Karen Read accused of backing into boyfriend and leaving him to die *NOT GUILTY* (Guilty of OUI) (17 Viewers)

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This woman didn't do this. I'd be willing to bet that someone in the house did it. Someone in the house looked up "How long will it take for somebody to die in the cold." Karen couldn't have done that search.

Is there a cover up conspiracy?

 
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wasn't in the mood for this one today. finally went in and Alessi with more drama. Have it playing right now but about ready to shut off lol.
 
Tresir said:
Yeah i know but how would we know? The feds don't share their reasoning do they? We know sh!t about any fed investigation. Same as the jury actually.
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I agree. Maybe she meant it rhetorically. The subject has come up in hearings and that is likely as much as can be found on it. Not sure we even know fully why the feds got them. I sure can't give the answer.
 
I watched a small part of the ME witness testimony today. I thought her evidence about the cause of his head injuries was very good and thorough. Specifically the bit about the wound on the back of his head and how it caused the racoon eyes.
 
Tresir said:
I watched a small part of the ME witness testimony today. I thought her evidence about the cause of his head injuries was very good and thorough. Specifically the bit about the wound on the back of his head and how it caused the racoon eyes.
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Wouldn't know and wasn't in the mood so didn't go back to see anything on it. If she was the same one they were doing voir dire on in the morning, she came across to me as very almost a bit juvenile and inexperienced although trying to act like an expert and it not really working trying to get around some questions. They wanted her to be seen as a dog bite expert and she quite clearly was not. Did she have a number of years in general things? Yes. Specific experience in any area? Or expertise? No.

If that's the best they can do, they are still in trouble imo. Of course lucky for them jury did not see the voir dire.

I just really had no desire to even do a recap for anything I missed. They are so clearly trying to drum up enough to make a fairytale, this time totally expected by the P, and don't have anyone quality so far to do it that I'm just not that into the b.s.

The minute I thought Daybelll was on I was done with the b.s. and left. Then Daybell was somewhat delayed but regardless, I was not coming back to this one. I think I've given it and the D has had what? Four days now? They haven't managed a thing and all of it has been anticipated this time. Great job by the P throughout imo. Very well prepared.
 
Won't be long now hopefully.



When will Karen Read's defense rest?​

Rentschler worked with crash reconstructionist Dr. Andrew Wolfe at the engineering consulting firm ARCCA, which has been at the center of contentious hearings throughout Read's trial. Wolfe finished testifying Monday after two days on the stand.

Jackson said he expected to question Rentschler for about three hours, possibly more, as the final defense witness. When Rentschler is done on the stand, Brennan said he plans to call several rebuttal witnesses.

Once all witness testimony is finished in the coming days, closing statements will be held and the jury will get the case.

Rentschler will be the 11th defense witness called. Brennan called 38 witnesses so far, with more now expected.

Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. Read's first trial in 2024 ended with a mistrial due to a "starkly divided" hung jury.
 
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Tresir said:
Won't be long now hopefully.



When will Karen Read's defense rest?​

Rentschler worked with crash reconstructionist Dr. Andrew Wolfe at the engineering consulting firm ARCCA, which has been at the center of contentious hearings throughout Read's trial. Wolfe finished testifying Monday after two days on the stand.

Jackson said he expected to question Rentschler for about three hours, possibly more, as the final defense witness. When Rentschler is done on the stand, Brennan said he plans to call several rebuttal witnesses.

Once all witness testimony is finished in the coming days, closing statements will be held and the jury will get the case.

Rentschler will be the 11th defense witness called. Brennan called 38 witnesses so far, with more now expected.

Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. Read's first trial in 2024 ended with a mistrial due to a "starkly divided" hung jury.
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I have thought throughout here that rebuttal is going to be good. That thought has struck me many a time. The D has failed to even take off this time imo. Oh there has been an attempt or two but nowhere near prepared for it as the P was. Just shows the difference such can make. The first time was a planned ambush. Not this time.

Far more fair and as it should be.

This is a case some will never agree on so I know not all will agree with that but when the blinders are clear, that's the truth. It's been an attempt by using media, the public and you name it to try to create a fairy tale. With no real basis, there never was one.

Anyhow the jury is what matters. And if there were truly people that remained in a jury pool the D tried to taint forever.
 
Last witness for the D.

www.usatoday.com

Karen Read trial live updates: Defense calls last expected witness

Prosecutors accuse Karen Read of killing her Boston cop boyfriend, John O'Keefe. She says she was framed.
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Karen Read's second murder trial continued Tuesday with testimony from a defense expert who says John O’Keefe likely smashed his skull during a fall backward, but did not die from hypothermia as a medical examiner previously suggested.
After retaking the stand, Elizabeth Laposata, a forensic pathologist and former medical examiner, told jurors she believes O'Keefe fell unconscious immediately after hitting his head on a ridged object and was bitten and scratched by an animal, based on an analysis of his injuries.
Her testimony is pivotal to Read's defense and directly counters testimony from prosecution witnesses.
Prosecutors allege the 45-year-old Massachusetts woman backed into O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her Lexus SUV in a fit of jealousy after a night of drinking and then left him to die in the snow outside the home of another cop.
But her defense has long maintained that Read was framed for the crime by people inside the house, who they say beat O’Keefe, let a dog attack him and then dropped his body on the front lawn. They’ve argued that police purposefully bungled the investigation into O’Keefe’s death.

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Karen Read is accused of murdering boyfriend John O'Keefe. She is on trial for the second time.
Misty Marris, a New York-based legal expert who has followed the case closely, told USA TODAY Read's case is shaping up to be a "true battle of the experts."
Jurors will soon deliberate on the mountains of evidence presented over the last two months. They'll decide if Read is guilty of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death.
This is Read’s second trial after her first ended in July 2024 in a hung jury.
Lawyer Alan Jackson, one of Read's defense attornies, said Monday he expects to call biomechanist Andrew Rentschler Tuesday as the eleventh and final defense witness. Questioning Rentschler should take about three hours, Jackson told Judge Beverly Cannone.
The prosecution will then call several more witnesses to rebut the defense’s arguments, before closing arguments.

Defense calls last expected witness​

The defense called Andrew Rentschler, an accident reconstructionist and biomechanist, a few minutes before 3 p.m. He is expected to be their last witness.

When did John O'Keefe die?​

Brennan, the commonwealth’s attorney, briefly questioned Elizabeth Laposata about criticism she received for her handling of a high-profile case during her time as Rhode Island’s chief medical examiner.
Laposata is a clinical associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine.
Laposata said she received a “flurry” of negative press for “erroneous” reasons in the position and resigned after learning about budget cuts. She now works as a consultant for civil and criminal cases.
Turning back to O’Keefe’s injuries, Brennan asked Laposata if she knew where the scratch on his nose came from. Earlier in the trial, Brennan played a clip of Read saying she saw a piece of glass wedged into O’Keefe’s nose when she found him lying in the snow in the early morning of Jan. 29, 2022.
“As soon as I pulled it, it just gushed blood down his face,” Read said in the clip.
If O’Keefe was dead, his body would not have squirted blood when the piece of glass was removed because there would be no blood pressure, Laposata said. She said the blood could have trickled out of the wound.
Brennan's questions appeared aimed at establishing O’Keefe was still alive when Read found his body.

Prosecution to question Laposata's credibility​

The judge said she will allow the prosecution to question Laposata about a 2005 audit into the medical examiner’s office Laposata led. Brennan suggested the audit, which alleges maleficence, will call Laposata’s credibility into question.
Read’s lawyer said the prosecution was falsely characterizing the report's findings. The judge said Jackson could seek to show that and “rehabilitate her” as a witness during his redirect.
The defense and prosecution also presented motions relevant to the next expected witness, Andrew Rentschler.

'It didn’t hit him, so it doesn’t matter,' witness says ​

Laposata became argumentative at the beginning of cross examination, responding to the prosecutor's “good afternoon” greeting by saying “it’s six minutes until afternoon."
During the ensuing back-and-forth, Laposata disagreed with nearly everything the prosecutor said. In his most impactful line of questioning, Brennan asked Laposata whether frozen ground could cause a skull fracture. She said it could but argued the O’Keefe’s injuries didn’t match the pattern she’d expect to see if he fell outside.
Laposata said she looked at photos of 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Masssachusetts, where O’Keefe’s body was found, and didn’t see ridged surfaces, such as rocks or bumps needed to cause O’Keefe’s injury.
When Brennan asked about what evidence she reviewed, including the speed of Read’s vehicle, Laposata responded: “Well it didn't hit him, so it doesn't matter.”
“By looking at the body I could tell there was no evidence of impact with a vehicle so whether the vehicle was going slow or fast was not relevant.” she said.

Analysis of O'Keefe's injuries key to defense's case​

Read’s defense team has repeatedly told jurors O’Keefe’s injuries were not caused by a car crash. Their case largely revolves around large, horizontal gashes found on O’Keefe’s right arm and fractures to his skull, as well as the lack of bruises on his body.
Laposata's testimony Monday was critical to their argument. She told jurors the spoiler on Read’s car likely would have caused a ribbon of bruises on O’Keefe’s forehead if he was hit, but his body showed no such injury.
Based on O’Keefe’s skull fracture and brain damage, she said he likely fell unconscious immediately after he hit his head, causing brain swelling and then death. He sustained the wounds on his arm while he was still alive, she said, and told jurors she doesn’t believe O’Keefe died of hypothermia and instead froze after his death.
That counters prosecution witness Aizik Wolf, a Miami-based neurosurgeon who said it is "impossible to know” whether O’Keefe became immediately unconscious from his injuries.
In one of the most impactful pieces of her testimony, Laposata echoed findings from defense witness Marie Russell, an emergency physician and former forensic pathologist, who said the surface-level cuts on O’Keefe’s arm came from an animal's teeth and claws.
Prosecutors have suggested O’Keefe’s injuries were caused by Read’s car smashing into him, causing her taillight to shatter and scrape O’Keefe before sending his body hurtling backward onto the frozen ground.

Who is Elizabeth Laposata?​

Elizabeth Laposata is a clinical associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine.
Judge Beverly Cannone previously ruled Laposata was unqualified to testify about whether markings found on O'Keefe's arm are consistent with dog bite wounds, but can discuss what she believed caused O'Keefe's injuries. On Tuesday, Cannone said Laposata could testify that O'Keefe's injuries were consistent with animal bites she has seen throughout her career.
Cannone's ruling came after the prosecution tried to prevent Laposata from testifying, arguing she did not have the proper expertise.
Laposata is expected to support the defense's argument that O'Keefe did not die in the cold by explaining how his body did not suffer from hypothermia.
Read's defense team previously presented testimony from Marie Russell, an emergency physician and former forensic pathologist, who told jurors she believed surface-level gashes found on O’Keefe’s arm came from canine claws and teeth. They have suggested a German Shepard, which lived at 34 Fairview, attacked O'Keefe.

Will Karen Read testify in her trial?​

Jury instructions filed by Read’s lawyers suggest the Massachusetts woman may not testify in the retrial. They include a section informing the jury of Read’s Fifth Amendment right not to testify, telling them they “may not hold that against her.”
Christopher Dearborn, a law professor at Suffolk University in Boston who has followed the case closely, said the instructions are likely a “harbinger” that Read’s attorneys are not going to call her to the stand, though he noted they could change their mind.
“Frankly, I don't think it would make a lot of sense to call her at this point,” Dearborn said, noting the number of public statements Read has made that could be used against her.
The court has already heard from Read in the trial through clips prosecutors played of interviews in which she questioned whether she “clipped” O’Keefe and admitted to driving while inebriated.
Dearborn told USA TODAY there are two schools of thought around whether to include a section on a defendant's right not to testify in jury instructions. Some defense lawyers don't include the section because they don't want to "draw a bull's eye" around the fact the defendant didn't testify and cause jurors to "speculate," Dearborn said.
Other times, he said, it is the "elephant in the room," and the specific instructions telling the jury they can't hold the defendant's lack of testimony against them are necessary.
 
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I saw none of it today so appreciate the recap. Pretty sure that witness was the one I saw undergo voir dire. And I was not impressed and think I mentioned it. a day or two ago, never did understand why that was coming so late. Now she is allowed to testify and is so juvenile and combative she starts right P gets up to cross about whether it is afternoon or not? Good Lord. Thatwas would NOT work with me as a juror. Might have to go back and see that one at some point just because it sounds like a very unprofessional way to act in a courtroom. It doesn't entirely surprise me having seen voir dire but she wasn't combative quite like THAT. She was imo no dog bite expert as she tried to portray herself other than she had seen some over her years, not a lick of special training, etc. She did not seem then overly professional either but I guess

I tried to provide some kind of thing every day as to what had went on until recently when not able to.

Personally I think the D has shot themselves in the foot and have little and succeeded at little in his one. I guess they could still try for self defense and one never knows a jury but if they truly know nothing of the case, I think they are in trouble.

Then as the article says, her own words have bitten her and she just never learns to stop. IF she is convicted, she herself will be part of the reason imo.

Jmo of course. Well aware some don't likely see it the same.
 
Cannone dismissed the jury for the day shortly after 3:30 p.m., telling jurors to expect a full day in court Wednesday.

“I can tell you, the lawyers tell me that we’re definitely winding down,” she added.

Once jurors left the courtroom, Cannone said it seems Read’s case may be in the jury’s hands by Friday, or Monday at the latest.

This is the most relevant bit from yesterday in court IMO. If you want a recap of the last two defence witnesses, they are also in this link.

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Karen Read trial: Defense team’s expected last witness takes the stand

According to Judge Beverly Cannone, Read’s case may be in jurors’ hands by Friday, or Monday at the latest.
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Yeah even if the D wraps, there is still rebuttal and closings. Forgot about rebuttal, that's why it may go towards end of week I suppose.
 
Karen Read also confirmed yesterday that she will not testify. No surprise there. So both this trial and the Daybell trial are at similar stages as I do not think Lori will testify either. They would both have to lie too much IMO.

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Karen Read Says She Will NOT Testify

Karen Read will NOT take the stand in her murder retrial. She is accused of backing into her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, and leaving him to die.
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Closing arguments set for Friday. Jury have the day off Thursday.


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Karen Read murder trial reaches final stage with closing arguments set for Friday

Murder trial of Karen Read in the death of her former boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, approaches final stage with closing arguments set after extensive testimony.
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Karen Read will soon learn her fate in her second murder trial in the death of Boston cop John O'Keefe, her former boyfriend, with closing arguments scheduled for Friday, following more than 30 days of testimony.
Judge Beverly Cannone gave jurors off for the day Thursday, when the parties will arrive at 10 a.m. for a charging conference.
 
Tresir said:
Karen Read also confirmed yesterday that she will not testify. No surprise there. So both this trial and the Daybell trial are at similar stages as I do not think Lori will testify either. They would both have to lie too much IMO.

www.courttv.com

Karen Read Says She Will NOT Testify

Karen Read will NOT take the stand in her murder retrial. She is accused of backing into her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, and leaving him to die.
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Lol true. Both liars, never going to take the stand. Be so glad to have their ugly faces gone.
 
Tresir said:
Closing arguments set for Friday. Jury have the day off Thursday.


www.foxnews.com

Karen Read murder trial reaches final stage with closing arguments set for Friday

Murder trial of Karen Read in the death of her former boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, approaches final stage with closing arguments set after extensive testimony.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com

Karen Read will soon learn her fate in her second murder trial in the death of Boston cop John O'Keefe, her former boyfriend, with closing arguments scheduled for Friday, following more than 30 days of testimony.
Judge Beverly Cannone gave jurors off for the day Thursday, when the parties will arrive at 10 a.m. for a charging conference.
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I figured this one would be a bit further out than Daybell just because of rebuttal and yeah, they give days off for some reason so this one may be brought into over the weekend into Monday if they don't come back on Friday. Jurors do appreciate breaks I'm sure but they also like to be done. They'll be thinking oh now ANOTHER week. I'd go on Thurday and it would likely be done on Friday but whatever.
 
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