Dawn Light, 56, is speaking out through her attorney after pleading not guilty to aggravated intimidation of a juror at Lindsay Clancy’s trial.
Light, a retired nurse from Massachusetts, was arrested Tuesday afternoon after allegedly filming jurors as they left the courthouse. Prosecutor Nicole Piacentini told the court that Light had pulled her blue Toyota into a restricted area and captured video and photos from inside the vehicle. When officers examined Light’s phone, Piacentini alleged, they discovered footage of jurors in her deleted folder.
Light’s attorney Jennifer White pushed back hard against the prosecution’s narrative. “My client was seeking a picture of Ms. Clancy and had no intention of any interactions with the jurors,” White said. White characterized the entire episode as a “complete misunderstanding.”
The judge rejected the prosecution’s request for $50,000 bail but imposed strict conditions on Light. She must stay away from the courthouse, witnesses and jurors, with permission to return only for her own hearings. If convicted, Light faces up to 20 years in prison.
Light told CT Insider that she has attended other high-profile trials, including those of Alex Murdaugh and Karen Read. When approached by officers at the scene, Piacentini claimed, “she was adamant” that she had not been filming jurors but was “waiting to see if Lindsay Clancy would come out of the building.”
Light’s presence at the Clancy trial came amid a case that has gripped national attention. Clancy, 36, does not dispute that she fatally strangled her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — in the basement of their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. Her defense team argued she acted during an episode of postpartum psychosis worsened by prescription medications, seeking a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors maintained the killings were carefully planned. After jurors deadlocked for a third time following roughly 40 hours of deliberation, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Friday.
Years before she became a fixture at true-crime trials, Light endured devastating personal losses that briefly made her a news subject in her own right. Her husband Daniel died in 2013 from complications of ALS. Then in January 2017, her son Zachary died at age 22 from a seizure. That April, while mourning at Millbury’s Central Cemetery in Millbury, Mass., Light sank into the ground above Zachary’s casket when the soil collapsed.
“Beyond unfathomable, beyond, beyond unfathomable,” Light said at the time. “I had to dig to get myself out of a hole.”
The self-described “crime junkie” has not spoken publicly about the current allegations, and did not return a request for comment from The Post. Her next court date has not been announced.
Clancy’s next hearing is set for Sept. 29.