Judge delays Karen Read murder trial after thousands of pages of new federal evidence emerges
Prosecutors have alleged that Read backed over her boyfriend and left him to die in a blizzard in Canton.
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I watched today's brief hearing. The defense said that there were thousands of pages of documents from the Feds and they would be unable to meet the court's deadlines because there was so much to go through. They also said that the documents were almost all exculpatory. The prosecution on the other hand, said that they had already been through the documents, about 90-95% of which is consistent with the commonwealth's view of the case.
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Here's what the prosecution actually said: “I would say approximately 90% to 95% of the material that we received is consistent with the commonwealth’s theory of the case and the testimony that went into the grand jury of witnesses’ statements. There is some new information that counsel will use in their motion and the commonwealth understands that. However, I would say the evidence as a whole is very consistent with prior statements made by witnesses that testified for the commonwealth.”
Sounds to me like there were some irregularities in the police investigation and/or the witness statements but the prosecutors don't believe it will torpedo their case.
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