The lawyer for the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder case is continuing to sing his praises after the highly-debated trial ended with an 11-1 deadlocked jury.
“Michael Péguy Desronvil,” attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik wrote via Instagram on Saturday, September 19, alongside a photo of his client holding his baby daughter as he smiled at her lovingly. The picture deliberately hid the child’s face.
“American Hero & Champion of Justice,” the attorney continued of his client in the caption. “Courage, Faith, Humanity.”
Days earlier, on Thursday, September 17, Paltzik announced he had been hired to represent Desronville, 48, after he notoriously refused to find Clancy, 36, not guilty of killing her three young children by reason of insanity despite reportedly having reasonable doubt.
His lone vote resulted in the judge declaring a mistrial in the highly-debated case on September 4.
“I can now confirm that I am representing the courageous and heroic lone holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy Trial. He is an American hero and Champion of Justice,” the lawyer wrote via X on Thursday. “Please pray for him and help us protect him. 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.”
The attorney continued at the time, “Rest assured that the evil people who have so viciously attacked his American Hero and Champion of Justice will be held accountable to the maximum extent of the law and beyond. In the meantime, though, he has persevered and remains utterly unbroken thanks to his devout Catholic Faith. As a devoted father and man of God, he will not be defeated or shattered by the wicked who wish harm upon him.”
Clancy was accused of killing her three children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — in January 2023 before jumping out of a second story window in an apparent suicide attempt, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her defense team argued that while she has never denied strangling her children to death, she should not be held criminally responsible for the killings due to her well-documented mental health struggles, including postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder, that were exacerbated by mental health experts who allegedly overmedicated her.
The prosecution argued that while her postpartum mental health issues were real, she knew right from wrong before, during and after the killings, arguing it was a deliberate, cruel and premeditated act.
Days before Paltzik revealed he had been hired by Desronvil and championed his client, a CBS News report revealed the juror had been accused of domestic violence just five years before the weeks-long trial began.
According to the Brockton Police Department report, Desronvil’s 13-year-old nephew called 911 in September 2021 after he and his wife got into a violent argument, per the report. According to the authorities, Desronvil allegedly grabbed his wife by the throat and pushed her into a dresser.
The juror was then charged with one count of domestic violence assault and battery, and he pleaded not guilty. Court records reportedly state that the criminal charge was later dismissed.
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