The Karen Read Trial 2.0- (Day 10: Afternoon) LIVEWATCH WITH ATTORNEYS

SO FAR: After concluding the cross examination and redirect of Ofc. Paul Gallagher Alan Jackson got in a powerful finish in his closing cross that Gallagher keeps saying he didnt see any reason to investigate the people in the Albert home "because you never looked." Meteoroligist Robert Gilman testified that less than 0.5 inches of snow had fallen at the time O'Keefe was allegedly struck by Read's vehicle and 3.9" had fallen by the time he was found. Ofc. Nicholas Guaring played 8 voice mails from Karen to O'Keefe made after she drove off until the body was found.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
Cross exam of Guarino. Additional State witnesses.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
During a long and widely watched trial last year, Karen Read was prosecuted for murder in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Allegedly a victim of hitting him with her vehicle. Read is charged with Intentional Murder, Vehicular Manslaughter (Accidental) and Leaving the scene of a "hit and run."

The trial, which included allegations of police misconduct and of a wide-ranging conspiracy among law enforcement officers to frame Read in the killing, ended in a hung jury.

BACKGROUND:
O’Keefe, 46, had been a police officer for 16 years. He was found unresponsive on a snowy January morning outside the suburban home of Brian Albert, a now-retired Boston police sergeant.

O’Keefe was pronounced dead shortly after, and the medical examiner attributed the cause to blunt force trauma to the head and hypothermia. Read, then an equity analyst who had been dating O’Keefe for two years, was arrested in connection with his death days later.

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