The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s high-profile murder trial said he had been harassed since the trial ended in September, and doubled down on his stance that he did not have reasonable doubt during deliberations.
\n\nThe juror, Michael P. Desronvil, was the sole holdout who wanted to convict Clancy in the strangulation deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old — in January 2023, other jurors have said since the judge declared a mistrial in the case last month.
\n\n“It was like night and day,” Desronvil said of his life before and after becoming the holdout juror.
\n\nHe spoke with Kayleigh McEnany on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday — his first media appearance since serving on the jury.
\n\nOther jurors have described a man they claimed was unwilling to negotiate and hostile in the deliberation room. They said that Desronvil was insistent on convicting Clancy of the murders, but that he was not following the standard of reasonable doubt and had been blocking a unanimous decision.
\n\nThrough his attorney, Edward Andrew Paltzik, Desronvil has previously denied such claims, saying, “I didn’t have any doubts.”
\n\n“As I tried to explain different possible theories…
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