Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years for Miriam Haley, Lindsay Clancy Double Jeopardy Bid, Elizabeth Holmes Halfway House Date Set

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and Justice from Calaroga Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher. It's Friday, September 25th, 2026. Four days from now, a judge in Plymouth County is expected to say whether Lindsay Clancy gets tried a second time. Her lawyers have now filed a motion arguing she cannot be tried at all ever again because of the Fifth Amendment. They also want the holdout juror's phone. And his spokesperson is fired back, accusing other members of that jury of doing the exact thing they are accusing him of. In Manhattan, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison, more than six years after his first conviction, two trials, one reversal, and two hung juries. The woman whose assault he was convicted of told the court it is a life sentence for her.

0:58 And Elizabeth Holmes, who we covered last Friday, has been approved to leave federal prison for a halfway house outside Austin. Let's get into it. On January 24th, 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callen was eight months old. Three weeks ago, after seven days of deliberations, a jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of finding her not criminally responsible, and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. On Tuesday, he is expected to hear where this case goes next. And on Monday, her lawyers filed the most aggressive possible answer to that question. Martin Weinberg and Kevin Reddington moved to dismiss the case outright, arguing that trying Lindsay Clancy again would violate the double jeopardy protections of the Fifth Amendment. Now, I need to explain why that is a steep climb, because it is.

1:55 The default rule in this country is more than 200 years old. When a jury genuinely cannot agree and a judge declares a mistrial out of what the law calls manifest necessity, double jeopardy does not bar a retrial. There was no verdict, so there is nothing to be protected from. That is why Karen Reid was retried. It is why most hung juries end in a second trial. So a double jeopardy motion after a hung jury has to argue something more. The classic version is that prosecutors deliberately provoke the mistrial to get a do-over. Another is that the mistrial was declared when it was not actually necessary. The full reasoning in the defense brief has not been made public, and I am not going to guess at it. What I can tell you is that Weinberg is one of the most experienced federal appellate lawyers in New England, and he does not file motions like this as theater. And it fits with everything else they are doing, because the second motion is about the juror. Reddington has asked Sullivan to order Michael Desronville's cell phone carrier to produce call and text detail records for every day of deliberations, and to require Desronville to turn the phone itself over to a neutral examiner. He also wants the court to preserve the original questionnaires for all 12 jurors and six alternates.

3:12 Every jury note, recordings of certain sidebars, court officer logs, the sign-in sheets for jurors' phones, and video from the corridor outside the jury room. All of it reviewed by the judge privately, in camera, not released to the public. Then he wants Sullivan to question Desren Ville on the record, with lawyers from both sides present, about three things. The truthfulness of his questionnaire and his answers during jury selection. His sworn assurance to the court on September 3rd that he would follow the judge's instructions. And whether he used a phone or received outside information during deliberations. And here is the sentence in that motion that shows a careful lawyer at work. It says the inquiry will not touch the substance of deliberation. We have spent a month on this show explaining that line. Courts will not go behind a verdict to examine what jurors thought or why. That is the no impeachment rule. But outside influence is the recognized exception, and so is a juror who concealed something to get onto the panel. Reddington has drafted this motion to sit entirely on the permitted side of that line, not what he decided. Whether he was eligible and whether anything reached him from outside, that is the strongest version of this argument. And now the other side of it.

4:29 A spokesperson for Dez Ronville has told News Nation that several other jurors were using their phones to research the case during deliberations. Think about what that means if it is true. It would be the same violation committed by the people now demanding an investigation into him. It would also potentially give the Commonwealth its own problem, because outside research by jurors is exactly the kind of thing that can taint a proceeding regardless of which way those jurors voted. Nobody has proven any of this. Not against him, not against them. Right now, it is two sets of accusations pointed in opposite directions, and one judge who is going to have to decide whether to start pulling phone records from 12 private citizens who did their civic duty. Meanwhile, the jurors keep talking. Paula Devlin, who is 65, told the Daily Mail that Desrenville made no sense when pressed on why he voted the way he did, that he was quiet for most of the week, and that he spent his energy policing the tone of the discussion rather than explaining his position. She said when people talked over each other, which is how ordinary conversation works, he would lecture them about being respectful. She said the 11 felt defeat and anger when the mistrial came down. Another juror, Nick Dargie, who is 25, told ABC News that Desronville did not engage and scrolled on his phone. And I want to say something about all of this because it has gotten ugly and it is going to get uglier before Tuesday. Every one of these people was ordered to be there. Not one of them volunteered. They gave six

6:02 weeks of their lives to the worst thing any of them will ever have to think about. And they came out of that room angry at each other and now they are on television and in filings and in each other's phone records. That is what this system does to ordinary people when a case gets big enough. And the thing that broke them was not a scandal. It was that 12 people looked at the same evidence and could not agree, which is a thing juries are allowed to do. Cora Clancy was five and in kindergarten. Dawson Clancy was three. Callan Clancy was eight months old. Tuesday, someone has to say their names. Miriam Haley was a production assistant on Project Runway. In 2006, at his Manhattan apartment, Harvey Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her. That is not an allegation.

7:00 That is what two separate juries have now found. On Wednesday, in Manhattan criminal court, Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and he will register as a sex offender. He is 74. He came into that courtroom in a wheelchair, frail, his hands cuffed to the seat. And to understand why this took until 2026, you have to follow the procedural history, because it is a case study in how long this actually takes. He was convicted in New York in 2020, 23 years. Then in 2024, New York's highest court threw that conviction out, ruling that testimony about uncharged alleged acts had been improperly admitted. That decision was controversial and it was also, on the law, defensible. Evidence rules about prior bad acts exist for a reason and appellate courts are supposed to enforce them even when the defendant is despised.

7:57 So they tried him again in 2025. That jury convicted him on Haley's charge and acquitted him on a charge involving Kaya Sokola. It hung on the allegation of Jessica Mann. Prosecutors retried that count. That jury hung too. and they finally declined to go a fourth time. Six years. Two trials, one reversal, two hung juries, and one conviction that held. Miriam Haley stood up on Wednesday and gave a victim impact statement. She said he abused his position and power and described the devastating effect on her sense of security. And then she said this, it is a life sentence for me. Sit with the arithmetic in that. He got 15 years. He is 74 and in poor health. She has had this for 20 years already and will have it for the rest of her life. Weinstein spoke before sentencing.

8:52 He said he is not a perfect person, but a person who has made mistakes. He apologized to anyone he may have hurt by his actions. And then he denied the allegations again and said he is not a violent man. Judge Curtis Farber did not accept a word of it. He told Weinstein he took what he wanted by force and has never accepted responsibility. Jessica Mann sat in the gallery to watch. She left in tears. Outside, Haley told reporters this has been really tough, that she thought about not doing it many times, and that she thought about pulling out. She did not. More than 80 women have publicly accused Harvey Weinstein of misconduct. He has denied all of it. Two of those allegations have produced convictions that stuck, one in New York and one in California. And the California sentence was vacated on appeal, so he is awaiting resentencing there. That is what the record actually looks like.

9:49 Not the version where a movement swept through and everything was set right. 80 accusations, a decade, and two convictions, one of which had to be won twice. Miriam Haley's lawyer described it as a trial by fire, twice, and said her client prevailed both times. That is accurate, and it should not have required it. When we come back, Elizabeth Holmes gets a date. Segment three, August 23rd, 2027. We did a full episode on Elizabeth Holmes last Friday, pegged to the documentary coming out October 16th. This week, there is actual news. According to an update from the Justice Department's victim notification system, first reported by ABC News, Holmes has been approved for placement in a halfway house.

10:47 She is scheduled to move to the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle, Texas on August 23rd, 2027. It is a privately operated 460-bed community corrections facility about seven miles southeast of downtown Austin. And I can now give you the number I would not give you last week because reporting on her release date was all over the place. Here it is, verified. She was sentenced to 135 months. In March, Judge Edward Davila reduced that to 123 months under a retroactive change to the federal sentencing guidelines for offenders with no prior criminal history. With First Step Act credits, the Bureau of Prisons now lists her release date as February 22, 2030. So, prison until August of 2027, halfway house after that, and release in early 2030. She will live in Austin and be supervised by the United States Probation Office. Davila, in that March order, wrote something worth repeating.

11:48 He said the reduction does not diminish the enormity of her crimes and that the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses speak for themselves. Now, one correction to coverage you may have seen this week because several outlets have gotten it wrong. Elizabeth Holmes did not plead guilty. She went to trial and a jury convicted her on four counts, one conspiracy count and three counts of wire fraud, all of them involving investors. As we explained last week, that same jury acquitted her on every count involving patients. That distinction matters, and it keeps getting flattened. There is also a detail in this week's news that almost nobody has picked up on. The reason the public knows about the halfway house at all is the victim notification system, which exists to tell crime victims when something changes about a defendant's custody. In this case, the victims are the investors she was convicted of defrauding. She and Ramesh Balwani owe them $ 452 million in restitution, joint, and several. Those people got an email this week telling them she is leaving prison in about 11 months. And the documentary lands in the middle of all of it. You can see everything opens in theaters October 16th. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spent 34 days with Holmes and her husband Billy Evans before she surrendered and kept filming for three years. In the trailer, Evans is asked whether he ever suspected his wife was after his family's money. He answers that he was 100% and then asks what she was going to gain from him. Fielder points out that his family is wealthy.

13:20 Evans says there are a lot of different levels of wealth and the clip cuts. And then Fielder, face to face with her, says he still has this weird feeling that there are some things he is not seeing. She tells him she has nothing to hide. I said last week that we built the machine that turns a fraud conviction into a franchise and that she is the first person to figure out how to drive it from inside a prison camp. Nothing this week has changed my mind. What has changed is that we now have a date. That's the show for Friday, September 25th. If you listen on Apple, there is a button at the top that says listen uninterrupted. $ 5 a month, no ads, thousands of shows across Calaroga Media, and 30 days free if you want to try it first. Everyone who has already subscribed, thank you. You are the reason we are here every morning.

14:11 And on Spotify, drop a comment on the Clancy motion. Two sides are now accusing each other of the same violation, and a judge has to decide whether to start pulling phone records from 12 people who were ordered to show up. Where would you draw that line? On Monday, we are doing something different. 44 years ago, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. It is the reason every bottle in your medicine cabinet has a foil seal. This week, investigators in Idaho finally put a name to a man they believe was responsible. A man who has been dead since 1982. We are going to take the whole thing apart. And Tuesday is Plymouth County, when we should learn whether Lindsey Clancy faces a second trial. I'm Garrett Fisher. Do better. A few notes on sourcing. On the Massachusetts case, a mistrial is not a verdict, and Lindsey Clancy has not been convicted or acquitted of anything. The defense motions described here are filings, not rulings, and Judge Sullivan has not acted on them.

15:19 The full reasoning of the double jeopardy motion has not been made public, and we have not characterized it beyond what has been reported. Michael Desrenville has not been found by any court to have done anything improper, and no juror has been found to have used a phone or conducted outside research. The accusation against other jurors comes from a spokesperson and is unproven, as are the characterizations of his conduct offered by other jurors in press interviews. On the New York case, Harvey Weinstein was convicted at his 2025 retrial of first-degree criminal sexual act involving Miriam Haley and sentenced this week. He was acquitted of a charge involving Kaya Sokola, and two juries hung on the allegation of Jessica Mann, which prosecutors ultimately declined to retry. He has denied all allegations against him. His separate California conviction stands, but that sentence was vacated on appeal, and he awaits resentencing there. On Elizabeth Holmes, she was convicted at trial not by guilty plea, and she was acquitted of all counts involving patience. The halfway house placement was reported from a Justice Department victim notification. The Bureau of Prisons has declined to confirm placement details and says designations are not released until an inmate arrives. Dates and placements can change.

16:39 This episode discusses sexual assault and the deaths of children. If you have experienced sexual violence, the National Sexual Assault Hotline is available at 1-800-656-4673. Thank you.