Lindsay Clancy’s attorney requests investigation into holdout juror, asks judge to dismiss criminal case

Updated on: September 21, 2026 / 7:54 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Lawyers for Lindsay Clancy have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three children. Her lawyers have also asked the judge to dismiss the criminal case, claiming any successive trial would violate her double jeopardy rights.

In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyers asked the court to question the juror about his alleged use of a cellphone during deliberations, his truthfulness on a questionnaire that prospective jurors filled out before the trial began and his truthfulness when jurors were questioned by the judge a day before the trial ended.

The judge declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after the jury insisted it couldn't reach a unanimous verdict, despite days of trying. Eleven of 12 jurors were ready to clear Clancy of criminal responsibility, with the majority feeling that she was in the grip of a rare condition called postpartum psychosis when she strangled her kids — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. But one juror, Michael Desronvil, sided with the prosecutors, who had argued that Clancy…

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