🚨⚖️ THE LINDSAY CLANCY TRIAL ENDED — BUT THE JURY FIGHT IS JUST BEGINNING

The courtroom battle surrounding Lindsay Clancy has taken a dramatic new turn after her mistrial.

Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington is asking a judge to investigate the lone juror who refused to support an insanity-based acquittal.

That juror has been identified as Michael Desronvil.

The request centers on allegations that Desronvil may have used his cellphone during jury deliberations and questions about whether he was fully truthful during the jury-selection process. Phone use during deliberations is prohibited in Massachusetts.

But Desronvil’s attorney, Edward Paltzik, is fighting back.

Paltzik has sharply criticized Reddington’s motion, arguing that a juror should not face investigation simply because he reached a different conclusion from the rest of the panel. He has characterized the move as a serious threat to the protections surrounding jury deliberations.

The dispute stems from the extraordinary ending to Clancy’s trial.

After seven days of deliberations, the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict, and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Several jurors later said the panel stood at 11–1, with 11 favoring a finding that Clancy was not criminally responsible because of mental illness and Desronvil holding the opposite position.

Desronvil has since defended his decision.

In a statement released through his attorney, he said he “didn’t have any doubts” about his position and maintained that his decision was based on the evidence presented at trial.

Now, the court faces a different question:

Did the actions of the lone holdout juror affect the validity of the mistrial — and could the answer change what happens to Clancy’s case next?

Clancy’s defense has also asked the court to dismiss the case rather than proceed directly to another trial, arguing that the judge should have considered replacing the holdout juror with an alternate during deliberations.

Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will seek a retrial.

For now, the original trial is over.

But the battle over what happened inside that jury room is becoming a case of its own.

And the next courtroom hearing could determine where Lindsay Clancy’s case goes from here.