Holdout juror defends conviction stance in Lindsay Clancy mistrial case

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