Jury remains deadlocked in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after rare judge instruction

On the fifth day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, the mixed-gender jury again reported a deadlock, leading Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan to deliver a Tuey-Rodriguez charge—an uncommon instruction that asks jurors to continue working toward a unanimous verdict while honoring their genuine convictions. The jurors spent additional hours debating before being sent home without a decision, and they are scheduled to reconvene the next day.

The trial examines Clancy's criminal liability for the deaths of her three children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and infant Callan—amid claims she suffered postpartum psychosis and should be deemed not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argue the killings were premeditated and that Clancy concealed her thoughts from medical professionals. In a separate development, Dawn Light faced an arraignment on a charge of witness intimidation after a video from her phone showed jurors leaving the courthouse; she entered a not-guilty plea and was released on personal recognizance with orders to stay away from the courthouse and avoid contact with jurors or witnesses.