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 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.