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Posted on 09/24/2026 7:44:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is pushing back after Clancy’s defense asked a judge to investigate his conduct and obtain cellphone records from the jury’s deliberations.
Edward Paltzik, attorney for juror Michael Desronvil, blasted the motion as “Looney Tunes” and a “full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution.” He warned that investigating jurors for standing by their views could threaten the independence of jury deliberations, CT Insider reported.
Below is the full statement from Paltzik:
"The Looney Tunes motion filed yesterday by Kevin "Shooter McGavin" Reddington to investigate Michael is not just an attack on Michael for being the courageous lone holdout juror. Reddington's motion is actually a full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution. Because if the new normal is that jurors are going to face brutal reprisals for disagreeing with a defense attorney, you can kiss the Sixth Amendment goodbye.
To anyone who thinks that Reddington's motion is OK, just remember that the tables will inevitably turn. Imagine a similar trial sometime in the not too distant future where it is the reverse scenario: 11-1 in favor of guilty, with one holdout favoring not guilty by reason of insanity. I doubt you folks would be alright if the District Attorney then filed a motion to investigate that lone holdout standing in the way of a conviction.
That's why this is actually not a partisan issue. Really, this is a "do we still want to have a Sixth Amendment" issue. If you are like me and believe steadfastly in the Constitution, it's easy to see how, regardless of your party affiliation, this is an absolutely terrible path of ruin Reddington wants to take us down.
If we follow his destructive proposal to its logical conclusion, we're going to have an endless cycle of prosecutors investigating holdouts who oppose "guilty" and defense attorneys investigating holdouts who oppose "not guilty." Pretty soon we'll end up with with a retrograde justice system that will look a lot like the Hatfield-McCoy Feud: a cycle of carnage so malignant that its origins will fade in importance, replaced by the hopeless death spiral of the cycle itself.
Kevin Reddington's disgusting motion to investigate Michael is worthy of nothing but universal condemnation. This is certainly not the final word from us on this subject, but merely our first words. It's all going to backfire spectacularly on sore loser Reddington."
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Kevin Reddington, Clancy's attorney, asked Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan to investigate holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil, the same juror Reddington publicly smeared after the mistrial as a man with an “agenda” who “robbed” the other 11 jurors.
The filing, obtained by the New Haven Register, claims Desronvil may have given incomplete or inaccurate answers on jury questionnaires and during selection. It also asks the judge to dig into reported domestic-violence history and alleged cellphone use during deliberations.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked the court to examine whether Desronvil used his phone during deliberations and whether he answered jury-selection questions truthfully.
The motion also seeks cellphone records and other information about the juror. Phone use during deliberations is prohibited in Massachusetts, but the allegations have not been proven.
The jury deadlocked 11–1, and the judge declared a mistrial on September 4.
Eleven jurors reportedly supported finding Clancy not criminally responsible because of her mental condition; Desronvil maintained that the prosecution’s evidence showed she knew what she was doing.
Clancy admitted killing her three children, but the trial did not produce a verdict on her criminal responsibility.
Desronvil had already disputed other jurors’ accounts of deliberations. In a statement reported by NewsNation, he said he had no doubts and believed the evidence showed Clancy knew what she was doing.
The case is scheduled to return to court on September 29. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek a retrial.
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Yes, all 11 of them.................
OMG as a nation America is in real trouble. THIS is our jury pool? It’s demoralizing.
If they were on their phones for whatever reason, they were breaking the law, and a mistrial would be the correct solution. The next jury, if they decide to retry her, should have no phones at all in the deliberation room........
My point is that the lawyer probably may not have filed the motion at all if the holdout juror hadn't come forward on his own -- even though he had already been identified in the media. I don't think the lawyer would have wanted to touch that one based only on statements made by the OTHER jurors.
I've been involved in several court cases where something like this unfolded. Fact X is critical to the case. Both the plaintiff and defendant know it, but it can't be introduced into the case immediately because it is covered by some form of legal protection. The defense would prefer that it remain hidden forever.
So the plaintiff gets Fact X introduced into the case during the discovery process by issuing a subpoena, and during the course of various arguments over a motion to suppress the subpoena it comes out that the defense was legally obligated to share it with a third party not related to the case and therefore couldn't shield it as "protected" information.
No definitely not. Still how does a nation that is seeing rises in those who identify as Christian produce such an abysmal jury?
identifying as Christian is meaningless ... what do they believe and how do they live?
Life these days is so amazing... and surprising. And ironic....to say the very least.
It’s a constant lesson... showing us things we never imagined possible. I just hope and pray that we are learning enough from these lessons.
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That’s one of many good things about your state (formerly my state): that d*ckhead attorney would be trying to ‘splain himself before the bar committee after a DeSantis official lodged a complaint against him.
Bullish is enthusiastically waving his hand in affirmation.
At my County Courthouse cell phones a completely forbidden. You can’t even bring one into the building.
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Yup!
Sad but true.
That’s because they have no morals whatsoever.
I’d love to see that.
Agreed.
Yup! The Floyd turd statues need to be chopped up and thrown in the dump with the destroyed Civil War Southern U.S. Soldiers.
People throw the word "brave" around a lot.
This was actually brave.
I do.
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