Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan on Monday to investigate Michael Desronvil, the holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial, and the filing centers on jury pictures and other materials tied to jury selection. The request lands before Clancy returns to Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts on Sept. 29.
Reddington told the judge that Desronvil may have answered jury forms or questions inaccurately. He also asked for review of Desronvil’s alleged domestic violence history and his use of a cellphone during deliberations.
Plymouth Superior Court filing
Judge William Sullivan has agreed to impound jury information and questionnaires filed before the trial. He has not yet ruled on the motion, leaving the defense request in place while the case moves toward Sept. 29.
The filing pushes the court to look more closely at jury selection and deliberations after the mistrial. That scrutiny matters because it reaches the process that produced the lone holdout, not just the verdict result.
Desronvil was the only juror who called for guilty verdicts. The other 11 jurors voted not guilty because they believed Clancy suffered from postpartum psychosis.
Michael Desronvil and deliberations
Desronvil, 48, was described as a father. His role now sits at the center of the defense request, which asks the judge to examine whether anything in his background or conduct should have kept him off the panel.
Pictures from Prince Harry's private birthday trip show how closely readers track public figures, and the same kind of attention now follows the Clancy case as the court considers whether the juror issue should be examined further.
The dispute also sits beside Patrick Clancy’s public account of the case. During a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night, he said he believed his ex-wife was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed their children.
Sept. 29 in Plymouth
Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Callan, Cora, and Dawson. Reddington is expected to ask that the charges be dropped on Sept. 29, while Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz is expected to announce whether Clancy will face a retrial.
The 48-year-old juror’s name now sits inside a filing that could affect whether the mistrial is revisited before the court reaches the retrial question. If Sullivan acts on the motion, the defense will know whether the panel that deadlocked can be examined before the next step in Plymouth Superior Court.
