Shadowing Practice: This Is A Big Problem - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Well hey there idiots, welcome back to Observe.
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In today's video I'm going to be utilizing my licensing and certifications as a scan-specific
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behavioral analyst to be able to break down the non-verbal communication
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of a certain Don Light who was charged with intimidating jurors regarding the Clancy case.
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More on that in just a second, let's go ahead and roll this intro.
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The Clancy trial now has been going on for over six
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weeks with the current deliberations between the jurors being problematic to say the least.
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There have been multiple times now where they have not been able to agree on a verdict
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and so there is now the looming threat of a hung jury and possibly even a mistrial.
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complications beyond that of finding people for a new jury set
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that don't already know everything about this case
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or feel like they know everything about this case and already have formed an opinion.
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It's a mess to be sure.
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In today's video we're going to be breaking down the body language of somebody who has overstepped the bounds
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so to speak of where the observers people
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that are just looking at the case from a distance viewers
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hobbyists what have you have now stepped into the realm of legalities
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and difficulties around that
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so we're going be looking at her nonverbal communication to decipher is this something
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that is a regrettable decision for her or is this something
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that she stands by and is it highlighting a bigger ordeal
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throughout this i will be utilizing my system here
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which is a logitech editing hub coupled with a huyan artist's tablet i use
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that for slow motion replays live annotations what have you like
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that so hopefully it'll make it a little bit more consumable to you along with
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that i'll be relying on my certifications and licensing in the SCANS system and the FACS systems.
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For those of you that do not know what those are, SCANS is the concept of six-channel analysis system.
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That's what it stands for.
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It's a behavioral analysis approach and methodology that holds to the fact that human communication flows through six channels,
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both nonverbal and verbal, and it's only when you take all of those into consideration that you could have the utmost accuracy.
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FACS is the facial action coding system which was pioneered by Dr. Paul Ekman.
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He went through and mapped all 43 of the muscles across the human face
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and related them to the emotions that they are tied to.
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And this goes through degrees of movement and which ones mean which and whatnot.
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There's a lot of specificity in that.
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So I'll be utilizing those systems predominantly while going through this.
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Within those systems, a portion of it is a baseline building
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which is where you gather a person's behavior before anything weighty is being directed towards them.
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It's so you can see what what their behavior patterns are,
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while they're more relaxed and less stressed so that you can compare those patterns later on to spikes from that baseline, both positive and negative.
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A positive spike is a sudden burst of activity and a negative spike is a sudden freezing of activity.
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Utilizing this entire system will help add more accuracy to the read itself, to the analysis itself.
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With this specific video, the baseline building options are limited to say the least.
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So I'll be utilizing the universalities of body language, which there are few, and then I will be utilizing the universality of facial expressions, which there are more of.
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And we'll be combining those, hopefully also, with some of the idiosyncrasies that she does present here to add as accurate of a nonverbal representation.
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What her psychology is actually doing in the background as opposed to what she might be wanting to portray to everybody around.
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And then we'll wrap up at the very, very end.
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I think that that honestly is, that's more than enough talking from me.
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Let's go ahead and start into the analysis portion of things.
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Good morning.
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Good morning, Madam Clerk.
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Are you ready on the Dawn Light arraignment matter?
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Yes, Madam Clerk, thank you.
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Thank you.
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On the Commonwealth versus Dawn Light, for Middle Docket 2659 CR 1187, please step up to the microphone.
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One complaint charging you, state police operations in Plymouth, September 1st of 2026.
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You are charged with aggravated intimidation of a juror,
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witness, police, a court official, arraigned for the record.
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Okay, ma'am, not guilty.
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Please, it'll be answered on your behalf.
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And you should be advised that if you're charged with another offense while this case is pending, your bail could be revoked and you could be held in jail without bail for up to 90 days.
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So you have a right to be represented by an attorney.
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My understanding is that you don't qualify for court-appointed counsel, so you'll ultimately have to be an attorney.
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Commonwealth, does any request to be on the bail warning?
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Thank you.
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Good morning, Aaron.
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Nicole Piacentini on behalf of the Commonwealth.
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The Commonwealth is requesting $50,000 cash bail, as well as a number of conditions, including stay away from the courthouse,
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court grounds, stay away from all potential jurors, as well as any witnesses related to the Lindsay Clancy case,
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as well as refrain from disseminating any videos, photos that the defendant may have on an iCloud related to this incident.
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I'm going to go ahead and pause here.
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Obviously, this is just going to continually kind of stream on forward.
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So throughout this, this is the closest area region portion
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that we can kind of gain a baseline understanding of how light here behaves.
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This is circumstantial.
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We don't get to really see her not being pressured by something.
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So this is still, she's already under some pressure.
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She's standing up in front of the court and whatnot.
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So we're working with some muddy waters to begin with.
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However, what we're able to see is kind of how she responds to various stimuli.
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In this case, it's obviously going to be verbal stimuli.
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They're talking to her and she's going to react to that.
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She's not going to say a lot here.
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In fact, I don't think she says anything throughout the entirety of this hearing.
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It's not too long of a hearing.
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We're going to watch the entirety of it and talk about the body language through it.
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Something that I've noticed is that she seems to be more communicative with her eyes.
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There will be eyebrow flashes and squints and blinks and acknowledgements through her eyes.
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However, there's another portion here, which bear with me as I'm going through this
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because I'm still learning this system and there's some quirks that I need to work out with this,
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but I'm gonna try to scroll back down through here and show you kind of where she has a response,
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a fairly negative response to one of the accusations being directed towards her.
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So if we look down here at the screen here, she's about to hear it and you could see it come across her face there.
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And so you see her eyebrows drawing together.
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This is a foreign activation.
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When you see the eyebrows being drawn together and kind of lowered there, that's activation in through here, brow lowers.
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And those are common throughout a number of different emotional states.
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So the key is to look at the rest of the face as well to gain that context.
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The brow lowering itself can be seen in anger.
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It can be seen in confusion.
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It can be seen in frustration, outrage.
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There's a slew of different emotional states that can go into that.
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And so what's important to note is the lower half of it.
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One, she has a prolonged eye blink.
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That prolonged eye blink, anything that lasts longer than an average blink, which is less than a quarter of a second, would be considered an eye blocking gesture.
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What that eye blocking gesture, again, means relies heavily on the context as to what's going on.
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So with the system that I use, there's two different methods that we're kind of working with within the scan system itself.
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One is called the 327 method.
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That's where it has to be three pins across two different channels three two within seven seconds of a stimulus.
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That could be verbal at any form of external or intrinsic stimulus within seven seconds of that.
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And if you see that cluster three pins across two channels within seven seconds, that's enough of a red flag to break the threshold.
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Before that, it just kind of counts as like, okay, there were some interesting behavioral quirks, but it's not enough to be able to be like, hey, we need to focus back in here and talk to this person.
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They're possibly manipulating what's being said here or presented here on some level.
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I think what she's communicating with her nonverbal communication here, considering the rest of the face, is she wants to display that she finds that area outrageous.
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Along with that, we're seeing that she puts on her glasses.
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She obviously needs them to see, and then she looks and she takes them off pretty quickly here.
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And so with that movement, I think that kind of can indicate to us that she's been encouraged to not have her glasses on.
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And the reason that that's important to make note of is
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because then sometimes you might be able to rely on the fact that we know she needs glasses, that she's had to take them off, she's not wearing contacts, that might affect some of her eye behaviors,
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which she will have some eye behaviors in this.
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And so we'll have to keep in mind, there's the possibility that some of what we're seeing could be explained away by her not having her glasses on.
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We'll have to look at the contexts of what's going on with that.
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Back around to the other method that I was talking about that I'm kind of functioning through here.
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It's also the ABCs, which is the account, the baseline and the context.
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Those three are extremely important to utilize in an analysis like this for accuracy.
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So within this account, she's obviously there to answer for this charge that's being presented with her intimidating a juror.
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And then the baseline, we've kind of been able to see she's not going to speak a lot.
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We kind of saw how her face rests and lies and how she responds to questions.
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And then the context itself is what's going on the environment, external influences, people, thoughts, things like that.
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That's the context.
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So if we're, if we see something and it can't be explained away by either the account, the baseline or the context.
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Coupling that with the 327, you've got a major red flag.
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There is the distinct heavy, heavy possibility.
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You can't ever be 100%, but 90 plus percent possibility that credibility should be questioned there, whether or not she's actually being authentic or telling the truth.
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Let's continue on forward.
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Cash bail, as well as a number of conditions, including stay away from the courthouse, court grounds, stay away from all potential jurors,
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as well as any witnesses related to the lindsey clancy case
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um as well as refrain from disseminating any um videos photos
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that um the defendant may have on an icloud um related
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to this incident just one moment uh attorney white did you
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have a chance to speak with um uh miss late yes
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regarding the conditions okay all right um sorry one more time
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um of course just with the conditions again of course thank you um to stay away from the courthouse
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and the court grounds to stay away from all potential jurors and witnesses involved in the Lindsay Clancy case,
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as well as to refrain from disseminating or producing any photos
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that may be on her iCloud account in relation to this incident.
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I'm going to go ahead and pause here and make note of a couple of things that have stayed consistent here.
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Again, she tends to interact more heavily with the upper half of her face that that's the more mobile portion of things.
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When there's something that's brought up unexpected, you could see her raise her eyebrows, widen her eyes, like that area of her face is where she's communicating most.
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And so it might also be one of the areas that could be most revealing.
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However, something that you have to be careful with in
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that is that just
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because somebody communicates most with a certain region of their face does not mean that they're not aware of that.
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She could, in fact, be aware that she does communicate most through her eyes
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and so she's more likely to be able to control what's going on through there.
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So her eyes might not, in fact, be the windows to her soul in this specific case.
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Something else that she is doing regularly, though, I do find interesting and I kind of can see some of the psychological back and forth that's happening here.
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You see her eyes doing regular movements.
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She's thinking a lot.
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Whenever you see somebody's eyes moving around a lot and some frequent blinks and things like that, that usually indicates a level of increased psychological processing.
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So she's, her brain's running pretty fast at this point, but what she's trying to portray with the rest of her nonverbal communication is this confident, relaxed state.
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And I think she's trying to show that she doesn't have anything that she's worried about here.
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And the reason that I'm leaning towards
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that being her mindset of what she's trying to portray here is
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because of a specific cluster of body language
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that she's trying to portray here that happens
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when people are trying to show that they're not feeling overtly threatened by something
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or they're feeling confident in an area and perhaps at least quizzical, sometimes bored, something along those lines, and it'll come out through this.
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And it's this look of where you expose your neck and kind of tilt your head, and that is usually belaying of the mindset of somebody being more confident,
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feeling like they're less at risk at the time.
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When you see somebody becoming defensive, their body language tends to close up, tighten up, and do some self-preservation motions in there.
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So your abdominal area is full of very important things.
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So sometimes you'll see hugs or braces and whatnot around on that area.
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But then also in your neck here, it's a very vital, rich area as well.
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You've got all sorts of nerves and your spinal cord and veins, and it's very important, right?
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And so if a person's feeling defensive, it's their body's natural response to protect that area.
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So you'll see turtling.
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If you then kind of take that pattern and you flip it, you can see the other side of things where they're feeling confident and so they'll expose certain areas of them.
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This is not necessarily a universal.
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It is something that I have seen repeatedly as a pattern, as well as other nonverbal analysts have seen this pattern come up regularly, but there has not been enough scientific,
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we need to get down to some control groups, and do a test group, and then do some extraneous testing outside of that.
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That hasn't been able to be fully done as of yet.
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It's merely pattern detection at this point.
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So we're seeing that in there.
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It is pushing me towards believing that she's trying to convey confidence almost not full cockiness, but I'm not at risk here, and I want to show that I'm relaxed and I'm not at risk,
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so neck's coming out there, and that head tilt is coming in there, which is interesting, because like I said, her eyes are showing that her mind's racing, her body is showing that she's trying to,
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you know, not portray herself as such, and in this case, I would be more likely to follow what the eyes are saying.
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I don't think that she's managing all of it well, which is I think her eyes are revealing the truth of things, a little bit of stress, a little bit of panic, a lot of psychological processing,
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and her body is something that she's trying to portray as the front.
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I hope that makes sense.
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Let's continue on forward.
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Yes.
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As well as the $50,000 cash bail.
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Okay, I'll hear you on your request.
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Thank you, Your Honor.
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Your Honor, the Commonwealth is requesting a mail as it relates to this incident.
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On September 1st, yesterday of 2026,
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state police who were involved in the surveillance as well as the security during the Lindsay Clancy case.
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Something that I want to point out, it's not implicative of anything right now, but non-verbally speaking, what Light's doing is a very common unlistening cluster.
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It's the tilting of the head, oftentimes with the gaze not being directed in a specific area, but more so in a generalized space,
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so to speak, and it allows them to audio process a little bit more.
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We're seeing that very clearly here down on the screen.
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You can see she's got her head lightly tilted here.
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This area here is more exposed.
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And so she's probably listening through this ear here.
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And that, again, that will come up regularly.
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Some people try to relate that to some form of deceit
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or they're trying to plan out a lie or something like that.
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That's not the case.
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It is very commonly seen in people who are trying to process audio information to break gaze
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and tilt head in a way that allows them to take in sound even more subconsciously.
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Called by court officers for an individual who may have been filming potential jurors in the parking lot.
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Officers responded to the employee parking lot where there was a restricted area,
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and they found a blue Toyota parked in the back of the parking lot, backed in, facing the restricted area that was blocked off.
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They did make contact with the person inside that vehicle.
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She was identified as the defendant, dawn light before you.
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When officers spoke with her, they asked her if she was filming.
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It's interesting as this timeline of events that's being presented here, as it's being presented, I'm obviously watching light throughout this.
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And there's an area through this as she's saying, backed into an area.
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And you can look down here at the screen.
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She does a little teeny tiny nod in there of like, yep, that's correct.
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And then as it's going through and it's getting to the made contact area, you see this expression here.
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The narrowing of the eyes and the light activation, you can see it down here, right?
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If you watch her bottom lip there, you can see mild activation upwards and that chin boss activation usually is pushing into what's called a mouth shrug.
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And a mouth shrug is the facial equivalent, more or less, to a shoulder shrug.
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Now with the narrowing of the eyes and that mouth shrug in there, to me, that's letting me know that light does not fully agree with that.
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The narrowing of the eyes, that's suspicion, that's scorn, that's frustration.
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So seeing that coupled with the, I think that she finds that specific timeline or narrative questionable from her perspective.
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So I would be curious to know what causes this little cluster down here that we're seeing where she's listening, she has that suspicion point, does a blink, looks down,
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and then it continues on.
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She wipes from there.
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It's just more information to be able to make note of as we're going through.
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When officers spoke with her, they asked her if she was filming or taking pictures of anyone in the parking lot.
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She was adamant that she was not.
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She stated that she was waiting to see if Lindsay Clancy would come out of the building.
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When state police asked her if they could look through her phone.
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Interesting again here before the guard comes in here,
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I'll rewind it now where she's talking about the officers kind of interacting with her where the attorney is talking about that.
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You could see on Light's face, it's developed further.
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It's no longer a mouth shrug of uncertainty and some suspicion in there of like, I don't think that that's quite right.
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It's developed further beyond that.
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Now we're seeing, we're seeing heavy, heavy activation here in the corners of her nose, which is indicative commonly of disgust.
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And then we're seeing the same cluster up here at the top with her eyebrows being drawn together and her eyes narrowing.
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That disgust is an amplification.
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No longer is it just the mouth shrug of perhaps, I don't know about that.
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It's now, not only do I not know about that, I also have a level of contention against that.
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That I would not agree with.
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That's kind of what she's communicating with her nonverbal communication there.
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Then we have this guard come in here, down here on the screen, and it's difficult to see what he's saying, but her response to that,
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she obviously leans in, she's listening, she raises her eyebrows.
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Again, that eyebrow flash, that eyebrow raise is a very common social interaction when a person's like wanting to listen.
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They'll be like, what was that kind of thing?
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You'll see that come up.
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But also when they're trying to make a point of like, you need to do this.
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Eyebrows will come up.
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The eyebrow flash like that is a very social nonverbal display from the face.
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So she does that when he comes over and then the only thing that she seems to do says, I think she says down here,
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a gotcha of a course or something along those lines.
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But the only thing that's really changed after her smile, she tunes back in and she has her hand out of her pocket.
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That's the biggest difference that I'm seeing there.
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So I wonder what's going on with that interaction that caused that to happen there.
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And that couples with this take your glasses off aspect
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that we saw earlier on where she just put them on
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and immediately took them off after seeing somebody off to the side.
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So I'm wondering how heavily coached she is feeling at this moment to behave in a specific way
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while interacting in this situation due to all of these corrections.
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The reason that that's important for me to keep in mind is
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that that adds an extra layer of cognitive processing over what her nonverbal communication might actually present
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because she's actively seemingly trying to meter it as inspired by external forces.
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That adds some complications to it, but with that, when a person is actively trying to meter all of their nonverbal communication, unless they're a very versed liar
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or perhaps an actor who has been able to get into a certain character or something along those lines,
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it's very difficult for a person to manage all of their nonverbal communication all at the same time without letting something slip.
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Again, if it can be explained away by the account, the baseline, or the context, then you can't hold too much weight to it.
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There has to be more.
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It's extremely, extremely difficult, if not impossible at this point in our understanding of nonverbal communication to have a black
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and white 100% or 0% kind of answer.
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Just wanted to add all of that for clarity.
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We're going to continue on through this.
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Through her phone, at her photographs, she did consent.
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She gave them the phone in which they began to look through her photos.
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At that time, they did not see any videos or photographs of any individuals in the parking lot.
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Interesting for this.
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Talking about the photos, we'll rewind here just a second.
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She's saying officers asked for the phone, gave phone, all of that.
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And you could see again, nonverbal nod in there.
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She's agreeing.
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She's like, yep, that is what the narrative was.
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And then going through and the officers didn't see any photos initially.
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But then it's after that, that we see a spike from her baseline.
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She, you know, she's been maintaining fairly steady eye contact and less interrupted by an external influence.
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And now we're seeing, we've gotten to this point of the photos, didn't see anything initially.
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And if you watch here, she goes from holding fairly stationary to a full tilt, reposturing, her legs move, her body moves,
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and she looks into a different direction and that little pop, there are multiple channels that are in there and it happens right after a specific stimulus.
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It's enough of like, okay, I see something.
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I should pay attention here.
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That lets me know that this photos aspect
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and what was initially apparent is causing her some discomfort due to all of the lighting up of her nonverbal communication.
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Whenever you see that pop out like that.
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Something extra psychological has happened with that.
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And oftentimes in cases like this, it will be something more implicative in this scenario.
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If it wasn't, there wouldn't be a need for a psychological response that heavily.
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Now, as to what that implication actually is, is where the details are for this.
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It's around the jurors and all of that.
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But you can't say that just from the body language.
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You could just be like, okay, I see that she's anxious about this.
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We need to figure out why.
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But she is without a doubt.
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This has affected her psychologically, as you can see through that no movement to sudden at all movements everywhere, rocking, moving, looking, everything like that.
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It all of it pops up, lights up right there.
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So that's just something that I wanted to also call light to.
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These photos and the concept of it causes her stress.
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She stated she did not know how to do that.
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She let troopers get the phone and go through her deleted photos.
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in the deleted folders file, they did locate a video of a number of individuals coming out of the courthouse building from the vantage point
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that she was located in.
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Interesting.
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So now we're talking about the deleted photos.
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She does a pretty substantial look down.
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Maybe that is a chin tucking behavior, which that would stray into that defensiveness that I mentioned earlier.
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Vulnerable tuck when you're feeling defensive, stressed, or threatened on some level.
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So maybe that's what's going on.
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She could also just be looking down.
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Now, what kind of pushes me away from her just looking down at
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that instance is then she also has a substantial facial manipulator.
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And the manipulator that I'm referring to in this is not like a person who manipulates a person.
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A manipulator is when one portion of a human body manipulates either another portion of the body.
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It can be clothing as well, jewelry.
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It's a manipulation, object to object manipulation. So manipulator.
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And she has it down here, as you can see.
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And when it comes up, she has the one and only pretty substantial rubbing of her eye.
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Now, that being said, she also has a blink before that.
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You could see right below, she has a couple blinks in there, blink, blink, blink.
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And then she reaches up and rubs her eye and then that's kind of the end of it.
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Maybe it was a mechanical need.
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Her eye itched a little bit and she just needed to rub her eye or something along those lines.
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She doesn't do it anywhere else.
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So it is still a pop.
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It could possibly be explained by environment.
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It wouldn't necessarily hang everything on that, but it was across a couple of different channels
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that we're seeing these movements
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so it is still a pin a point of interest a red flag you want to pay attention to it
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if it's in a situation that enables it
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or is requiring of it this would be one of those areas to circle back around those are all aspects
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that we're seeing so far let's continue on through from the vantage point
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that she was located in state police then spoke with court officers who were then able to confirm
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that those individuals in those videos were the jurors in regards to the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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At that point, she was taken.
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Gives us more context right there.
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Those were the jurors from the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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Now, as she's saying that, obviously, we're seeing a huge macro shake no, which the no shakes, the nods, the head movements are culturally based.
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She's from the U.S and in the U.S., the verticals are yeses and the horizontals are noes.
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So we're seeing that no in there makes sense for everybody in this specific culture
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that she's in and some other ones
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that it's not for all of the globe that's where baseline
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culture context all of that's very important to be able to keep mind of hers is a no
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and then on top of that as she's saying
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that you can see if you watch her mouth ever
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so slight activation of the corner of her mouth there there's
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the possibility of it activating on both sides it's difficult to say
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because we're kind of doing a side profile here but seeing
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that come in there that would be contempt which is a feeling of moral or intellectual superiority.
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And then on top of that, you see the chin raise a little bit more and the head cock a little bit more, which gives us
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that clarity from earlier where I was saying this could be
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her being like attempting to put on a front of confidence and I'm not feeling attacked by this.
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And so I'm doing these sorts of displays, seeing it in an area like this too, coupled with that other bit of nonverbal clustering that gives us that understanding.
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That is what was happening earlier on.
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That's how she represents that she doesn't agree with and she feels unaffronted by something.
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She does not feel threatened by it.
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Comes out that way.
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She disagreed with that mindset of these were photos of the jurors.
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And that makes sense with the account that she'll have here in a second.
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Into custody.
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And those are essentially the facts.
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Judge, the Commonwealth is asking for $50,000 cash bail based on the facts of this case. $50,000 is a,
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you know, that's a chunk of change there
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and as that's being brought up here you can see just ever
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so slight activation here underneath the eyes I'll show you
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and that's called the eye tensing you can see it there just
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so so slight again that that's an indicator of she does not agree with
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that there's some scorn or suspicion there's confrontation regarding
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that specific side of things which makes sense it's fifty thousand dollars that's a lot
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so it would make sense to see her have
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that sort of emotional response to it it's definitely being communicated again through her eyes.
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So with that, perhaps there's the possibility that she is just
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that communicative with her eyes and possibly unaware of how much she does communicate with them.
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As well as the investigation that was put through,
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officers were able to look at surveillance video from the courthouse where they did see this defendant's car.
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She pulls into the parking lot and they are able to track her through the parking lot, through the front of the courthouse,
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and then she parks in the back employee lot backs in and is facing the restricted area.
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Miss Light's actions yesterday are extreme.
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All right.
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So going through that, obviously, all of the things that I've mentioned before, you've seen as she's trying to compute what's going on with that.
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You've seen the eyebrow activation, all of that.
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We're going to talk about this expression here that we're having here on the screen.
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Very overt lips pressed together upside down, we're doing a partial mouth shrug, you could see that predominantly again through the chin boss.
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That's the thing that drives a mouth shrug as opposed to something like an actual crying grief frown.
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When we're seeing this sort of expression here with the lips press like that, one of the things that Joe Navarro, who is a big name in body language,
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something that he saw through his fieldwork with the FBI is something
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that I do kind of appreciate is that when the lips disappear, I think is the way that he says this
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when the lips disappear it's like anger is near
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or frustration is near negativity is near and that that coming out
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and there kind of makes sense maybe she's feeling frustrated
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or angry about an aspect of that possibly the reason
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that I'm a little less believing of that is
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because of the activity up here in her eyes you're seeing
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that there's no activation really in her glabella region
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and then also along with
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that in her eyes themselves she's not squinting there's no tenseness around
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that so that sort of move possibly it is definitely muddy to be sure
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but it's a substantial emotional expression
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that i wanted to call light to uh it just doesn't
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have enough around it to be able to say like oh
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this is the exact meaning for this specific movement are extremely extremely um there's a lot of issues that come with it.
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It's very clear that this is a situation that is very serious for the Commonwealth.
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This is a case in which she is,
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she is, excuse me, she is filming jurors that are coming out of the building.
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This is
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if i could just have one moment your
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honor yes i need a water
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yep the courthouse has taken
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extraordinary measures for this case to protect the protocols as well as the safety
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and sanctity of the um this individual is not only videoing jurors
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that are coming in
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and out of the courthouse she went back there to a restricted area she was caught in
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that restricted area the sanctity of the judicial system is at risk because of her actions
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it's an extremely serious matter for the commonwealth
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and the integrity of the proceedings The Commonwealth does believe that $50,000
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is more than reasonable in this case due to the nature and circumstances of this defendant's actions.
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A lot of time and attention, as well as work from the court,
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the court officers, the staff of this court to protect the sanctity of the judicial system these jurors,
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there was a court order by Judge Sullivan in which there was a supplemental order regarding protocol for media coverage of view.
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Essentially, according to Judge Sullivan in Rule 119-2b, the court prohibits the filming or photographing of any juror at any time,
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including during court proceedings and court-conducted view.
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No person shall contact, follow, interview, or communicate in any way with the juror prior to the discharge of the jury
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or otherwise harass or tamper with the juror before, during, or after the view.
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Although she states that she was looking for Lindsay Clancy to come out of the courthouse, it was clear that she was filming the jurors.
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Court officers were able to determine she was videoing the jurors,
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and she was in clear violation of the order by Judge Sullivan in this case.
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For those reasons, Your Honor, the Commonwealth is asking for $50,000 cash bail, as well as the conditions set forth,
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that she not come into any contact with any potential jurors, witnesses in the case, as well as to stay off of court grounds,
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as well as the courthouse itself.
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I'll let you use all of the information
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that we've talked about already to relate to her responding and reacting to all these things.
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The glabella action, the shaking of the head, the lip compressions, all of that.
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That all still exists throughout this as we're going through.
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Something else that does strike me as interesting
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that she does during this time is again once it's coming
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around to this photographing of the jurors we're seeing the other only time
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that we've seen a manipulator come up to her face and it's on the other eye this time.
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It wasn't this eye, it's now this this one and so maybe both of her eyes are itching.
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Could also be like we we mentioned, she has glasses.
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She needs them to see.
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Maybe her eyes start to bother her if she doesn't wear those glasses long enough.
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So it could be explained away by the context.
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It is interesting that that spikes when it comes around to the photographs again, which is where it spiked last time as well.
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She obviously does not agree with this mindset of I was filming the jurors.
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She was looking for Lindsay Clancy, which I can see where she has that delineation.
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However, I don't think that that delineation clears up this matter.
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I think that it is an important one for this specific, the minutia, the details of this specific instance,
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but I think the overarching issue at hand still exists regardless of those details.
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Regardless, as this goes on and we kind of get these past these portions that Light obviously does not agree with, she's showing very clearly non-verbally that she doesn't.
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Now that we've gotten kind of past that and she's responded to those non-verbally.
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Now we're seeing this again down here at the screen.
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You could see it.
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It's very clear.
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A lot of exposing of the neck there.
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And again, tilting the head at an angle.
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She's almost looking down her nose at what's going on here.
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And it's, again, that defiance, perhaps confidence.
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It all communicates this.
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You've got this wrong and I do not agree with you.
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And I feel confident in not agreeing with you.
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So much so that I'm not going to, I'm not defensive.
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I'm not closing in.
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I'm not feeling tense.
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I'm showing that I'm not threatened by this.
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Which we'll talk about part of the issues around that here at the end.
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Am I right that Ms. Light has no prior criminal record?
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She does not have any prior record.
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The commonwealth's request is based on the facts of the case
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as well as the seriousness of the facts of the case where she is tampering essentially with the jurors in this case.
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Thank you.
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Trenny White.
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Thank you, Your Honor.
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Your Honor, my client strongly opposes that was
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that was a pretty lackluster attempt at polite like a polite
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expression there at the end we'll rewind it she's like man
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this is the worst here on the screen eyebrows drawn together
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lowered frustration eye blocking gesture the same tight-lipped pursed-lipped expression that's
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all frustration that's disdain that's some disgust as we're seeing obviously again in the corners of her nose down in there.
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She has a whole slew of bad, bad emotional responses to that mindset of tampering with the jurors.
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And then thank you, your honor happens.
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And she's like, Oh, I got it.
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I got to respond.
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And so she busts out this expression here, which is eyebrow flash.
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I'm being social and being, you know, warm and open to something.
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But the bottom half of her face is saying anything
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but just a poorly masked frustration with some of this more socially lubricated nonverbal communication of, yes, I'm open to it.
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Yes, 100%.
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But realistically, no, we'll hear how that kind of plays out.
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I strongly opposes Commonwealth's request for $50,000 cash bail.
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Miss Light is a retired registered nurse who's worked as a registered nurse for over 25 years.
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She is now on a fixed income
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and unable to post this sale she's resided in sutton massachusetts for over 30 years
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and she raised her children there she is not a flight risk obviously has very strong ties to our community
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and in addition your honor as your honor just inquired my client has no record she's 56 years old
507
and has been an upstanding citizen this is a complete misunderstanding
508
your honor as my sister just stated my client was seeking a picture of Ms. Clancy
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and had no intention of any interaction with the jurors.
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Your Honor, my client also understands the magnitude and the seriousness of this charge.
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She has the utmost respect for our judicial system.
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For these reasons, Your Honor, we're asking that the court denies Commonwealth's request for $50,000 bail, but Ms. Light does agree to the stay away conditions that the Commonwealth has requested,
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and she also does agree to preserve any possible evidence.
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Anything else, Commonwealth?
515
No, you're on.
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Okay.
517
All right.
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The purpose of bail is to assure the defendant's appearance in court, as noted by both the Commonwealth and the defendant, the defense counsel.
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The defendant has no prior record and appeared this morning after her arrest.
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It was yesterday afternoon.
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Is that correct, Commonwealth?
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That is correct.
523
Okay.
524
All right.
525
While not imposing a cash bail, the court does find it necessary to impose the conditions requested by the commonwealth
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so she'll be ordered to stay away from the courthouse grounds and obviously that would be
527
exclude any court appearances going forward she's ordered to stay away
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and have no contact with any any jurors
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or witnesses in the lindsey clancy trial she used to refrain
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from disseminating photos from her eye cloud of any photographs taken and related to the incident
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I think that was all of the conditions.
532
That is correct.
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Okay.
534
And would you like to preserve evidence?
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Yes.
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And she's agreed to that condition.
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Yes, you're on.
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Okay.
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And judge if I could just where I did cite the, the court order, the rule 1 19 to be.
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Which is in regards to protocols for media coverage and preview
541
if I could just ask that you comply with that as well.
542
Thank you.
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How do you want that word? worded the comply with what was the order
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that order number in accordance to rule 119 to be
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and i can provide a copy for the court uh no that's okay i just want to make sure
546
that the condition is clear so comply with rule 119 to be okay
547
and you want to we'll use the date of october 15th
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yes attorney white was for bail only on the commonwealth versus dawn light 26 59 cr 1187
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Court's going to enter a not guilty plea on your behalf.
550
October 15th of 2026 is your return date for a pretrial hearing.
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Personal recognizance.
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Attorney White was for bail only.
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Bail colloquy was given.
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You have all of these stay away conditions, the specifics and the breakdown.
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You're to refrain from photos, preserve evidence.
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All of the specific terms
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and conditions outlined by the judge in this court will be
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signed off with probation second floor before you leave the building
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today all parties on the light matter you're all set thank
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you thank you madam second floor probation before you leave the building today thank you
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and that's where that actual the the whole
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that that's it that's the whole thing we went through the
563
entirety of it thanks for sticking with as we had the areas where there just wasn't too much to talk about there.
564
At the end obviously things that had needed to be communicated had been communicated this
565
is uh that I think
566
that this wrapped up as nicely as this specific situation can the person didn't do much damage
567
and accepted all of the parameters around it aside from the $50,000 that situation there.
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But even with this wrapping up so nicely, this situation I think highlights a lot of what is very difficult around this case.
569
And it's the mindset of taking things from an online perspective or a moved perspective,
570
intersocial situation where you chat about it with your friends or watch videos on the internet,
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something like that, takes it from that area and then it moves it into tangible real life down rubber hitch road situation.
572
And that's where it starts getting problematic.
573
This case has been so pervasive in the media.
574
Again, the possibility of finding another jury set that has not heard about it and already developed an opinion is,
575
that is a task that I do not envy whoever it is that's trying to find these folks.
576
It's going to be very difficult.
577
everybody's very very opinionated on it and it's very polarized it's it's
578
so interesting to watch how this dynamic has played out uh
579
there are two very distinct camps of patrick did it
580
and lindsey did it
581
and from the legality side of things how everything is moving forward it seems as though lindsey has admitted
582
and patrick has admitted and everybody is agreeing that lindsey did it
583
but that there are these details that are the the minutiae around it
584
that are is was she in psychosis was she not.
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Like that's kind of what the legal side is representing it.
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On the opposite side, on the internet's side of things.
587
Everybody is concerned for a number of both valid and invalid reasons.
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On some levels I do think that many people are confirmation biasing their way through this case.
589
They look for a thing because they want to find
590
that thing then they'll find that thing and plug it in
591
and make it fit and because it fits then they can move on down that way when they're not actually asking like, how does this fit anywhere else?
592
Or how can I be proven wrong in this situation?
593
They're only asking, how can I be proven right?
594
Which leads down the road to confirmation bias.
595
I do think that that is a player in this game.
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I also do think that it would be difficult to deny the fact
597
that there are some details specifically around the evidences
598
and the investigation itself that seems like it might not be holding the weight that is wanted to be presented.
599
So I also understand that camp.
600
Where I do take issue though is if you are in either camp, don't get involved on a direct level like this.
601
Everybody has free speech.
602
Everybody can say what they want to on the internet.
603
Everybody is, you know, they're able to have their opinion as long as they qualify it as an opinion
604
and they're not intentionally trying to disperse wrong information.
605
They're not trying to be misinformation filled or disinformation filled.
606
They're trying their best to say what they think is actually true, they have the right to free speech.
607
That's fine.
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And especially when there's removal that way.
609
It's when you, when you cross that boundary of now, now you're no longer just right of free speech.
610
For instance, Ms. Light here, she broke multiple legalities to get a picture of what she's saying.
611
She just wanted a picture or a video of Lindsay Clancy.
612
No need for it.
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Nobody actually, nobody outside of the courtroom needs anything from inside the courtroom.
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It's not our job.
615
It's not our business.
616
It is exclusively the people inside.
617
That being said, this is such a public case.
618
Everybody has opinions.
619
And I think that everybody who has the opinions that they do, regardless of how strong or which side it's on, I think everybody is really still gunning for the same concept.
620
They're all doing this out of something of care, of wanting justice, of wanting fairness and all of these aspects.
621
I think everybody wants those things.
622
I think it's just everybody's so ready to attack, demean, and in some cases like this,
623
break boundaries, even legal boundaries, to try to produce things for their side of things,
624
when in reality, again, it's just as much as it's difficult to swallow, it's just not our place.
625
And that's where I think a lot of people are straying and becoming problematic, even so much so that some of the players within the courtroom themselves have issued warnings of like,
626
hey, all of these people that are spreading misinformation or disinformation, be wary, you know, be prepared.
627
This could have a backlash on you, which I think is a valid thing.
628
It's so messy all the way around.
629
So let me know your thoughts in the comments of this video.
630
Which camp are you in and why?
631
Try to be civil because realistically speaking, being very negative or attacking or abrasive or harsh or condescending
632
or rude or mean or whatever to the other party is never going to lend towards progress.
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It just doesn't.
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So if you do have an opinion, let us know in the comments of the video.
635
Let us know thoughtfully in the comments of the video why you believe that.
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Don't be condescending.
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Don't be a dick, regardless of what side you're from.
638
And hopefully that will engage people into something that's more productive instead of just Regardless, that's all that I've got for the day.
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My name is Logan and you have been oh so awesome as you always are.
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And I will see you in the next video.
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Cheers guys!
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you’ll practice English speaking by analyzing a video that combines conversational dialogue with technical explanations. You’ll focus on understanding natural speech patterns, including how speakers transition between casual and formal tones, and how to interpret context-rich language. This practice will help you improve your listening comprehension and ability to mimic real-world English, making it ideal for english speaking practice.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Deliberations: The process of discussing and considering a decision (e.g., "Jurors’ deliberations took weeks").
- Hung jury: A jury that cannot reach a unanimous verdict (e.g., "The case ended in a hung jury").
- Nonverbal communication: Communication through body language or facial expressions (e.g., "Her nonverbal communication revealed stress").
- Baseline: A standard level of behavior used for comparison (e.g., "We established a baseline for his normal speech").
- Idiosyncrasies: Unique, individual traits (e.g., "Her idiosyncrasies included frequent hand gestures").
Practice Tips
To get the most out of this video for shadow speech practice, start by watching it once to grasp the overall context. The speaker uses a mix of casual phrases ("Well hey there") and technical terms ("Facial Action Coding System"), so focus on mimicking the pace—slow down for complex ideas and speed up for conversational parts. Use a shadowing app to record yourself and compare it to the original; this will help you notice differences in pronunciation and intonation. Pay attention to pauses: the speaker pauses before key points (e.g., "More on that in just a second"), which is a common technique to emphasize information. Practice repeating these pauses to sound more natural. For improve english pronunciation, focus on words with tricky stress, like "deliberations" (de-LIB-er-ay-shuns) and "idiosyncrasies" (id-ee-oh-SIN-krah-seez). Finally, shadow small sections at a time—30 seconds to a minute—to build accuracy before tackling longer segments. This method will help you master both the content and the rhythm of real English speech.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | has been going · have been filming |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if Lindsay Clancy would come · If it wasn't, there wouldn't be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been · have formed · has overstepped |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was charged · was pioneered · being directed |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.