Lindsay Clancy‘s lawyer has asked a judge to probe the phone data of the sole juror who voted against acquitting the killer mom in her case which ended this month.
Eleven of 12 jurors were ready to clear Clancy of criminal responsibility last Friday, but their deadlock forced the judge to declare a mistrial, leaving the case unresolved.
Neither side disputed that Clancy strangled five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan Clancy in the family’s Massachusetts home in 2023 before trying to end her own life.
However, her defense attorney Kevin Reddington said she was a loving mother in the grip of a rare condition called postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors argued that she knew what she was doing.
The sole holdout juror, Michael P. Desronvil, sided with prosecutors and said that he had no doubts about Clancy’s guilt, in opposition to the verdict reached by the other jurors.
Now, Reddington has asked the judge, William Sullivan, to examine Desronvil’s mobile phone metadata during the time the jury was deliberating over the case, according to a motion seen by the New York Times.
The motion also asks the judge to question Desronvil about the truthfulness of the information he provided during jury selection and the use of his phone or any outside information during deliberations.
Reddington has requested the questioning to be on the record, in the presence of attorneys from both sides.
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer has asked a judge to probe the phone data of the sole juror who voted against acquitting the killer mom in her case which ended this month
The sole holdout juror, Michael P. Desronvil (pictured), said last week that he had no doubts about Clancy’s guilt, in opposition to the verdict reached by the other jurors
‘The inquiry will not touch the substance of deliberations,’ the motion reads.
It is unclear whether the jury’s decision could be reversed.
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