of postpartum psychosis.

Desronvil has begun referring to Clancy’s slain children as “The Three Angels.” They were Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.

He has also denied lying under oath on his juror questionnaire. Desronvil said jurors used their cellphones only during breaks in deliberations, and rejected claims by other jurors that he dismissed reasonable doubts in the case.

Reddington has asked the court to preserve records from all 12 jurors and six alternates. The requested materials include jury questionnaires, surveillance footage from the courthouse hallway outside the deliberation room and cellphone sign-in sheets.

However, he specifically sought an examination of Desronvil’s phone covering 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on each day of jury deliberations.

“Everybody had their cellphones and our cell phone was used when we had a break,” the holdout juror said. “So not during deliberation.”

Clancy is scheduled to return to court on Nov. 2.