The Karen Read Trial 2.0- (Day 12: Morning) LIVEWATCH WITH ATTORNEY ANALYSIS

SO FAR: Yesterday, Trooper Conner Keefe came in and presented physical evidence to the jury in the form of O'Keefe's shoe and pieces of taillight found in the snow. With the State's Cellular Forensic expert, Jessica Hyde, set to testify, there was a lengthy legal argument about the nature of cross that Cannone decided in favor of the State restricting Defense's ability to raise flaws identified with Hyde's analysis in other trials. Forensic digital expert Jessica Hyde testified that McCabe did not search for "Hos long to die in cold" until 6:24 AM and did not herself delete the search. On cross, Hyde admitted, inter alia, that the State's failure to insulate Johm O'Keefe's phone from further interaction with the internet from 6:04 AM til AT LEAST noon that day was not how she would have processed the evidence.

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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