The lone juror, who refused to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty of murder in the trial that captured the nation, shared a heartwarming photo of his newborn daughter amid an ever-growing fundraiser for him.
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Michael Desronvil, 48, was seen holding his newborn daughter in a photo shared by his attorney, Edward Paltzik, after the juror was subjected to alleged death threats and doxing for his role in Clancy's trial.
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Desronvil had refused to agree with the 11 other jurors on the case that Clancy, 36, was not guilty of murdering her children due to insanity, leading to a mistrial in the notorious case.
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Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, was facing the courtroom after she was accused of killing her three young children at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 2023.
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Her defense centered heavily on her mental state at the time of the killings.
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Clancy did not deny that she killed her three children, but argued she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time.
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Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months, were found strangled to death at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023.
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Yet, after a mistrial was declared when jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision, other members of the jury publicly described an extraordinary breakdown inside the deliberation room.
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They said 11 jurors favored acquitting Clancy, while the lone holdout refused to join them.
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Michael Desronvil, 48, was seen holding his newborn daughter in a photo shared on the GiveSendGo that raised over $360,900 for the holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy's trial
Desronvil had refused to agree with the 11 other jurors on the case that Clancy, 36, was not guilty of murdering her children due to insanity , leading to a mistrial in the notorious case
The father, seen in a photo shared by his lawyer Paltzik on X, had a fundraiser launched 'if they come for him, and they will' to cover 'security, lawyers and lost work'
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Several jurors subsequently accused him of refusing to meaningfully engage with their arguments, with some describing him as 'arrogant.'
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One juror called his behavior 'shocking.'
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Fellow juror Paula Devlin, 65, told the Daily Mail that the holdout juror made 'no sense' when pressed on his reasons for his vote and was 'quiet' for most of the week-long deliberations.
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He was more focused on policing the tenor of the group's discussions than offering explanations for his conviction that Clancy was guilty, she said.
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'The main thing he focused on is sometimes we would all want to talk at once, and that was very upsetting to him.
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'He would get upset and say, ''Listen to what she's saying, listen to what he's saying, be respectful'.''
'We were trying to say to him, that sometimes somebody says something and they get lost in their thought or they can't find the right word, and somebody else puts that word in there for them or finishes their thought, that's how normal conversation works.
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'But when that would happen, he would get upset and just take all this time lecturing us about not being respectful.'
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Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months, were found strangled to death at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023
Fellow juror Paula Devlin, 65, told the Daily Mail that the holdout juror made 'no sense' when pressed on his reasons for his vote and was 'quiet' for most of the week-long deliberations
Devlin also claimed the holdout was a married man and rarely fraternized with the group during the trial, instead preferring to speak to his wife or watch videos on his phone.
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Devlin said the 11 jurors who decided Clancy was not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the deaths of her kids felt 'defeat' and 'anger' when the mistrial was declared.
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She told the Daily Mail: 'I don't want to bash anybody, even that person.
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They did whatever they did for their reasons, and we will never know, and we will never understand.
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'That's what hurts so much.'
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Three other women who served as jurors also spoke out earlier this week.
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'We weren't trying to figure out if she murdered the children, she did and she's admitting to that.
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We're trying to figure out: Did she know right from wrong at that time?' jury foreperson Roni Carlson recounted to NBC Boston.
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'And with everybody saying she loved her children so much and everything proved she loved her children, from her journals to her mother-in-law, everything proved that she loved her children,' Carlson continued.
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'So she had to have snapped.'
Clancy did not deny that she killed her three children, but argued she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time
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He had reasonable doubt.
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He admitted he had reasonable doubt,' Carlson said.
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'I started filling out the forms, I was so excited.
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There were three forms I had to fill out, and then he said, 'But I'm still not going to say she's not guilty.''
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The father from a Haitian immigrant family had a fundraiser launched 'if they come for him, and they will' to cover 'security, lawyers and lost work,' the GiveSendGo page said.
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After Desronvil was identified as the holdout juror he explained in a statement that 'based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was enough proof that [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing.'
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He doubled-down, emphasizing that he 'didn't have any doubts' about Clancy's guilt.
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The fundraiser garnered a flurry of donations in wake of the jurors identity surfacing publicly and reached over $361,970 as of Sunday evening.
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Desronvil received 'death threats, doxxing and harassment' following the trial's collapse and reportedly had to leave his home, opting to stay at an 'undisclosed secure location' in New England, according to his attorney.
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In a statement on X, Paltzik said: 'Michael will be making a personal statement in the near future, in his own words.
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But in the meantime, this is only me talking.
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I want to thank everyone who has sent me emails, texts, and voice messages over the last few days intended to support Michael.
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Desronvil received 'death threats, doxxing and harassment' following the trial's collapse and reportedly had to leave his home, opting to stay at an 'undisclosed secure location' in New England, according to his attorney
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