Lindsay Clancy’s murder case may have ended in a mistrial, but the legal fight is not over yet. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington , is now asking a Massachusetts judge to investigate the holdout juror whose decision played a key role in the jury failing to reach a verdict.
About the case
This includes calls, texts and data from August 27 through September 4. He was Juror #10 at trial. As per TMZ, he has publicly named himself as 48-year-old Michael Peguy Desronvil. This was despite the other 11 jurors believing there was enough reasonable doubt for a not guilty by reason of insanity plea. Lindsay, who is 36, did not deny strangling her children.
The motion, dated Friday and sent to Judge William Sullivan, seeks the juror’s phone records, jury documents and other information. As per TMZ , Reddington wants a thorough investigation into the juror. These are the dates when the jury was deciding if Lindsay was guilty of murdering her three kids. Motion asks the judge to review the juror’s phone metadata from this period. The motion also asks the court to preserve all the jury notes and the judge’s responses. It asks the court to preserve the original questionnaires completed by the jurors and alternate jurors. The questions would focus on whether the juror was truthful during jury selection and whether he used a phone or received any outside information during deliberations. Her lawyers argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and used an insanity defense. The jurors had to decide whether she should be held criminally responsible.
The lawyer also wants the judge to question the juror on the record, with both the defense and prosecution present, according to the New York Times. “The inquiry will not touch the substance of deliberations,” the motion said. He says the prosecution convinced him that Lindsay was guilty.
