MA - Professor Karen Read, 43, charged with murdering police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe by hitting him with car, Canton, 14 Apr 2023 #11

[jepop]

@BienickWCVB

Lally hands Scordi-Bello five photos. She says four show O'Keefe's body at the hospital and another shows him during the autopsy.

Prosecutor Lally displays a picture of O'Keefe at the hospital. His head, chest and one arm are visible. He's attached to medical equipment. His head injuries are visible. Jurors are looking at the screen and have no visible reaction.

Now Lally is showing a close-up of O'Keefe's right arm with what Scordi-Bello describes as superficial abrasions. "I do not know how they came to be," she says. Says they did not contribute to his death.

Scordi-Bello says the bruise and two small dots on the back of O'Keefe's right hand could be first attempts by first-responders to insert an IV.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1804142061144113446

RBBM She had no curiosity or saw no necessity to analyse the arm wounds because she considered they did not contribute to his cause of death? Are the arm injuries irrelvant then in her mind to the overall circumstances re his manner of death?

 

[arielilane]

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[arielilane]

@SueNBCBoston

Lally asks if all pedestrian injuries are the same.
-no
Dr. Scordi-Bello explaining she saw no injuries in the lower extremities and the car had a higher tail light & bumper.

2 jurors just looked at each other and made a face.

 

[arielilane]

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[arielilane]

@TedDanielnews

Dr. Scordi-Bello says JO did not have classic pedestrian strike injuries, but she says there are a lot of factors that make up a pedestrian collision She says there were no lower extremity injuries but the SUV had a higher taillight and bumper


9:28 AM · Jun 21, 2024

 

[arielilane]

@KristinaRex

Dr. Scordi-Bello is reviewing autopsy photos of John O'Keefe, being shown to the jury. They all look solemn and are glued to the screen. The judge warned them that they cannot decide this case based on emotion or sympathy from these pictures.

Dr. Scordi-Bello says "it's possible" the cuts on O'Keefe's arm could be from broken plastic or glass. She also says these are not the classic injuries associated with a pedestrian-motor vehicle accident.

 

[arielilane]

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[arielilane]

@BienickWCVB

Defense attorney Elizabeth Little begins cross examining Scordi-Bello by asking about the different kinds of blunt force injuries. Little asks if such injuries could be claws. Scordi-Bello: "Claws? Possibly."


9:30 AM · Jun 21, 2024

 

[jepop]

Liz Little is stellar and great voice projection

 

[arielilane]

@SueNBCBoston

By a dog claw?-Claw? Yes.

Little listing all the injuries that aren’t there.Defense asks for a sidebar.

 

[arielilane]

@TedDanielnews

On cross, Dr, Scordi-Bello says yes when asked if it's possible JO's injuries could have been caused "by a bat, dumbbell, or a German shepherd’s claws."

She says "it's likely and unlikely at the same time" that JO was struck by a 7k vehicle at 24mph


9:33 AM · Jun 21, 2024

 

[kittythehare]

who is this screechy person asking questions.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1804145672678977898

 

[arielilane]

@SueNBCBoston

3 jurors stand.
The middle seat on the front row still empty.

Would you agree that his injuries are inconsistent with a being hit the way they say he was hit with that vehicle traveling at the speed?- I don’t know, I’m not an accident reconstructionist.

 

[Moonstrawbs]

@TedDanielnews

On cross, Dr, Scordi-Bello says yes when asked if it's possible JO's injuries could have been caused "by a bat, dumbbell, or a German shepherd’s claws."

She says "it's likely and unlikely at the same time" that JO was struck by a 7k vehicle at 24mph


9:33 AM · Jun 21, 2024

Wow this is useful, not

 

[jepop]

Wow this is useful, not

The ultimate non answer

 

[arielilane]

@JHall7news

DR Scordi-Bello is now being cross examined by defense attorney Elizabeth Little, who goes fursther into O'Keefe's lack of injuries below his neck. The ME agrees he did not have any significant injuries from the neck down - "no significant injuries, no."

Little asks if the ME would agree O'Keefe's injuries are inconsistent with being struck by a 7300 pound vehicle going 24mph? Scordi-Bello: "I would say it’s likely and unlikely at the same time."

On the arm abrasions being consistent or inconsistent with being hit by a car-- she says she doesn't know and is not qualified to answer.

 

[arielilane]

@BienickWCVB

Little is showing a photo of O'Keefe's face. Scordi-Bello says it shows him after he has been washed. Scordi-Bello says, "That is a possibility" when asked if his injuries are the result of being punched.


9:38 AM · Jun 21, 2024

 

[Moonstrawbs]

If JO was hit with a vehicle with the force the CW claim it would take for those head injuries, why does he have no lower injuries? I can't make any sense of that whatsoever. Surely there would be SOMETHING. jmo.

 

[arielilane]

@SueNBCBoston

Little asking about face injures.
Published a picture of John OKeefe’s face, after his body had been cleaned up.


I’m looking at the photo on the defense team’s computer screen.
Little asks if the injuries are consistent with being punched?-that is a possibility.

Many jurors are taking notes, appear to be paying attention.Little asking about the scratch on the back of OKeefe’s head.
Asks of it could be from being dragged.-yes


Asks if the irregular laceration could come from a baseball bat, falling backwards.
-it’s possible