马萨诸塞州女子林赛·克兰西(Lindsay Clancy)的辩护律师被指控杀害了她的三个年幼的孩子,她要求监督她的审判的法官质疑一名律师在陪审团选择过程中的“真实性”,以及他在审议期间的一些行为。
根据上周提交的一项动议,辩护律师凯文·雷丁顿还要求法院保留审判中的机密陪审团问卷,并审查陪审员的电话记录,该动议由法院周一公布。
在陪审员未能达成一致裁决后,克兰西为期五周的审判于9月4日以无效审判告终。
几名在审判后公开发言的陪审员说,七天的审议产生了11比1的分裂,以精神错乱为由支持无罪。他们声称,最终的陪审员不会改变立场,支持定罪,尽管他们描述为合理怀疑的表达。
在受到其他陪审员的批评后,这位拒不让步的陪审员上周公开站出来为自己的行为辩护。
“我没有任何疑问,”迈克尔·佩盖伊·德龙维尔在9月18日由他的律师向ABC新闻分享的一份声明中说。“当我在讨论中试图解释不同的可能理论时,我一直被打断,就好像我对提出的证据有疑问一样。”
他继续说道,“基于所有的物证、关键证人以及控方提出的证据,我认为这足以证明她(克兰西)清楚地知道自己在做什么和计划做什么。”
2023年1月24日,克兰西对她5岁的女儿科拉、3岁的儿子道森和年幼的儿子卡兰在波士顿郊区杜克斯伯里的家中被勒死的三项谋杀指控拒不认罪。
根据州检察官的说法,这位前护士在她孩子死亡的当晚试图自杀,导致她瘫痪并坐在轮椅上。
在Clancy的审判中,大部分证词都集中在她是否患有产后精神病——根据美国妇产科学院的说法,这被认为是一种精神疾病——当她勒死自己的孩子并试图结束自己的生命时,以及她是否应该为这些杀人行为承担刑事责任。
检察官认为克兰西对孩子们的死亡负有刑事责任,并且能够理解她行为的严重性。
雷丁顿的新动议是在9月29日就此案举行法庭会议之前提出的,届时检察官可能会宣布他们是否计划重审此案,雷丁顿曾表示,他将部分基于拒绝接受的陪审员的行为提出撤销此案的动议。
普利茅斯县地方检察官蒂莫西·克鲁兹还没有公开表示他是否计划重审克兰西。美国广播公司新闻已经联系到克鲁兹的办公室,对雷丁顿的新动议发表评论。
在动议中,雷丁顿特别要求法庭保留12名陪审员和6名候补陪审员的原始问卷、每份陪审团笔记、一些边栏的录音、法庭官员日志以及陪审员移动设备的签到表。他还要求陪审团室走廊播放庭审录像。
这些记录将由法院“秘密”审查,这意味着公众无法查阅。
雷丁顿还要求从德斯龙维尔的手机记录,包括他的通话和短信记录,以及数据会话日志。他还要求Desronvil将他的手机交给法庭,以便进行检查。
一旦所有这些记录都被移交,雷丁顿要求法庭就他的“调查问卷和预先可怕的答案的真实性”,他在9月3日向法庭保证他正在按照指示行事,以及他在审议期间使用手机的情况向德斯龙维尔提问。动议称,这些问题不会触及审议的实质。
美国广播公司新闻已经联系了德斯朗维尔的律师,请其发表评论。
陪审员尼克·达吉先前告诉美国广播公司新闻的亚伦·卡特斯基,德斯龙维尔在审议期间有时拒绝与陪审员接触,而是滚动他的手机。
达吉当时说,“有些时候他不会参与进来,就像当人们和他说话时,他会滚动手机,诸如此类的事情,他只是没有集中注意力。”
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks judge to question holdout juror, review his phone records
Thedefense lawyerforLindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three young children, has asked the judge overseeing hermurder trialto question aholdout jurorabout his "truthfulness" during the jury selection process, as well as some of his actions during deliberations.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington also requested that the court preserve the confidential jury questionnaires from the trial, as well as review the juror's phone records, according to a motion filed last week, released by the court Monday.
Clancy's five-week trialendedin a mistrial on Sept. 4, after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Several jurors who havespoken publiclysince the trial say that seven days of deliberations yielded an 11-1 split in favor of not guilty by reason of insanity. They claimed the final juror would not change his position favoring conviction, despite what they described as expressions of reasonable doubt.
Following criticism from other jurors, the holdout juror came forward publicly last week to defend his actions.
"I didn't have any doubts," Michael Péguy Desronvil said in a statement to ABC News shared by his attorney on Sept. 18. "As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented."
He continued, "Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was enough proof that she (Clancy) knew exactly what she was doing and planned."
Clancy pleaded not guilty to three murder charges for thedeathsof her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and infant son Callan, who were strangled at the family's home in Duxbury, a Boston suburb, on Jan. 24, 2023.
The former nurse attempted suicide on the night of her children's deaths, leaving her paralyzed and in a wheelchair, according to state prosecutors.
Much of the testimony in Clancy's trialcenteredon whether or not she was suffering frompostpartum psychosis-- considered a psychiatric emergency, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- when she strangled her children and attempted to take her own life, and whether she should be held criminally liable for the killings.
Prosecutors argued that Clancy was criminally responsible for the children's deaths and was capable of understanding the severity of her actions.
Reddington's new motion comes ahead of a Sept. 29 court conference in the case -- when prosecutors could announce whether they plan to retry the case -- and a motion Reddington has said he will file to throw out the case based in part on the holdout juror's actions.
Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not said publicly whether he plans to retry Clancy. ABC News has reached out to Cruz's office for comment on the new motion from Reddington.
In the motion, Reddington specifically asked the court to preserve the original questionnaires for the 12 jurors and six alternates, every jury note, the recordings of some sidebars, court-officer logs, and sign-in sheets for the jurors' mobile devices. He also requested video from the jury-room corridor from the deliberations.
The records would be reviewed by the court "in camera,"which means they would not be accessible to the public.
Reddington also requested records from Desronvil's mobile phone, including his call and text records, as well as data-session logs. He also requested that Desronvil turn over his phone to the court so it can be examined.
Once all those records are turned over, Reddington requested that the court question Desronvil about his "the truthfulness of the questionnaire and voir dire answers," his assurance to the court on Sept. 3 that he was following the instructions, and his use of his phone during the deliberations. The questions would not touch on the substanceof the deliberation, the motion said.
ABC News has reached out to Desronvil's attorney for comment.
Juror Nick Dargiepreviously told ABC News' Aaron Katersky that Desronvil at times declined to engage with jurors during the deliberations and instead scrolled on his phone.
"There was times he wouldn't engage, like he'd be scrolling on his phone while people are talking to him, things like that, where he's just not paying attention," Dargie said at the time.





