This just in: the judge overseeing the Lindsay Clancy case has just delivered a significant setback to her lawyer’s bid to investigate the holdout juror.
As you may recall, the high-profile Clancy trial ended in a mistrial after one lone member of the jury — now identified as Michael Desronvil — refused to acquit Lindsay of murdering her three young kids.
Following the mistrial declaration, Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington has been targeting Michael Desronvil, accusing him of lying under oath about legal and financial issues he had in the past.
Reddington had asked Judge William F. Sullivan for a hearing to look into how Desronvil filled out his juror questionnaire.
However, the judge has now denied Reddington’s request.
Here are the details:
LINDSAY CLANCY: NEW RULING
Judge Sullivan has DENIED Lindsay Clancy's request for an evidentiary hearing into the lone holdout juror from her murder trial, which ended in a mistrial on September 4 after the jury deadlocked. The defense wanted to investigate whether the juror…
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October 21, 2026
LINDSAY CLANCY: NEW RULING
Judge Sullivan has DENIED Lindsay Clancy’s request for an evidentiary hearing into the lone holdout juror from her murder trial, which ended in a mistrial on September 4 after the jury deadlocked. The defense wanted to investigate whether the juror lied during jury selection, improperly used a cellphone or refused to follow the judge’s instructions. Judge Sullivan ruled that information uncovered AFTER the mistrial cannot be used to challenge whether declaring it was justified at the time. He also rejected the defense’s argument that the jury foreperson’s notes were unclear. The defense had also asked to postpone the upcoming hearing. That request was also DENIED. The judge has NOT ruled on Clancy’s motion to dismiss the three murder charges on double-jeopardy grounds, however. Arguments on that motion and the defense’s request for juror records remain scheduled for November 2.
On Wednesday, Judge Sullivan threw out Reddington’s request.
He ruled that the situation may only be evaluated based on what was known at the time, rather than any new information or allegations that surfaced after the mistrial was declared.
ABC News has more:
Following the high-profile trial, defense lawyers had argued last month that the indictment should be dismissed because the judge failed to properly inquire about the holdout juror before declaring the mistrial.
To argue that motion, defense lawyers requested that the judge hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the holdout allegedly lied on the jury questionnaire, used his phone during deliberations or failed to follow the judge’s instructions during the deliberations.
While Sullivan did not issue a ruling on those motions, he concluded that defense lawyers failed to prove they were entitled to the evidentiary hearing on the matter, writing that issues about the holdout juror that came to light after the mistrial was declared were irrelevant.
“It appears that Clancy seeks an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Juror Doe lied on the jury questionnaire about prior involvement with the criminal justice system,” Judge Sullivan wrote. “However, potential evidence of good cause to dismiss a deliberating juror that came to light only after a mistrial was declared simply is not relevant to whether there was a manifest necessity for a mistrial.”
At this time, Judge Sullivan has not decided whether or not there will be a retrial.
But, Lindsay Clancy is scheduled to have another hearing in a few weeks, where we should learn more about the next steps for the case.
Per the
New York Post:
Additionally, Sullivan ruled that digging further into the juror’s reasoning or the jury’s internal deliberations would be inappropriate under state law.
The defense was trying to prove juror misconduct to argue that the mistrial wasn’t a “manifest necessity,” a key legal avenue to try to stop prosecutors from retrying Clancy under double jeopardy protections.
While the judge blocked the request to call live witnesses or examine the holdout juror, Clancy’s motion to dismiss the charges remains pending and will be argued in court on Nov. 2.
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[ H/T WLT Report ]
