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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and
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Justice from Calaroga Shark Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher.
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It's Thursday, September 3rd, 2026. Judge William Sullivan has now
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played his last card. Yesterday afternoon, for the second time
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in two days, the jury in the Lindsay Clancy case
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told him they could not reach a unanimous verdict. and
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this time he read them the instruction he had been
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holding back. It dates to 1851. It is outlawed in
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a number of states as coercive. Lawyers call it the
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dynamite charge. And once a judge has given it in Massachusetts,
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there is almost nothing left but a mistrial. They went
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back in. They worked into the evening. They went home
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without a decision. That is roughly 28 hours across five days.
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And before any of that could happen yesterday morning, Sullivan
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had to swear in all 12 jurors and six alternates,
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one at a time, and question each of them privately.
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Because on Tuesday afternoon, as those jurors walked to their cars,
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a 56-year-old woman was arrested in the courthouse parking lot
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for filming them. We will get to Tiger Woods, who
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turned a second DUI into a second reckless driving plea yesterday,
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and to Georgia, where a jury needed 30 minutes. But
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we start in Plymouth, because that case is now inside
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the last few hours it has. On the evening of
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January 24th, 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children with
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exercise bands in the basement of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
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Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old.
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Clancy then cut herself and went out a second story window,
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severing her spine. She has pleaded not guilty by reason
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of lack of criminal responsibility. She has never denied killing them.
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Twelve people, nine women, and three men have been trying
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since last Thursday to decide whether the Commonwealth proved she
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could be held responsible. Here is where that stands, and
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it is close to the end. Tuesday morning, they sent
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a note saying they were at a standstill. Sullivan did
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not read it aloud. He took it to sidebar, brought
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the jury in, acknowledged the 80-plus witnesses and hundreds of exhibits,
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and sent them back without giving the formal deadlock instruction.
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That was a deliberate hold. Yesterday, around two in the afternoon,
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they told him again. Sullivan read their message out loud
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this time. He said it was more of a statement
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than a question, and it said that after much deliberation,
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they were still unable to come to a unanimous decision.
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And then he gave them the Tue Rodriguez charge. Let
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me tell you what that actually is, because this is
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the most important thing that has happened in that courtroom
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in a week, and most coverage will call it a technicality.
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It dates to 1851. Massachusetts rewrote it in 1973 in
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a case called Rodriguez, specifically to make it less coercive
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because a number of states have banned this kind of
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instruction outright over exactly that concern. Nationally, it is called
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an Allen charge. Everyone in a courthouse calls it the
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dynamite charge because it is meant to blow open a deadlock.
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And here is what Sullivan told those 12 people. He
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told them there is no reason to suppose the case
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will ever be submitted to 12 persons more intelligent, more impartial,
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or more competent to decide it, or that clearer evidence
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will ever be produced. He told them that with that
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in mind, it was their duty to decide the case
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if they could do it conscientiously. And then, to his credit,
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he immediately gave them the other half. He reminded them
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the burden of proof is on the Commonwealth to establish
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every element beyond a reasonable doubt. and that if they
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are left in doubt of any element, the defendant is
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entitled to the benefit of that doubt and must be acquitted.
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That balance matters. Because the danger of this instruction is
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obvious the second you put yourself in the room. Imagine
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you are the holdout. You have sat through 21 days
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of testimony and 84 witnesses. You have a sincere position.
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And a judge in a robe tells you that nobody
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who comes after you will be smarter or fairer than
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you are, and that it is your duty to decide.
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That is enormous pressure applied to a person whose entire
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job is to not be pressured. That is why judges
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here are held tightly to the model language, and why
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they are specifically forbidden from mentioning the cost or inconvenience
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of a retrial. The line between encouraging a jury and
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leaning on one is thin, and Sullivan appears to have
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walked it carefully. As he read it, reporters in the
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room watched Lindsay Clancy look over at the jury repeatedly
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with her eyebrows furrowed, And one juror, a woman who
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has been visibly emotional throughout this trial, and who wept
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when Patrick Clancy's 911 call was played, winced and shook
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her head slightly when she was told to go back in.
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They went back in, they worked, they went home. So
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what happens now? Under Massachusetts practice, a judge may give
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this instruction no more than twice. Sullivan has used it once.
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If they report a deadlock again and he gives it
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a second time and it still fails, he declares a mistrial.
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And a mistrial is not an acquittal. It is not
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a finding of anything at all. The case stops and
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the Plymouth County District Attorney decides whether to do it again.
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Reddington has already said he would absolutely try this case
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a second time. In the meantime, Lindsay Clancy stays exactly
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where she has been for more than three years, committed
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to a state hospital. Everybody in Massachusetts is thinking about
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the same case right now, so let's just say it.
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In 2024, in Norfolk County, the jury in the first
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murder trial of Karen Reed deadlocked after about 20 hours.
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Judge Beverly Canone read them the Tui Rodriguez charge. It
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did not work. She declared a mistrial. Prosecutors retried the case,
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and in 2025, Reed was acquitted of murder and manslaughter.
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The same pattern ran in the first trial of Emanuel
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Lopez in 2023. Deadlock, dynamite charge, mistrial, retrial. So there
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is a very recent Massachusetts template for exactly where this
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jury is sitting this morning, and it did not end
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anywhere close to where people expected. And I want to
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say something about the shape of this deadlock, because it
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tells you something. These 12 have five options. First-degree murder,
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second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty, and not criminally responsible. Sullivan
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added manslaughter at the very end over the Commonwealth's objection,
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precisely so a split jury would have somewhere to land.
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They deadlocked anyway with the compromise sitting right there on
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the sheet. That suggests the division is not about degree.
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It suggests some of those people believe the Commonwealth proved
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Lindsay Clancy could stop herself, and some of them believe
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it did not, and there is no middle ground between
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those two positions. You cannot split the difference on whether
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a mine was working. Now, The other thing that happened,
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and it is genuinely unusual, on Tuesday afternoon, right after
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those jurors were dismissed for the day, Massachusetts State Police
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arrested a 56-year-old woman named Dawn Light of Sutton in
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the courthouse parking lot. Prosecutors say she parked in a
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restricted area and tried to photograph the jurors from inside
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her vehicle as they left. When troopers approached her, she
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told them she was waiting for Lindsay Clancy. She consented
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to a search of her phone, and prosecutors say troopers
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found video of jurors walking out of court. She was
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charged with intimidation of a witness, juror, or person furnishing
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information in a criminal proceeding, and arraigned Wednesday morning in
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Plymouth District Court. A not guilty plea was entered on
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her behalf. Prosecutors asked for $ 50, 000 bail. Assistant District Attorney
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Nicole Piacentini told the court that the sanctity of the
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judicial system is at risk because of her actions. Judge
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Shelby Smith released Light on personal recognizance instead, with orders
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to stay away from Plymouth Superior Court, have no contact
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with jurors or witnesses, and not distribute a single photograph
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or video she took. Her attorney, Jennifer White, called the
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whole thing a misunderstanding and said her client is a
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retired nurse. And Light herself, surrounded by reporters walking to
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her car, was asked why she filmed outside the courthouse.
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Her answer was that she wanted to see Lindsay. and
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that she did see her, getting picked up by the van. Look,
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I'm going to be honest with you about this one
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because there are two ways to read it and I
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do not think either one is comfortable. The generous reading
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is that a retired nurse got swept up in a
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case that has become a movement, drove to Plymouth to
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catch a glimpse of a woman she feels something for,
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and had her phone out like everyone has their phone out.
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She has pleaded not guilty. She is entitled to that presumption,
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and she has not been convicted of anything. The other
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reading is what the Commonwealth is arguing, and it is
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why this is a felony-grade allegation rather than a citation.
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Twelve people are locked in a room deciding whether a
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woman spends her life in prison. They are not sequestered.
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They drive home every night. And a stranger sat in
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the parking lot pointing a camera at their faces. It
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does not matter what she meant. Those jurors now know
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that somebody was filming them. And that is why Sullivan
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had to spend Wednesday morning calling all 12 jurors and
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all six alternates to the bench one by one, swearing
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each of them in and asking them a question with
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the lawyers present and out of public earshot. Think about
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what he was doing there. He was checking individually whether
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any of those people had been shaken badly enough that
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they could no longer decide this case fairly. If even
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one had said yes, this trial could have ended right there.
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That's not a mistake. That's a choice. Nobody made anybody
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drive to that parking lot with a phone. And there's
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a playbook for this, and it is the oldest one
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in American courts. You do not touch the jury. Not
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a photograph, not a word, not a look in a
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parking lot. That rule is not bureaucratic fussiness. It is
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the only thing standing between a verdict and a mob.
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And speaking of which, there was also a man outside
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that courthouse yesterday carrying a two-sided sign. One side named Cora, Dawson,
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and Callen. The other side called for repealing the 19th Amendment,
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which is the one that gave American women the right
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to vote. I am not going to say his name
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because that is the entire transaction he is offering and
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I decline it. But I want you to sit with
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the fact that the one person out there saying those
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three children's names was using them to argue that women
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should not be allowed near a ballot box. That is
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what this case has become outside that building. 400 women
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in pink on one side, that on the other. And
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in the middle, 12 exhausted people who are not allowed
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to read any of it being asked one more time
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to agree. Cora Clancy was five and in kindergarten. Dawson
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Clancy was three. Callan Clancy was eight months old. They
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are not a slogan for anybody. Someone has to say
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their names. On March 27th of this year, at about
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two in the afternoon, Tiger Woods was driving at a
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high rate of speed on a two-lane beachside road on
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Jupiter Island, Florida. His SUV clipped the trailer of a
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yard maintenance truck and rolled onto its side. He climbed
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out without an injury. Nobody else was hurt. There was
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roughly $ 5, 000 in damage to the other vehicle. An officer
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at the scene wrote that Woods exemplified signs of impairment.
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Officers described him as lethargic and ran roadside tests. A
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breathalyzer showed no alcohol in his system. He was taken
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to the Martin County Jail where he refused a urine test.
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He was charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence with
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property damage and with refusing to submit to a lawful test.
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He posted bond and went home that night. He told
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deputies he had been looking down at his phone and
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changing the radio station. Yesterday morning, he resolved all of it. Woods,
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who is 50, walked into the Martin County Courthouse in
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Stewart with his attorney and his girlfriend, said almost nothing
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during the hearing and accepted a plea agreement. The DUI
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with property damage was reduced to reckless driving charged as
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a second offense. There was a careless driving citation. The
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refusal charge was resolved as well. The result? A $ 1, 000
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fine on the reckless driving count, $ 500 on the refusal,
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a five-year driver's license suspension, and no jail. Judge Darren
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Steele made one thing very clear to him. He told
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Woods that if he drove for any reason at all,
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he would go immediately back to jail. Now. Here is
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why this is on our show, and it is not
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because he is famous. In May of 2017, Tiger Woods
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was found by police in Jupiter, Florida, asleep at the
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wheel of a Mercedes parked awkwardly on the roadside at
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3 in the morning. There was no alcohol in his
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system then either. Toxicology later found the active ingredient in marijuana,
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two painkillers, a sleep drug, and an anti-anxiety medication. He
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was charged with DUI, and he pleaded guilty to reckless driving.
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Same charge, same reduction, nine years apart. And that is
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on top of a 2021 rollover in California where a
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sheriff's department said he was driving around 80 miles an hour,
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nearly double the limit, and no charges were filed at all.
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And a 2009 crash into a fire hydrant and a
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tree outside his house, which produced a careless driving ticket.
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Four significant driving incidents across 17 years. Not one of
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them ever produced a conviction on the charge that was
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originally filed. And I want to be fair about one
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of those. In 2009 and in 2021, nobody alleged impairment.
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The 2021 crash in California was investigated and the sheriff's
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department said he was going roughly 80 in a 45,
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but they did not charge him with anything and did
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not claim he was under the influence. So that is
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a speed case, not this. And there is one more
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number in this that deserves attention. The reckless driving count
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yesterday was charged as a second offense, not a first.