The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder case said he’s experienced harassment, media attention, and became fearful for his family after the mistrial.
Michael Desronvil told Kayleigh McEnany on Fox and Friends that the fallout from the mistrial affected not only him, but his family and children too, saying at one point his fiancee needed to be escorted out of their residence.
“Of course, [I’ve] been scared, been fortunate that, you know, that the town that I live in there’s a bunch of great people that live there,” Desronvil said. “Great people and business owners and church folks and police department and fire department that [have] been tremendously helpful for me, my fiancee, and my daughter, you know, throughout this period for sure.”
Desronvil had just moved into his new apartment when he was selected for jury duty in the high-profile case. After weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberation, the jury couldn’t reach a unanimous decision on whether Clancy was guilty of killing her three children. Eleven jurors voted that she was not guilty by reason of insanity, while Desronvil remained steadfast in voting guilty.
The jury foreperson said that the holdout juror had expressed reasonable doubt but refused to apply it to his verdict. When McEnany asked whether he had any reasonable doubt, Desronvil said, “No.”
“I had a lot of evidence to back up my claim,” Desronvil said. “But because, out of respect [for] the other jurors in the court system, I will put that to sleep for now until, you know, they go through the process of the court system.”
Desronvil described listening to the 911 call that Clancy’s husband, Patrick Clancy, made when he found his children. The call has not been released and Desronvil said, as a father, it weighed on him.
“It was surreal, you know, hearing the pain in his voice, hearing the desperation from that clip,” Desronvil said. “It was surreal.”
After news broke that a single juror was the reason behind the mistrial, Desronvil said journalists began showing up at his house the next day, and reporters were also allegedly caught rummaging through his mail.
“We have, uh, surveillance cameras and then we have actual footage of them going through our mails, and then going to the back door, the front door, peeking through the windows,” Desronvil said. “So we have proof of that.”
Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, spoke out after the mistrial was declared, using he/him pronouns when referencing the holdout juror. With only three men on the jury, the distinction significantly narrowed down the pool.
In subsequent interviews with other jurors, one woman told CBS News that the juror was a black man, of which there was only one. Desronvil said he believed Reddington put a target on his back.
Desronvil also addressed domestic violence allegations stemming from charges in 2021 that were dropped.
“It was an incident between myself and my ex-wife, you know, that got blown out of proportion,” Desronvil said. “There was no physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, or any assaults.”
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Desronvil added that he relied on his faith to help get him through the aftermath, explaining what he has done to move forward.
“Prayer, prayer and reading my Bible,” Desronvil said. “I do have a discipline of reading my Bible and constantly praying. So through my faith.”
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[ H/T Washington Examiner ]
