The holdout juror who caused a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has spoken publicly for the first time, disputing claims from fellow jurors that he ever expressed doubt about her guilt.
Michael Péguy Desronvil, 48, refused to vote for acquittal in the Lindsay Clancy case earlier this month. His decision led to a mistrial.
Now he has decided to finally break his silence, after several fellow jurors have given frustrated accounts on the trial. In a statement released through his attorney, Edward Paltzik, Desronvil pushed back against these accounts from his fellow jurors.
“I didn’t have any doubts,” Desronvil said.
“As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented.
Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”
A direct contradiction of what other jurors described
Desronvil’s account stands in sharp contrast to what several other jurors have said publicly since the trial ended.
According to their statements, 11 of the 12 jurors were ready to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, believing she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children and followed by trying to take her own life by jumping from the second story window of their home.
They’ve described Desronvil as appearing to acknowledge reasonable doubt during deliberations, only to still refuse to join them in voting to acquit.
Desronvil says he was consistently certain of her guilt and felt shut down whenever he tried to walk the group through his reasoning.
Desronvil’s own history with domestic violence
Since the case ended, Desronvil has faced both public praise and harsh criticism for his role in the outcome. His attorney, who decribed his client as “a devoted father and man of God” said he’s currently staying in an undisclosed rural area in New England and will not be doing further interviews about what happened in the jury room.
NBC Boston reported domestic violence allegations that have followed Desronvil for years, including a 2021 arrest for allegedly choking his then-wife, and a 2025 incident involving his nephew that resulted in an active restraining order, one that was still in place while he sat on the Clancy jury.
Charges from the 2021 case were later dropped after his ex-wife declined to testify, reportedly out of concern it could affect custody arrangements.
The scrutiny hasn’t stopped at his past. Desronvil was also reportedly facing eviction over roughly $12,000 in unpaid rent, and his extended family says they’ve been harassed by reporters and online true-crime followers hunting for information.
“Everyone thinks I’m Michael, I’m not Michael,” his brother said, adding that the family had been completely blindsided by the attention, since they’d had no contact with Desronvil since the alleged 2025 incident with his nephew.
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