Holdout juror says Lindsay Clancy ‘knew exactly what she was doing’

The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy's triple murder trial said he "didn't have any doubts" about the Massachusetts mother's guilt, disputing accounts from other members of the jury, according to a statement released by the juror through his attorney on Sept. 18.

Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in the closely watched case on Sept. 4 after jurors repeatedly reported being unable to unanimously agree on whether Clancy, 36, should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children in January 2023. Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, did not deny that she strangled her children to death in the basement of her Duxbury, Massachusetts, home, but argued she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings.

In the wake of the mistrial, other members of the jury have said publicly that one man refused to agree to a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict despite having doubts. The holdout juror, Michael Péguy Desronvil, contradicted those accounts in a statement shared on social media by attorney Edward Paltzik, who said he is representing Desronvil.

"As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off…

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