The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s Massachusetts murder trial has spoken out publicly for the first time to defend himself amid an online frenzy — as his lawyer dubbed him “an American Hero and Champion of Justice” who loves the USA and President Trump.
Michael P. Desronvil, 48, clapped back at accusations from fellow jurors that he refused to budge on his belief Clancy was guilty of murdering her three kids despite expressing doubts.
“I didn’t have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present,” Desronvil on Thursday. “Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”
Desronvil — a father from a Haitian immigrant family and a devout Christian with a history of 𝘢bu𝘴e allegations — was the lone juror who refused to find Clancy not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, a decision which turned the six-week trial on its head and dragged him to the center of the explosive case.
The Bridgewater resident comes from a large family of Haitian immigrants who moved to the US and settled in Massachusetts in 1982, meaning he would have been about 4 years old when he arrived in America.
Family, friends and neighbors of Desronvil told The Post his family are an upstanding and educated group, and that he had recently worked in pest control.
Desronvil’s newly secured lawyer described him as “a devoted father and man of God” as he asked for prayers for his client’s safety.
“This American Hero and Champion of Justice loves the United States of America as the greatest country in the world; cherishes our sacred Constitution as the pinnacle of human liberty; and supports our amazing leader, President Donald J. Trump, as a fellow defender of common-sense, liberty, and sanity,” attorney Edward Paltzik said in a statement on X Thursday, without referring to Desronvil by name.
Paltzik, who has previously repped Trump, and neighbors also described Desronvil as a strong Catholic, sparking speculation that his faith may have driven him to avoid evidence in the case and refuse to release Clancy of criminal responsibility for the 2023 murder of her three young kids — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.
Clancy, 36, admitted to to take her own life in her Duxbury home, but insisted she was out of her mind in a severe bout of post-partum depression — which she said was dangerously exacerbated by the cocktail of drugs doctors gave her while she desperately sought help.
Prosecutors and their witnesses twice brought up the Catholic idea of “mortal sin” surrounding murder and sᩚuᩚiᩚcide during the trial, leading to speculation that religion may have been behind Desronvil’s verdict stance.
His brother, however, previously refuted that idea while telling The Post, “I don’t think religion had anything to do with it.”
Desronvil reportedly believes he’s been “targeted” by the media over the mistrial because he’s a staunch Republican on a jury panel he claimed was mostly leftist “activists,” according to YouTuber Ray Marcel, who to his channel “Fugitive TV” on Tuesday, recounting an hour-long, off-camera interview he said he had with the holdout juror.
“We started talking. [Desronvil] thinks he knows why he might be getting targeted. He’s a Republican. He is a black Republican. He has conservative views,” said Marcel — who is acting as a representative on behalf of Desronvil, according to his lawyer.
“He believes he might be getting targeted because of that, because the media and the reporters, as you would see, they kind of have left views,” the true-crime host said, alleging, “he was on a juror panel with people of the Democratic party.”
“And this is also why some people are shocked that it’s a black guy that stood his ground and not only that, the world is going to be shocked now that it’s a black guy who was a Republican,” Marcel added.
The YouTuber also claimed that eight jurors on the 12-person panel voted for a not-guilty verdict for Clancy on day one of deliberations — and that those jurors who voted to acquit her were “activists,” according to his interview with Desronvil.
“He felt like they were activists is what he told me,” Marcel said, in reference to the eight panelists.
Desronvil’s identity became the subject of public frenzy when his 11 co-jurors put the blame on him for the Sept. 3 mistrial — with his life getting splashed across headlines after the controversial true-crime blogger known as “Turtleboy” exposed his name, and NBC Boston reported on domestic violence allegations that have dogged him for years.
Those allegations stemmed from a 2021 arrest when he allegedly choked out his then-wife over their crying infant, with his 13-year-old nephew frantically calling police after Desronvil allegedly threw his wife into furniture.
Desronvil’s own mother even shouted “You’re evil” at her son as he was hauled to jail, police records showed.
Charges over that incident were dismissed — with NBC Boston reporting his now ex-wife wouldn’t testify for fear of losing child-custody — but in 2025 he was accused of battering the same nephew while shouting, “You ruined my [expletive] life,” and “You’ve had this coming your way for a long time.”
The alleged attack on his nephew resulted in a restraining order, which was active when he was sitting on the Clancy jury.
All of those allegations of how Desronvil ended up making it into a domestic violence trial, as the jury questionnaire would likely have asked about previous criminal allegations.
Desronvil’s finances were even dragged into the spotlight — he was under eviction proceedings after supposedly failing to pay about $12,000 in rent for months, NBC Boston reported.
His family also ended up on blast — siblings and cousins have both complained about being harassed by reporters and true-crime fanatics for any shreds of information they could shake out.
“Everyone thinks I’m Michael, I’m not Michael,” Desronvil’s brother said — adding that the family was completely blindsided by the attention, because nobody had talked to Desronvil since the alleged 2025 nephew attack.
The sideshow William Sullivan to indefinitely block the public release of the trial’s juror names Monday in an apparent attempt to keep Desronvil’s name under wraps
But Desronvil was a step ahead of the judge — his local mechanic said the juror skipped town with his new wife days ago.
“His wife — they just got married — came by yesterday and asked me to put new wheels on her car,” the owner said. “She said the media has been crazy and they’re gonna lay low for a while.”
The holdout juror’s new lawyer confirmed he’s left the area.
“He is presently safe and sound at an undisclosed secure location in a rural area of Northern New England,” Edward Paltzik said.
💔 STELLA PARTON BREAKS HER SILENCE — What She Said About Dolly’s Health Has Fans Looking Back
Dolly Parton’s Sister Breaks Silence What Really Happened - GMT - G1
Stella Parton was born May 4, 1949, the sixth of twelve children raised by Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee — a household defined by noise, limited money, and almost no privacy, the kind of environment that produced strong, determined personalities.
Stella was one of them.
By seven, she was appearing alongside her older sister Dolly on a Knoxville television program; by her teens, she was writing her own songs, though marriage and motherhood pulled music to the margins of her life for a stretch.
The dream never fully disappeared.
In 1967, she recorded a gospel album with her mother and sisters, and later worked clubs in Washington, D.C., before founding her own record label in 1975 and releasing “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” which climbed to number nine on the country charts.
Long before any of that commercial success, Stella had already shown a willingness to take positions others avoided.
At 26, amid backlash against Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for winning recognition in country music, Stella recorded “Ode to Olivia” in her defense — a stand that offered her no career benefit and real risk of criticism, but one she took anyway simply because she believed staying silent was the wrong choice.
That instinct defined the rest of her career: hits like “The Danger of a Stranger” and “Steady as the Rain” (written by Dolly) built a genuine, independent following, including in the U.K., while Stella also worked in New York theater and spoke openly, often controversially, about poverty, domestic violence, and the treatment of women in the music industry.
She was named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 2004.
Through all of it, she remained defined publicly, more often than not, as simply “Dolly’s little sister” — a label she spent five decades quietly proving didn’t tell the full story.
That same directness is why her comments in the fall of 2025 carried real weight.
Stella had never positioned herself as the family’s image manager or spokesperson; she was, by reputation, someone who believed difficult truths shouldn’t stay hidden indefinitely.
What she described wasn’t dramatic or accusatory — it was a portrait of a woman who had spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs over her own.
The context mattered.
Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025 at 82, after a long illness during which Dolly had devoted herself almost entirely to his care.
She later acknowledged that in the process, she’d neglected her own health significantly.
The loss reverberated through the whole extended family — the Partons had lost three brothers in the years surrounding this period, compounding grief that, for a family that had once crowded twelve children into a single small home, meant losing pieces of a shared childhood one after another.
Stella herself went seven years without releasing new music during this stretch, later describing the period simply as one shaped by sorrow, while still speaking about the importance of finding moments of laughter within it.
Looking back, one moment reads very differently in hindsight than it did at the time: in late September 2025, Dolly postponed her planned Las Vegas residency, citing health challenges — a rare cancellation for a performer whose six-decade career had included very few of them.
At the time, most fans treated it as a minor, temporary setback.
Stella’s later reflections suggested the signs had actually been building for some time, visible to family in ways the public smile made easy to miss.
That concern crystallized publicly not long after, when Dolly’s younger sister Frieda posted a simple request on Facebook asking fans to pray for Dolly.
What looked at first like an ordinary, well-meaning gesture spread rapidly, sparking widespread speculation about how serious Dolly’s condition actually was.
Dolly herself responded directly within days, appearing in a video from a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot, insisting with her familiar humor that she wasn’t finished yet — the now widely remembered “I ain’t dead yet” moment that briefly quieted public concern.
In the months that followed, the pattern repeated: reassuring updates about kidney stones, dehydration, and treatment, paired with continued work on new projects, right up until Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at 80.
Looking back across that full timeline — the postponed residency, the family’s public worry, Stella’s own account of a sister who consistently deprioritized her own wellbeing — it becomes easier to see what the people closest to Dolly understood well before the rest of the world did: that the warmth and resilience the public saw every time she appeared on camera came at a real, largely invisible cost.
