Clancy trial holdout juror hires attorney after mistrial, faces scrutiny

When a single juror prevented the conviction of Lindsay Clancy — a Massachusetts woman accused in the deaths of her three children — the machinery of justice stalled, and a private citizen named Michael Desronvil stepped, unwillingly, into the public eye. The law requires unanimity for conviction, and Desronvil alone withheld it; what followed was not the quiet return to ordinary life that civic duty once promised, but a cascade of scrutiny, revelation, and legal maneuvering. His decision to hire a Trump-linked attorney signals something older than this case: the way high-profile trials increa