The Karen Read Trial 2.0- LIVEWATCH WITH ATTORNEYS (Day 4: Morning)

SO FAR: On Day 3 the State brought in Mike Camerano who met John and Karen at the bar the night of his murder. Defense did a great job of drawing from Camerano that the couple looked happy, loving and normal and that they had a seemingly typical relationship. State also showed us the VERY LONG all-day text exchange between Karen and John O'Keefe. In the morning they were bickering over how Karen spoils John's kids. Karen appeared clingy and John displayed irritation (that may have been jealousy) about her having a plumber fix her boiler (instead of letting him do it). As the day progressed, they agreed to meet at McCarthy's (a bar) together with Mike Camerano.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
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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