The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial spoke out this week, confirming that he was convinced she was criminally responsible for the murder of her children.
“I didn’t have any doubts,” Michael Péguy Desronvil said in a Sep. 18 statement posted by his attorney on social media.
Desronvil’s refusal to side with the other jurors prevented Clancy’s acquittal, possibly setting the case up for a second trial. The next hearing on the matter is set for Sept. 29.
Clancy was on trial after admitting to strangling her three children—ages 5, 3, and 8 months—in January 2023. Her defense team argued that the slayings were the result of postpartum psychosis, and that she was not guilty by reason of insanity. …