In a Massachusetts courtroom this September, the question of where illness ends and culpability begins could not be resolved — not by forty hours of deliberation, not by eleven jurors convinced of a mother's psychosis, and not by one man equally convinced of her intent. The trial of Lindsay Clancy, who admitted to killing her three young children before leaping from a window, ended in mistrial when Michael Desronvil refused to join the others in a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. His public defense of that position this week opens a rare and uncomfortable window into the machinery
Holdout juror defends conviction stance in Lindsay Clancy mistrial case
Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children—Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months)—at their Massachusetts home before jumping from a second-floor window.