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.
Yes, indeed!
I hate to say this, but cell phones probably should be confiscated during deliberations since the jurors can’t be trusted to not cheat.
“What is really disturbing is one or two of these women ARE NURSES”!
I’m guessing you haven’t been in a hospital in a while. They’re pretty awful and nasty, across the board.
“a parent struggling with severe depression might be unable to meet their child’s basic needs”
If “struggling” is supposed to be a justification for murder, then kill the parent and LEAVE THE CHILDREN ALONE!
“Why are they allowed to have their phones while they’re deliberating?”
I thought / posted the same thing. The trouble is that after deliberations they’ll be connected again. The only way to make that work is if they’re sequestered, which these scofflaws were not.
They’ll have all those non-deliberation hours to research, discuss with family/friends, and conspire with the attorney which we know they did.
Reddington should not have KNOWN FOR A FACT that the 11-1 vote was in Clancy’s favor. It could’ve been the opposite. But he knew, and how did he know? Communication.
If the "burner phone" "with prepaid minutes" was bought from a regular retail store, is it still registered in the buyer's name when purchased? So not totally rogue like a criminal's (stolen?) phone?
“can’t hurt to have a reputation as a destroyer of jurors who disagree with him.”
That’s clear. The MA Bar Association should’ve given this guy the hook the day the verdict was read and he went all contempt-of-court. Screaming at the judge. Demanding that the one juror’s vote should be ignored. He defiled the judicial system in that state forever, they know it, and they don’t care.
But you HAVE and USE a computer, so ... not a Luddite.
Hubby was all annoyingly sanctimonious about his no-cellphone stance. I knew there’d come a time when he’d change his mind. One day he was riding his bike on a back road near Corning, NY, and was hit, and hurt, by a car which left the scene. It was a while before another car came by to help him.
Next day, off to the Verizon store.
Hopefully, you’ll never have an emergency and no way to call for help.
“At my County Courthouse cell phones a completely forbidden. You can’t even bring one into the building.”
Here in our county in TN. You can bring a cell phone into the building if your business is on the first floor. If you’re going to the second floor where Justice offices and the Courtroom are, absolutely no cell phones are allowed.
Is that an actual Floyd statue???
Take away phones from females and you may start a civil war. They are addicted to social media and need validation on a daily basis.
Oh! I have a Consumer Cellular - $20.00 a month..I use it to call the power company when the power is out and otherwise it’s never used. I had to call the power company a couple of weeks ago when power was out and I had to get the instruction book out because I couldn’t remember how to place a call - that’s how often it’s used. I have a Medical Alert devise always with me so there’s that for emergencies - works off cell tower...
2020 six weeks.... mostly black........
I think they melted many of them down for the valuable copper or bronze. I remember seeing a picture of the gleeful BLMs pulling down the horse-mounted statue Robert E. Lee from the center of Richmond accompanied by a photo of Lee's face from the statue surrounded by flames in a blast oven. That image broke my heart.
Lee was offered the general rank by both sides in the CW. He had been commandant of West Point, and was widely regarded not only as a superior war strategist but also as a noble and righteous man. Ultimately he elected to defend his homeland, basically fighting defense entirely in the South until the last, decisive battle when the Southern army entered the North at Gettysburg. Even the university he endowed that had originally funded by George Washington has recently moved Lee's sarcophagus from the W&L chapel and removed commemorative plaques from the place where the students benefit from his generosity and foresight.
After an outcry from many alumni and others, here is Washington & Lee University's sanitized response:
Statement Regarding the Relocation of Plaques to a New Exhibit in University Chapel
No, it is not!
That image of a statue is not real. It was created by AI. It depicts the one black male juror who wanted to find Lindsay Clancy guilty of murdering her children, and held out against eleven other jurors, nine of whom were women. He is a hero for justice.
The most ironic comparison between George Floyd and the Lone Juror, who stood up for the children rather than the allegedly mentally ill mother is this:
George Floyd 's second felony conviction for armed robbery (he had a string of felonies in all) was for threatening a pregnant woman by pointing his gun at her unborn baby if she did not give in to the robbery.
So a Mass jury would have declared him innocent?
Not the point. The point is the sympathy because he was black for a multiple felon who threatened to execute an innocent woman via her fetus—versus the hypocritical persecution of a black male Lone Juror because he held out against fierce opposition for the sake of justice for innocent children.
I’m guessing you haven’t been in a hospital in a while. They’re pretty awful and nasty, across the board.
Like the two other majority-female professions—teachers and librarians. Some of the most rabid leftists afflicting our children and communities.
I’m in.
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