Overview
- After roughly 30 hours of deliberations spread over five days, Judge William Sullivan read a Tuey‑Rodriguez “dynamite” instruction on Wednesday and the jury entered a sixth day still unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
- Defense lawyers moved on Thursday to remove a juror they say refuses to follow the court’s reasonable‑doubt instruction, but the judge declined and individually questioned jurors before sending them back to deliberate.
- A woman, Dawn Light, was arrested outside the courthouse and charged with intimidating jurors after prosecutors said video on her phone showed jurors leaving the building; she pleaded not guilty and was released with orders to stay away from jurors and witnesses.
- If jurors return a third deadlock note the judge is likely to declare a mistrial, after which prosecutors must decide whether to retry Clancy on three counts of first‑degree murder, seek a plea, or decline further action.
- Clancy has admitted killing her three children and the trial has centered on whether she lacked criminal responsibility because of postpartum psychosis or acted with awareness of wrongfulness, an outcome that will determine either a life sentence or psychiatric commitment.