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Jury Deadlocked Again in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial; Woman Arrested for Juror Intimidation

Jury deadlocked for second time in Lindsay Clancy murder trial; Dawn Light arrested for allegedly filming jurors.

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Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor-and-delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for killing her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on 2023-01-24 by strangling them with exercise bands; she admits killing them and appeared in court in a wheelchair after jumping from a window. [1] The jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial was deadlocked again on 2026-09-01 after five days of deliberations, and on 2026-09-02 Judge William Sullivan gave the panel a Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, Massachusetts' last-resort charge telling a deadlocked jury to reach a verdict or face an automatic mistrial. [2] In the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the jury reported for a second time that it could not reach a verdict, and Judge William Sullivan instructed them to continue deliberating on the fifth day of deliberations. [3] Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague told jurors that Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband out for errands and checking how long they would take, and called the killings 'a choice,' arguing she formed intent despite her mental illness. [4] Massachusetts State Police arrested Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, on 2026-09-01 outside the Plymouth courthouse on a charge of aggravated intimidation of a witness, juror, or person furnishing information in a criminal proceeding; she pleaded not guilty and was released on personal recognizance. [5] Assistant District Attorney Nicole Piacentini told the court that police found videos of the jurors in the deleted file folder of Dawn Light's phone, and that Light's actions put the integrity of the judicial system at risk. [6] Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, Massachusetts, was charged with intimidation of a witness, juror, or person providing information in connection with criminal proceedings after being accused of recording jurors as they left the Plymouth courthouse; she pleaded not guilty and was released without bail but ordered to stay away from the courthouse, jurors, and witnesses. [7]
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  1. Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor-and-delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for killing her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on 2023-01-24 by strangling them with exercise bands; she admits killing them and appeared in court in a wheelchair after jumping from a window. · ZeroHedgeUnited States
  2. The jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial was deadlocked again on 2026-09-01 after five days of deliberations, and on 2026-09-02 Judge William Sullivan gave the panel a Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, Massachusetts' last-resort charge telling a deadlocked jury to reach a verdict or face an automatic mistrial. · ZeroHedgeUnited States
  3. In the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the jury reported for a second time that it could not reach a verdict, and Judge William Sullivan instructed them to continue deliberating on the fifth day of deliberations. · El Nuevo DíaPuerto Rico
  4. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague told jurors that Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband out for errands and checking how long they would take, and called the killings 'a choice,' arguing she formed intent despite her mental illness. · ZeroHedgeUnited States
  5. Massachusetts State Police arrested Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, on 2026-09-01 outside the Plymouth courthouse on a charge of aggravated intimidation of a witness, juror, or person furnishing information in a criminal proceeding; she pleaded not guilty and was released on personal recognizance. · ZeroHedgeUnited States
  6. Assistant District Attorney Nicole Piacentini told the court that police found videos of the jurors in the deleted file folder of Dawn Light's phone, and that Light's actions put the integrity of the judicial system at risk. · El Nuevo DíaPuerto Rico
  7. Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, Massachusetts, was charged with intimidation of a witness, juror, or person providing information in connection with criminal proceedings after being accused of recording jurors as they left the Plymouth courthouse; she pleaded not guilty and was released without bail but ordered to stay away from the courthouse, jurors, and witnesses. · El Nuevo DíaPuerto Rico
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