Holdout Juror Fights Back After Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Seeks His Phone Records — Spokesperson Says OTHER Jurors Were on Phones and Posting During Deliberations

The Gateway Pundit ^ | September 24, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

[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.

[Danie_2023]

“”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:””

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Yes, and it is the same “demon-inspired” supporters of Floyd then... as it is now re: the Clancy-supporters. They support evil and champion those that commit it. And as usual, evil is falsely perceived as insanity to those of us that can’t wrap our brain around such vile behavior.

[Albion Wilde]

Here is what showed up on Pookie's toons today:

[frank ballenger]

So not totally rogue like a criminal's (stolen?) phone?

Of course I followed the law and bought it at a store. In that way the actual criminals would reject me as a loser and a conformist. Can't please everybody.

[Fai Mao]

I find it interesting that of the various replies here I’ve made on this forum, this one got the most replies to me that I can remember.

[muir_redwoods]

Hard not to love it. Father of the year candidate

[rlmorel]

Certainly if you are a Leftist and you identify as a Christian, it means nothing.

Especially at Talarico's St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Austin Texas, where the lesbian minster "Babs" Miller says the following:

• On Jesus’ historical existence:
  “We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed, any more than we have of knowing that the original Buddha ever existed. And whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me.” She added that the message attributed to someone named Jesus “could have all been made up for all I know.”
  
  
• On the virgin birth:
  She dismissed it as stemming from pagan beliefs: “Mary and the virgin birth come out of the pagan belief that the gods came down and impregnated people, that people were still hanging on to at that time.”
  
  
• On the crucifixion and atonement:
  “Jesus was political. Jesus was put on that cross, not to save us; Jesus was put on that cross because Rome hated Him and they thought He was a threat to their domination of that area. And so they killed Him. He didn’t die to save our sins.” She preferred viewing him as a social-justice figure and said the idea that “some God would kill His Son for us… doesn’t make sense.”
  
  
• On God (especially Old Testament portrayals):
  She described the God of the Old Testament as “not a loving God” and “vengeful.” Overall approach to religion: She compared her approach to a 12-step program—“Take what you want and leave the rest.”

And she doesn't believe in the Resurrection.

Honestly, I was astonished to see and hear her say these things aloud on camera. But that is what these people are, deceivers, false witnesses to God. She thought she was in friendly company.

She is the one who said he is just saying those things to get elected, and as soon as he gets elected, he will go right back to what he was.

That church may be something, perhaps the despicable Universalists or something like that, but they are not Christians.

I guess if you are a Leftist, and you believe in your heart in Christ, then you can be a Christian maybe (not in any way, shape, or form at this "church") but even if you were at a real church, wouldn't you have to repent of your sins of embracing homosexuality, murder of infants, and so on?

Doesn't repentance of sin go hand in hand with belief in Christ, The Resurrection, and that he is who he says he was? I thought there were two parts, belief and repentance, and they must both be true for saving your soul. Am I wrong in this?

[rlmorel]

I saw that. God Bless and protect this worthy man, because evil is stalking him.

[Seruzawa]

Lol. Not much of a Luddite if you are posting on the FR.

[ek_hornbeck]

Who wants every George Floyd statue replaced with The Lone Juror statue

Since George Floyd was a convicted armed robber, almost any other person would be preferable for a statue.

As to the sole voice of sanity on the jury, Michael Desronvil, it's no surprise that there's an effort to smear him on trumped up "domestic violence" history, not so much because of his vote on the jury but because of his general conservative beliefs.

Clancy's lawyers tried to pad the jury with shrieking feminists, but they couldn't get away with a jury composed entirely of lesbian harpies, so they rolled the dice and allowed a black man on the assumption that blacks are liberals who will march lock-step with every leftist insanity. The move backfired for Clancy's attorney, because first of all, the Left's coalition consists of mutually incompatible views and people, and second because Desronvil turned out not to be a leftist "social justice warrior" type at all!

[Honorary Serb]

❤️

[Albion Wilde]

Clancy's lawyers tried to pad the jury with shrieking feminists, but they couldn't get away with a jury composed entirely of lesbian harpies, so they rolled the dice and allowed a black man on the assumption that blacks are liberals who will march lock-step with every leftist insanity. The move backfired

Big time! God is good!

[dforest]

The Caleb Flynn trial is through with week one today.

The total difference and seriousness between how this trial is being conducted in Ohio as opposed to that freak show in Massachusetts is a lesson on how a trial should be.

Still a clown show in Massachusetts.

[Scarlett156]

Dude isn’t the nicest person in the world, but he deserves enormous credit for standing up to those hags.

[PGalt]

Thanks Albion Wilde. ❤️

[Albion Wilde]

Just spreading a moment of good news, FRiend.

[DPMD]

I can recall a few decades ago when the dem party and their “feminist” backers were all “for the children.” It now takes a village to smile in approval of child murderers, both in utero and beyond.

[Albion Wilde]

[frank ballenger]

Lol. Not much of a Luddite if you are posting on the FR.

True.

I would prefer using pen and yellow legal pads, sending out mail and getting replies by mail. But Free Republic staff told me to fuhhhgggedddaboutit.