Karen Read's second murder process begins with opening statements

The opening statements begin in the second murder process against Karen Read, who is accused of having met her friend, a police officer in Boston, with her SUV and leaving him dead in a blizzard.

Defender for Read, 45, said she was framed for O’keefe’s death in January 2022.

After ten days in which hundreds of potential jurors were interviewed, the jury’s selection ended on April 15 with nine women and nine selected men. Judge Beverly Cannon said the trial could take six to eight weeks.

The crevice case made aware of Youtubers, sub -tactns and internet shelves and became the subject of podcasts, films and television programs.

Cannon banned the followers on both sides because they demonstrate within 200 feet of the court building in Dedham, Massachusetts, and prompted some of the followers of Read to sue cannons via the order. A federal judge decided on April 14 against Read’s supporters, which means that demonstrators have to stay away from the courthouse.

When the repetition began, Read’s lawyers also asked the nation’s highest court to fall against them. The defense said that the jury in the first court proceedings unanimously agreed to equip them for the second degree murder and to leave the scene of a crash that caused injuries or death, and to resume all of them apart from the third and final charges.

On April 9, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to read the emergency petition that the court asked to pause its repetition until a decision. According to the Supreme Court’s website, an answer to the petition of Read is due until May 5th.

What happened during the first process?

During the first attempt by Read, it took five days to choose 19 jurors and change from a pool of 401 people. More than 65 witnesses were called, including family members, forensic experts and police investigators.

The public prosecutor claimed that Read met O’keefe with her car and let him in front of the house of a police officer in Boston after the couple got into a dispute. They cited evidence, including a broken rear light, on which O’keeefes DNA was found, reports that she “beat him” at the scene of the crime and annoyed VoiceMail messages, which she accused O’keefe of the infidelity on the morning when he died.

In the meantime, the defense claimed that reading had depicted O’keefe, and then a fight broke out in the house and pointed to several other potential suspects. The lawyers of Read cited O’Keefes injuries they can say through a beat and an animal attack, a wrongly written Google search, which was asked by a friend of O’Keefes, how long it takes to die in the cold, and the police as proof of a cover-up.

The first attempt lasted nine weeks. This jury remained coordinated after five days of advice.

How will Karen Read’s second murder process be different?

While Read’s lawyers are allowed to propose alternative suspects, Cannon decided that they can blame none of the people they showed their fingers in the first attempt, citing inadequate evidence.

“It will definitely be different if each page executes its strategy, but the basic story will be the same,” said Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University.

The public prosecutor’s list of witnesses comprises many of the same people who testified in the first legal proceedings, as well as a new witness, Read’s father. Both the public prosecutor and the defense teams have increased their list.

Hank Brennan, a private defender who represented James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, was hired by the district attorney of the district in Norfolk as a special prosecutor to try the case. He is supported by the former senior public prosecutor Adam Lally and Laura McLaughlin.

The defense added two lawyers: Robert Alessi and Victoria George, a former alternative juror from Read’s first process. David Yannetti, Elizabeth Little and Alan Jackson, who represented Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, also remain in the Read team.

Read to face a false death notice

After the second murder process of Read, she has to face a civil lawsuit that was submitted by O’keefes estate and his representative, his brother.

Read’s lawyers who have been submitted to keep the civil proceedings until criminal proceedings have been solved. Judge William White Jr. granted a stay of Read’s deposit and any other discovery that was directly related to her.

Contribution: Christopher Cann, Karissa Waddick and Phaedra Trethan, USA Today; Peter Blandino, Jessica Trufant and David R. Smith, The Patriot -Ledger

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