MISTRIAL INCOMING? Woman ARRESTED Outside Lindsay Clancy Trial for Jury Intimidation

A 56-year-old woman was arrested outside the Lindsay Clancy trial for allegedly attempting to photograph the jury, the Herald has learned.

It all hit as the jury was sent home early after declaring they were deadlocked.

The State Police told the Herald Dawn Light of Sutton was arrested Tuesday at about 3:40 p.m. outside the Plymouth District Courthouse.

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JUST IN: 56-year-old woman Dawn Light has been arrested for JUROR or WITNESS INTIMIDATION at the Lindsay Clancy m*rder trial, after court was dismissed today

"It is possible either side could ASK FOR A MISTRIAL."

This is absolute madness.

M*RDER 1, NO EXCEPTIONS! pic.twitter.com/0Pf1bhetyU

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 2, 2026

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In Massachusetts, the dynamite charge is called a “Tuey-Rodriguez” instruction, named after a 1973 case.

The law permits judges to send deadlocked juries back to deliberate twice. More chances are allowed if jurors ask clarifying questions about the law.

Upon the second reporting of being “deadlocked,” judges will consult with the attorneys involved in the case, then will often read jurors the Tuey-Rodriguez charge, which says, in part:

“You should consider that it is desirable that the case be decided. You should consider that you have been selected in the same manner, and from the same source, as any future jury would be. There is no reason to suppose that the case will ever be submitted to six persons who are more intelligent, more impartial, or more competent to decide it than you are, or that more or clearer evidence will be produced on one side or the other. With all this in mind, it is your duty to decide this case if you can do so conscientiously.”

After this is read, if the jury returns deadlocked a third time, the judge then has the discretion to declare a mistrial.

If a mistrial is declared, the conditions for the defendant go back to what they were pretrial. In this case, that would mean Clancy would remain “in custody” at Tewksbury State Hospital under psychiatric care.

The Plymouth County district attorney, Timothy Cruz, would then get to decide whether to retry Clancy for first-degree murder — or for a lesser charge — or to not retry the case at all.

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This is ridiculous because the jury should be sequestered and this would not have happened. There should be a mistrial because the judge has allowed the jury to become tainted.

— The Banker Next Door (@BND_podcast) September 2, 2026

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Everyday this case gets crazier!

— 45TrumpsAll

(@funsizedspud) September 2, 2026

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Some of these jurors are incapable of caring out the task at hand, that being, rendering a guilty verdict. They are afraid they will be identified and crucified by the demonic left.

— Make CA Sane Again (@letsMA3) September 2, 2026

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