Lindsay Clancy holdout juror Michael Desronvil claims fellow jurors used cell phones during deliberations: report

The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial is fighting back after the killer’s attorney filed a motion to request his cell phone records over allegations he used his device during deliberations.Fellow jurors had alleged that holdout juror Michael P.Desronvil was on his phone while they were deliberating whether to convict Clancy of killing her three children — Callan, 8 months; Dawson, 3; and Cora, 5 — prompting her defense attorney Kevin Reddington to request the records.

Desronvil, however, claimed that several other jurors used their cell phones throughout the seven days of deliberations and even posted to social media, his spokesperson Ray Marcel said in NewsNation’s Brian Entin. “He said everybody had their phone on them.It wasn’t like they took their phones away and locked them away,” Marcel recalled of a conversation with Desronvil. “There were juror member[s] — which I’m not going to say names — that were posting on social media, allegedly, you know, while deliberations [were] going on,” the spokesperson added. Marcel, who is the host of a true-crime YouTube channel, told Entin that he didn’t know if the panelists were allowed to use their cell phones during deliberations but “they never said ‘give me your phone or lock it up in this, you know, locker’ or anything like that,” based on his conversations with Desronvil.

“From what Michael told me was ‘Hey, people were sitting back there on their phones you know that’s how it was,’” Marcel added. On his YouTube show, “Fugitive TV,” Marcel previously said Desronvil Googled the term “psychosis” to “make sure he has it right” as well as “altruistic filicide” because “he never heard of that in his life.”Marcel also claimed to have read the paper instructions for the jury prior to deliberations and noted a “gray area” that “does not say that when you go home you can’t or cannot look up a word if you don’t know what that word mea...