Karen Read murder retrial
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Shortly after her lawyers played video that appeared to show the late John O’Keefe and ATF Agent Brian Higgins gesturing aggressively at one another in a bar in Canton, Massachusetts, Karen Read told reporters she wasn’t paying attention to the interaction.
Jurors, including six alternates, heard blistering closing arguments from Read's defense who argued that the case "was corrupted from the start," while the government insisted she hit her boyfriend Jo
A broken taillight. A dead cop. A bombshell admission. The jury is now deliberating over whether Karen Read killed John O'Keefe.
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Karen Read says she didn't notice an O'Keefe-Higgins bar confrontation before deathKaren Read says she 'was not paying attention' if there was an altercation between Brian Higgins and John O'Keefe less than an hour before she is accused of killing the latter with her Lexus in a drunken hit-and-run.
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“As it stands now, no competent defense counsel would call Mr. Proctor,” Jack Lu, a retired superior court judge, said in an interview before Read’s defense rested this week. “He has the ability to eviscerate the defense but without him they have a path to victory.”
Read’s lawyers again asked Judge Beverly Cannone to issue a finding of not guilty before the case even gets to the jury.
The jury in the Karen Read trial got the day off Thursday, after Read’s defense rested on the 31st day of the retrial for the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. Without the jury in the room,