Lindsay Clancy Juror Reveals Why She Regrets Revealing Holdout Juror Was Black in TV Interview

A Lindsay Clancy juror says she has one regret from the interviews she gave after the mistrial — telling a national audience that the lone holdout juror was Black.

Paula Devlin addressed the controversy in an interview with journalist Brianna Whitney for Crime Junkies posted on YouTube on Wednesday, October 7.

Whitney asked about the backlash after Devlin said on CBS Mornings that the holdout juror, Michael P. Desronvil, 48, was Black.

Devlin said Desronvil had not been publicly identified at the time, but she believed his name would eventually come out.

Asked whether she regretted revealing Desronvil was Black, Devlin said she had little time to consider the consequences when Gayle King raised the subject.

“So when Gayle King asked that question, it was kind of like, I didn’t have very much time to think about it. And it just seemed like it was going to come out,” Devlin said.

She added, “I don’t really know. I don’t think there was enough time to really do all the pros and cons, whether I should have said it, whether I shouldn’t have said it.”

Looking back, however, Devlin said the disclosure stands out as her one regret.

“In hindsight, it’s probably out of every interview I’ve done. It’s the only thing that I regret saying.”

Whitney then asked Devlin about the online criticism that followed. Devlin said she has avoided reading most of it, though friends have seen some.

She maintained that her disagreement with Desronvil was about how he approached the evidence.

“I’m not saying hateful things about Mike [Desronvil],” she said. “I’m just trying to say that we kept asking him to show us evidence to support where he stood. And he never would do that.”

She also said she does not understand why a fundraiser has raised money for Desronvil since the mistrial.

“I absolutely do not understand why there’s any money. I just don’t understand why there’s money being raised to support him in any way, shape or form,” she said.

“You know, he voiced doubt in front of 11 people. And then he wouldn’t act on it. He wouldn’t follow the law.”

As Globe previously reported, Desronvil has pushed back on fellow jurors’ accounts.

“I didn’t have any doubts,” he said in a statement to NewsNation on September 17. “As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present.”

He added, “Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she [Lindsay] knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”

Devlin said the jury ultimately split 11-1 before the judge declared a mistrial. The 11 voted that Lindsay was not criminally responsible.

Lindsay, 36, is charged in the deaths of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. She shared her three kids with her then-husband, Patrick Clancy.

She pleaded not guilty. Her defense argued that she was not criminally responsible because of postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors said she knew right from wrong and planned the killings.

The trial ended in a mistrial on September 4. Lindsay is due back in court November 2.