Newz(AP) — Jury deliberations resumed for a fifth day Wednesday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, after the judge questioned jurors one by one about the arrest of a woman accused of filming them as they left the courthouse the previous day, Clancy's lawyer said.A former labor and delivery nurse, Clancy doesn’t deny strangling her three young children at the family's Massachusetts home in 2023, but she says postpartum psychosis led to her actions. Prosecutors argue that she knew what she was doing. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.Clancy’s livestreamed trial has generated intense interest, with reporters and spectators packing the courtroom.
The case has also sparked deep public divisions over her culpability and the issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.The jurors told Judge William Sullivan on Tuesday morning that they were unable to reach a unanimous decision, but he instructed them to keep trying — a common instruction in criminal trials when juries say they're having trouble reaching a verdict.___EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. She was getting picked up by the van,” Light said.Light’s attorney, Jennifer White, called it a “misunderstanding” and said that Light, a retired nurse, was only trying to take a photo of Clancy and “not interact with the jurors.”She was charged with intimidation of a witness, jurors or person furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings.
A not-guilty plea was entered on her behalf and she was released without having to post bail, but was ordered to stay away from the court, the jurors and any witnesses.Police searched the woman's phone for video of the juryAssistant District Attorney Nicole Piacentini said Light was parked in a restricted area behind the courthouse and is accused of filming the jurors as they left court. Court officers confirmed the people shown in the videos were jurors in Clancy’s trial, prosecutors said PLYMOUTH — A 56-year-old woman was ordered to stay away from the courthouse here Wednesday morning during her arraignment on charges connected with filming jurors serving in the Lindsay Clancy trial as they left Tuesday.Dawn Light, of Sutton, is charged with a single count of intimidation of a witness, juror, police or court official.
A plea of not guilty was entered on her behalf. State Police say Sutton resident Dawn Light, 56, filmed jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial as they left the courthouse Tuesday. The post Lindsay Clancy trial: Mass.
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