Two things: the female jurors need to shut the hell up. We get it — you wanted child killer Lindsay Clancy to get away with it—Second, what a nasty piece of work NBC Boston was by pretty much leading the online leftist activist community right to the man. His family was targeted; then his brother started yapping, another ‘what the hell are you doing’ moment; and finally, his disclosure, despite the judge sealing the names of the jury.
It’s not unusual for jurors to spill their guts after a trial, or for other profiles to be written about the rest of the body, but that’s only after the court releases their names. Alex Gutentag of Public delved into the sordid antics the progressive Left has displayed since the trial.
The lone juror who prevented a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict was Michael Desronvil, a Catholic MAGA supporter from a Haitian immigrant family. So the Left, which claims to be the vanguard for all black people, attacked a black man because he didn’t go along with the shenanigans of insufferable suburban white women after ten thousand bottles of wine. NBC Boston went to unusual lengths to attack Desronvil, who, as it seems, was the only person to look at the evidence and not view this case as one where children must be sacrificed for a larger discussion about mental health. It’s a lengthy and thorough post about this case devolving into a circus, how leftist logic leads to nothing but brain rot, and how if this is how leftists behave on juries, our system of justice might be in severe trouble (via Public):
The NBC Boston story is part of a larger public smear campaign that began before a mistrial was even declared. The jury foreperson initially alleged that the holdout was not faithfully applying the law during deliberations. Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s defense attorney, tried to have the juror removed and accused him of “bias” against people with mental illness.
The holdout, the foreperson said in a later interview, had acknowledged “reasonable doubt” but still would not agree to a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) verdict. He was “arrogant,” a female juror said, and refused to listen. He “mimicked” the strangulation of Clancy’s children, a young male juror agreed, saying his behavior was “disgusting.” An anonymous female juror said the holdout did not back up his views with “any logic.” And, said another juror, he “didn’t make any sense” and was bizarrely concerned with the volume of blood spatter from Clancy’s suicide attempt. The holdout “robbed” Clancy and the other jurors, Reddington said. “I hope that guy can sleep well at night,” he added.
This weeks-long effort to shame and dox the holdout will taint future jury pools if Clancy is retried. For the jury system to function, individual jurors must be able to follow their individual conscience; normalizing intimidation to achieve a unanimous verdict undermines trial by jury altogether. Jurors in any controversial case will now have reasonable fears that if they do not acquiesce to the group, they will face consequences.
Part of what makes these actions so remarkable is that the holdout juror is black, and in other circumstances, progressives would have referred to the media-supported targeting of the holdout as “racist.” After all, jurors repeatedly insulted the only person of color on the jury as stupid and immoral, Clancy fans attacked him online, and a retaliatory press published his personal information.