Karen Read – Boston Murderer police defendant who won a great cult followed Through his sensational case, he will be tried for the second time on Tuesday after a jury stagnated without hope during the summer.
Opening statements are expected on Tuesday from both parties before a jury of 18, nine men and nine women, on January 29, 2022 death of the read boyfriend, John O’Keefe.
The first Read trial, which saw 74 witnesses take the position and through fans out of the court for about two months, ended in a jury hanging In July.
Reading, from Mansfield, Massachusetts, has maintained its innocence in the event that you acknowledge it of second degree, homicide while operating a motorized vehicle under the influence and leaves the scene of an accident that results in death.
She will face the same charges duration of her re-judgment despite her lawyers Fall supplication to the Superior Court In Massachusetts, to abandon the murder and positions of outrage and escape on the argument that the jury members were allegedly confused and really intended to acquit it for those two positions, while they only blocked in the count of homicide
The Read team also resolves an emergency offer with the United States Supreme Court to postpone its trial claiming that trying again in the two positions that the jury was supposed to intend to acquit it was equivalent to a double danger. The Superior Court is scheduled to listen to its appeal on April 25.
The Re-Train will be headed by a new prosecutor Hank Brennan, who was significantly defended the famous leader of Boston James “Whitey” Bulger. Brennan has said previously hey Plan to try to optimize the new testIn part, reducing the number of witnesses, the prosecution will call the second round.
Read has also added new lawyers to its defense team, including Victoria George, an alternative jury that did not end up deliberating in its first judgment.
Prosecutors claim that reading cut the couple had been drinking in advance.
But read and her lawyers have curled up that she It is a scapegoat in a propagation Cover -up of the application of the law and that or
During the first trial, Read lawyers were allowed to present evidence that they helped to prove that it was a palmadita for the crime that was allegedly carried out by Boston police officer, Brian Albert, owner of the house where the O’Keefe thread.
However, for the second trial, Cannone ruled that Colin Albert, Brian Albert’s nephew, could not be raised by defense as an alternative suspect, there was a link with O’Kefe’s death. The judge also put new limitations on what extent the defense could arrive to raise Brian Albert and Higgins as alleged alternative suspects.
The first test It was marked by the drama Including multitudes of followers who presented themselves to proclaim their innocence, and since then the researcher Michael Proctor admitted a jury in the witness position that sent his friends and family “inappropriate” texts on reading, including C –T. “
Proctor, who was a state police and principal investigator in his case, was presented by unpaid license after the trial and he He was ultimately fired last month.
His case has obtained a culture of worship for innumerable reasons, including the theory of defense that he was supposedly framed by the death of O’Kefe, due to his behavior of the court and because the trial broadcast live has allowed the public to follow closely with all the insents and outs of the case.
Ultimately, only 12 people will have the task of deciding whether reading is guilty. The remaining six panelists will be reserved as alternatives.
With publication cables
