The Karen Read Trial 2.0- (Day 7: Morning) Cross-Exam of Jen McCabe LIVEWATCH WITH ATTORNEYS

SO FAR: Yesterday, the State's Digital Forensic Analyst, Ian Whiffin, faced nearly 3 hours of cross-exam. He admitted that: i) the cell phone's recorded steps matched the approximate distance from the car to the front door and that he was generally walking in that direction; ii) The victim's phone lost heat much more slowly than phones lost heat in Whiffin's "freezer-battery" tests; iii) he had NO IDEA what the temperature in Canton MA was on the night O'keefe died; and iii) Cellbrite removed the 2:27:40 time stanp from Jen McCabe's phone. On redirect he testified that the battery in his test did not have a coat or warming agent (like a body next to it) to keep it from losing heat quickly and that the data which Cellbrite removed was because it was confusing to customers why a tab would show the wrong time that site was pulled up. He is still on re-direct exam.
In the afternoon, JEN McCabe took the stand and gave much of her direct testimony. In her direct, Jen claimed that she met with Karen and John at a bar with family and friends and the party moved to her sister's house. They saw John and Karen pull up but neither came inside. She was awoken by a frantic Karen read who couldn't stop saying "I hit him I hit him I hit him!" and kept talking about her broken tail light. She is still on direct and is up to the point in the wee hours of the morning after they found a frozed OKeefe and paramedics had arrived. Her narrative complete refutes the defense's version of events so her cross-exam should be fire!!!

WHAT TO EXPECT:
Continued direct Exam of and cross of Jen McCabe. Additional State witnesses as time allows.

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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