Lindsay Clancy jurors broke cardinal rule and used phones to RESEARCH killer mom during deliberations, holdout claims

Jurors for killer mom Lindsay Clancy's trial allegedly broke court rules by using their phones to research the case during deliberations, according to the holdout juror. 

A spokesperson for sole dissenting juror Michael P. Desronvil has accused several other members of the jury of violating court orders by using their cellphones, according to NewsNation reporter Brian Entin. 

Jurors are tasked with coming to a verdict on a person's guilt or innocence based solely on what they see and hear in the courtroom.

Some information is considered inadmissible, and researching the trial may taint a juror's view of the case, so it is strictly prohibited. 

Desronvil's spokesperson, Ray Marcel, told Entin that 'everybody had their phones on them... there were jurors who were posting on social media, allegedly, while deliberations were going on'. 

'I don't know if they were allowed their phones, but they weren't taken away,' Marcel added. 

It comes after Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, filed a motion asking the judge to probe Desronvil's own phone metadata, after he was the only juror to vote against acquitting his client earlier 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. 

Jurors for killer mom Lindsay Clancy's trial were allegedly using their phones to research the case during deliberations - something which is strictly banned in court 

A spokesperson for the holdout juror, Michael P. Desronvil (pictured), 48, has accused several members of the jury of breaking court rules by using their phones to research the case 

Neither side disputed that Clancy strangled her children - five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan Clancy - in the family's Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023 before trying to end her own life. 

However, 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, 48, 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 statements 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. 

'The inquiry will not touch the substance of deliberations,' the motion reads. 

It is unclear whether the jury's decision could be reversed. 

Clancy did not deny that she killed her three children, but argued she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, did not deny that she killed her three children, but argued she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time.

While 11 of the jurors agreed with this characterization of the killings, Desronvil did not buy the story.

Since a mistrial was declared, several jurors have publicly accused him of refusing to meaningfully engage with their arguments, with some describing him as 'arrogant'.

Fellow juror Paula Devlin, 65, told the Daily Mail that the holdout juror made 'no sense' when pressed on his reasons for his vote and was 'quiet' for most of the week-long deliberations.

He was more focused on policing the tenor of the group's discussions than offering explanations for his conviction that Clancy was guilty, she said.

'The main thing he focused on is sometimes we would all want to talk at once, and that was very upsetting to him.

'He would get upset and say, ''Listen to what she's saying, listen to what he's saying, be respectful'.''

'We were trying to say to him, that sometimes somebody says something and they get lost in their thought or they can't find the right word, and somebody else puts that word in there for them or finishes their thought, that's how normal conversation works.

'But when that would happen, he would get upset and just take all this time lecturing us about not being respectful.'

Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months, were found strangled to death at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023 

Juror Paula Devlin, 65, told the Daily Mail that the holdout made 'no sense' when pressed on his reasons for his vote and was 'quiet' for most of the week-long deliberations

Devlin also claimed the holdout rarely fraternized with the group during the trial, instead preferring to speak to his wife or watch videos on his phone.

She said the 11 jurors who decided Clancy was not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the deaths of her kids felt 'defeat' and 'anger' when the mistrial was declared.

Meanwhile, the father of the three slain children, Patrick Clancy, revealed on Sunday that he suffered a panic attack and ended up needing medical treatment while giving grueling testimony at his ex-wife's trial.

The grieving father sat down with 60 Minutes to share his heartbreak over the deaths of his three children Cora, five, Dawson, three and Callan, eight months old, as well as the toll that their mother's trial took on him.