RAW COURT AUDIO: Karen Read’s Legal Battle Intensifies as Courtroom Tensions Rise PART 1
Karen Read and her attorneys appeared in court Tuesday for a hearing that could have major implications for her defense. The session followed a dramatic pause last week when Judge Beverly Cannone abruptly ended proceedings after expressing “grave concern” over new details presented by Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan.
Brennan had introduced documents and a $24,000 invoice, arguing that Read’s attorneys engaged experts from ARCCA, an accident reconstruction firm, despite previously telling the court they had not met with these witnesses. The ARCCA experts are crucial to the defense’s claim that Read did not strike her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leave him to die in a snowstorm on January 29, 2022. Read’s attorneys contend she was framed and that law enforcement was involved in O’Keefe’s death.
When the hearing resumed, Judge Cannone noted inconsistencies between Brennan’s claims and her recollection but also questioned why defense attorney Alan Jackson had told her in February that there was no additional discovery related to the ARCCA witnesses.
Defense attorney Robert Alessi pushed back, arguing that any inconsistencies were due to miscommunications rather than intentional deception. “I don’t think it’s the defense that’s creating ghosts, allusions, and shields here,” he said, throwing Brennan’s own words back at him. He also pointed out what he called multiple misstatements from Brennan, arguing that the prosecution had not been entirely transparent either.
Brennan countered that the ARCCA witnesses were falsely presented as independent. “We know that we are getting a fraction of the story,” he said, suggesting that missing records indicate additional undisclosed communication between the defense and these witnesses.
Outside the courthouse, Read was asked whether she feared losing members of her defense team. “Of course, I’d be worried to lose any member of my defense team,” she said. When asked what that would mean, she added, “It would mean an appeal.”
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