Attorneys for the lone holdout juror at Lindsay Clancy’s triple murder trial revealed their plans to file a bar complaint against the 𝘬iᩚller mom’s lawyer.
Lawyers for Michael Desronvil — the sole juror who wanted to send the mom to prison for 𝘬iᩚlling her three kids, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — said they plan to ask the bar to probe Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, for allegedly singling out their client.
Reddington, 75, asked a judge to investigate Desronvil for potential misconduct, including determining whether he lied on his juror questionnaire and whether he used his cell phone during deliberations.
Tyler Cox, one of Desronvil’s lawyers, told Fox News host Sean Hannity, “We are going to file a bar complaint.”
“[Reddington] said that all he’s done is file a motion. Well, even if you take that as true, which it obviously isn’t, the motion that he filed was unprecedented,” Cox said. “You don’t attack jurors this way, you don’t single them out.”
During a hearing Tuesday for Clancy, an exasperated Reddington denied wrongdoing in filing the motion about Desronvil or making comments about him to the media.
“I’m tired of hearing about me persecuting people,” the defense attorney said in court.
On Monday, prosecutors asked Judge William Sullivan to implement a gag order after Reddington’s public comments about the jury and Desronvil. The motion is set to be argued at Clancy’s next hearing on Nov. 2.
Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4, after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked in three impasse notes.
Several of the panelists have since revealed that 11 of the 12 were prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity and claimed Desronvil had doubts about the 𝘬iᩚller mom’s guilt, but refused to find her not criminally responsible.
However, Desronvil, 48, and his lawyers insist he was convinced of Clancy’s guilt and “didn’t have any doubts.”
The 36-year-old mother is accused of coldly planning and carrying out the strangling of her three kids with exercise bands at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on Jan. 24, 2023.
But Reddington claimed Clancy was experiencing severe postpartum psychosis at the time and heard a voice telling her to commit the slayings and take her own life. The mom cut her wrists and neck, downed some pills and threw herself from a second-story window, paralyzing herself in the fall.
Prosecutors have not revealed how they plan to go forward with the case and whether they will retry Clancy on the same first-degree murder charges she faced the first time around, opt for lesser charges at a second trial, try to strike a plea bargain with the defense or drop the case altogether.
Reddington didn’t immediately return requests for comment.
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