Karen read, a woman Massachusetts accused of the murder of her friend police officers in Boston John O’Keefe, in her second court proceedings will not testify, which could be aimed at the jury by Friday.
As in his first court – which ended up in the Mistrial – Read decided not to testify. On Tuesday she spoke outside the courtroom and said, “They heard my voice. They heard me a lot,” he refers to the recorded interviews that have already played for the jurors.
The advocates confirmed that they called their last witness, and the final arguments could start this week.
Fees and alternative theory
Karen Read, 45 years, faces accusations of the murder of the second degree, killing the vehicle while being intoxicated, and leaving the scene of the collision, resulting in death. The prosecutors say O’Keefe with her SUV in drunk rage and let him die in the snow 29 January 2022, in front of the house in Canton in Massachusetts.
But her defense claims that reading is framed on police coverage. He claims that O’Keefe was attacked during a home party, bitten by a dog and threw out during a blizzard.
The accident experts question the theory of collision
Dr. Daniel Wolf, an expert in the reconstruction of the Arkie accident, who previously testified of the prosecution, said on Monday that the damage to Read’s Lexus and O’Keefe’s Clothing were “contrary to the vehicle strike”.
He described impact tests using manifestations and dummies of the whole body dressed as O’Keefe, and said that evidence does not support the claim of criminal prosecution on the collision of the car.
His colleague, Biomechanic Dr. Andrew Rentschler, briefly testified on Tuesday and is expected to expand to his analysis of O’Keefe on Wednesday.
The pathologist refuses to find out the hypothermia
Forensic pathologist Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, a testimony of defense, has questioned an official autopsy that mentions hypothermia as a contributing factor in O’Keefe’s death. She told the jury, “The body had no hypothermia.”
Instead, it attributed the cause of death only to the dull trauma of strength and claimed that the internal swelling of the brain and the pressure on the brain stem were fatal. Furthermore, she said: “Some injuries are very in line with the bite of animals.”
Although the judge forbade her directly to testify about the wounds for dog bite, she said that the injury could be in line with claws or teeth, indicating an attack before death.
Crashing of a medical expert in prosecution
Laposat’s testimony directly challenges the former statement of Dr. Aiza Wolf, a brain surgeon, who told the jurors that the fracture of the skull O’Keefe showed the “classic” signs of reverse fall. Wolf scored a fatal injury O’Keefe fall and hit the back of the head on the solid ground.
But Laposata disagreed and said that the patterns of the wound did not correspond to this scenario. Noted that the grass where O’Keefe was found did not seem to be disturbed in a way in accordance with the fall and says:
“You should tend to see the grass in the wound, or an irregular cross pattern of flattened grass. And that’s not what we have here.”
The case could go to the jury this week
Judge Beverly Cannone, who also chaired the first court, said that the jury could start the hearing on Friday. Given that the defense is expected to rest after Renschler’s continuing testimony on Wednesday, is probably the immediate final statements from both parties.
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Background and fall
The case with a high profile gripped Massachusetts and pointed out national attention due to its mixture of alleged police corruption, forensic controversy and conflict testimony.
Read claims that she is innocent and repeatedly states the belief that she has been unfairly focused. As it is, the jury will consider not only whether it has caused O’Keefe’s death, but also whether the wider story that its defense offers causes adequate doubts.
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