The attorney representing the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial blasted Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, for what he called unconstitutional actions and revealed that he plans to file a bar complaint against Reddington.
Reddington has continuously attacked the holdout juror, revealed to be Michael Péguy Desronvil, after he was outed for refusing to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. The attorney has accused Desronvil of being an “obstructionist juror” who refused to follow the law. Desronvil, however, has stood by his decision.
Edward Paltzik, Desronvil’s attorney, said Reddington has set a “nightmarish precedent” by accusing his client of breaking the law, based largely on conversations that other jurors who disagreed with Desronvil claim took place. Desronvil notably rejects the characterization and has said he has no doubts about Clancy’s guilt, based on the evidence, and simply refused to cave to pressure from other jurors.
“If the new normal is that jurors are going to face brutal reprisals for disagreeing with a defense attorney, you can kiss the Sixth Amendment goodbye,” Paltzik wrote in a post on X.
“That is the most outrageous thing I have ever heard in almost 20 years of practicing law. It is categorically false,” he said about the claim that Desronvil broke the law.
“You can’t investigate a juror because the juror followed the law and the evidence and came to a different conclusion than the one that you wanted, Kevin Reddington,” Paltzik added.
Notably, Reddington has filed a motion asking Judge William Sullivan to allow him to review Desronvil’s phone records, courthouse surveillance footage, juror questionnaire, probation records, and any entries in the state’s domestic violence registry.
Paltzik, who has nearly 20 years of experience as a defense lawyer, said he would never publicly criticize a juror or file a post-trial motion seeking to investigate one. “Kevin Reddington was doing his job but the problem is it’s off the rails now,” Paltzik said.
“Kevin Reddington wanted this for his legacy,” he added. “He wanted so desperately to win this trial.”
Paltzik is not the only one in the legal world to sharply criticize Reddington. Legal analyst and law professor Jonathan Turley has argued that the defense attorney’s efforts to investigate Desronvil go well beyond ordinary post-trial scrutiny. Turley called Reddington’s request for the juror’s phone records, surveillance footage, and criminal history “highly unusual,” and argued that his public criticism of Desronvil, followed by the effort to investigate him, could send a “chilling” message to future jurors in high-profile cases.
Sources familiar with the situation first told TMZ on September 24 that Desronvil and his legal team planned to file a complaint against Reddington, arguing the attorney should be “suspended, disciplined, or even disbarred” for targeting the juror in the days following the September 4 mistrial. Paltzik confirmed the planned complaint in comments on Monday.
Clancy has admitted killing her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — in January 2023 by strangling them with exercise bands after she sent her husband, Patrick, out to run two errands. She pleaded not guilty and claimed that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible.
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