The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial opened up about his Catholic faith in an interview in which he revealed what it was like to serve on that jury and the treatment he endured after refusing to go along with a verdict of “not guilty.” Michael Desronvil, the holdout juror, sat down for an interview on Fugitive TV.
The channel’s host, Ray Marcel, had previously shared the details of a phone conversation he had with Desronvil shortly after a mistrial was declared on Sept. 4 because Desronvil declined to join the rest of the jury in returning a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity for the mother of three charged with murdering her children. Clancy, who admitted killing her children, has been described by her lawyers as suffering from postpartum psychosis.
After describing how he was born in Haiti and moved to Massachusetts as a child without knowing English, Desronvil discussed how his Catholic faith shaped his upbringing and philosophy.
He credited his father with instilling “a love of reading” in him, adding, “It’s not necessarily him that had me reading those books.” Desronvil cited The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer as the first book that he read before moving on to “a lot of Catholic books, spiritual books, business books and relationship books.” “My faith really started increasing when I started reading the Bible,” he added.
After that, Desronvil said he “started going to church” and “making new friends.” “From doing a lot of reading and research, I came back to the Catholic faith,” he added, suggesting that he was raised Catholic but had strayed from the faith. Desronvil said he lived in North Carolina for several years before moving back to Massachusetts to care for his widowed mother. “I did my whole OCIA