MA - Professor Karen Read, 43, charged with murdering police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe by hitting him with car, Canton, 14 Apr 2023 #24 Retrial

[Warwick7]

AJ starting strong right out the gate: ‘Did you check inside the house for a matching glass to the one found with John?’
Lt. Gallagher: ‘No, I did not.’

Annnnnnd did you catch when he says ‘absolutely not’ he makes it sound like it’s an absurd thing to do!

 

[Soulmagent]

Such a busy chap. Tweezing a root hair from John at the hospital to go plant on the bumper, collecting pieces of glass from the road in the snow to place on the bumper, and collecting pieces of plastic debris from somewhere to stick to John's sweater in the evidence room.

Barring the hair thing ,seems you got the whole jist of the stitch. I could speculate a whole bunch of where they get they hair from but I probably should not type out a few of those sideways suggestions.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

AJ points out that Canton PD was removed from the interview section of the investigation because their ‘best detective’ Kevin Albert is Brian’s brother.

AJ brought up the lost gun incident from July 2022. LOL. He didn’t say what it was, just asked if Gallagher was aware of ‘an incident.’
AJ: Do you stand by your statement that Kevin Albert was your best detective?
Lt. Gallagher: He was an excellent detective, yes.

AJ allows for crickets

 

[kuromiiiilove]

Lt. Gallagher says the Canton officer across the way (Tom Kelleher) has an Arlo camera, not a Ring camera. It is a motion activated camera that does not continuously record unless you have a subscription for continuous video recording.

 

[Leilei]

AJ starting strong right out the gate: ‘Did you check inside the house for a matching glass to the one found with John?’
Lt. Gallagher: ‘No, I did not.’

The question regarding special treatment for BA (because he was the BEST detective), Gallagher added to his answer, saying "Not by me".
My eyebrows raised way up.
IMO.

 

[Warwick7]

The Sixth Amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants to a fair trial; so common sense would ask why defense not playing fair... their client is a criminal defendant. jmo

Bbm

Read's lawyers said at the time that the crash experts were not hired by the defense. But before court was suspended Tuesday, Brennan told the court that he had obtained a bill from ARCCA to the defense for $23,925. He also said there are emails between Read's team and the ARCCA experts, with Wolfe telling the defense in one instance "if you don't want me to say this, that's fine."

"That's not trial by ambush, that's getting duped," Brennan said.

Judge in Karen Read case suddenly suspends hearing after new information causes "grave concern"

The judge in the Karen Read case suddenly suspended a hearing after she said she got information that caused her "grave concern."

www.cbsnews.com

2/18/2025

Don't forget how the Judge ruled. She already knew your information when she ruled.

"With dozens of text messages between experts at the ARCCA crash reconstruction firm and defense counsel unaccounted for, and missed discovery deadlines, Cannone said she understood the prosecution's complaints but ruled against them anyway."

"I understand completely the commonwealth's argument, the ambush that has been set upon here," she said. "However, a defendant's right to a fair trial is paramount to everything. So I'm going to allow the ARCCA witnesses to testify. I'm going to allow what I expect will be a very robust cross-examination"

Karen Read scores major win as judge allows crash reconstruction testimony

Judge Beverly Cannone will allow experts from ARCCA, a crash reconstruction firm, to testify at Karen Read's second trial in the murder of John O'Keefe.

www.foxnews.com

 

[kuromiiiilove]

Gallagher did not seek security footage from deputy chief Tom Kelleher.

 

[arielilane]

Timestamp 1:13:55

I'm not saying they're not qualified witnesses but it certainly shows some bias

I've turned over a lot less in this case than this

Another comment

Would be fair to say because you had a lot of nighttime visitability work your cases frequently involve pedestrians

Yes unfortunately there is a direct correlation between the time of day in pedestrian fatalities

statistically speaking most pedestrian fatalities occur during the evening and night hour


That would have been nice to have

So my specialty in the area of lighting and human factors results in a lot of my cases involving pedestrians


Pretty important stuff in this case…

And then he comments ….


If you don't want me to say this- that’s fine

That's fine

Shh, don't tell them

Have you qualified as an expert in court before

Yes I realized my testimony I said it 20 times when

many I've been qualified I miss interpreted the question my fault 11 trials seven depositions
Not sure if you want me to clear that up

I don't know if it was ever cleared up


And then a bill from ARCCA to the defense for $23,925

That's not tramble, that's not trial by ambush, that's getting duped

So I didn't know any of this, but I've tried a few cases
I've been around the federal court a little bit
I know how it works

Sometimes parties pick sides

creates an imbalance and unfairness and then it allows the ability of one side to use ghosts

they create Illusions and Shields and say something's there and something's happening a federal investigation and

this person and then this happens
I don't care if the ARCCA Witnesses testify at trial
I don't care about their opinions but I care that it's unfair

imbalanced and hidden and the Commonwealth like the defense is


entitled to Discovery so if they can produce the discovery I'd welcome ARCCA

 

[Soulmagent]

I really want to know if Higgin's was also at the baby shower.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

Gallagher did not seek security footage from Tom Kelleher.

AJ is pointing out that it would have been best practices to secure the footage, especially considering there may have been a wider array visible than the screenshots Gallagher saw from Deputy Chief Kelleher when he was asked to pick up packages.

Gallagher is acting like that’s an absurd thing to say.

 

[Angelwatch]

I have siblings and cousins who are police officers in the same area. Do you realize who collects evidences of crimes for Canton and other towns? The state police. But that morning the state police told Canton they would not be responding. The blood drops would not have been collectible later. It was now or never, so he used ingenuity to preserve evidence in a way that did not compromise its integrity.

Gallagher testified that evidence is logged, controlled, and tracked. It's done with a computer track. He described exactly what Jackson referred to as an "evidence log". Gallagher didn't have access to view it because it is secured. The state police took over the case that same day, which means Gallagher had no involvement beyond that.

Police officers follow the department's protocols. Every officer does not do the same thing. It's an organized approach. Gallagher did not take notes or write reports because it was not his function. The officers who were charged with writing reports did so.

I’m going to have to disagree on the now or never statement. Canton police could have sent an officer to the station to get appropriate evidence collection materials. It was only a mile away. They could have also radioed for someone at the station to arrive at the scene with collection materials. They could have had these materials on scene quickly.

 

[Soulmagent]

They are awfully involved for a dept that was removed .
If I was on the Jury I would be questioning this about by now.

 

[Leilei]

Lt. Gallagher says the Canton officer across the way (Tom Kelleher) has an Arlo camera, not a Ring camera. It is a motion activated camera that does not continuously record unless you have a subscription for continuous video recording.

All that talk about security cameras in the neighborhood but the Alberts left their door UNLOCKED.
Make it make sense.
IMO.

 

[arielilane]

Jackson is dragging trial out…his line of questioning is questionable. He is losing the jurors with the tediously slow and boring cross. jmo

 

[kuromiiiilove]

AJ is noting that Gallagher let MSP in to the sallyport to test the Lexus. Building up to the infamous sallyport video?

The Lexus was in Canton PD for three days. During which time every sworn officer in Canton PD had access to the sallyport. Wow.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

All that talk about security cameras in the neighborhood but the Alberts left their door UNLOCKED.
Make it make sense.
IMO.

I don’t remember who said it earlier, but someone suggested that the McAlberts claimed the door was unlocked because they couldn’t admit that Nicole and Brian were awake in 34 Fairview and had let Jen in. I think that’s a reasonable assumption, IMO.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

Wow. The Lexus was NOT PHOTOGRAPHED on 1/29/22 or 1/30/22.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

So several days with 40+ people having full access to the vehicle and 0 photos.

 

[Soulmagent]

Timestamp 1:13:55

I'm not saying they're not qualified witnesses but it certainly shows some bias

I've turned over a lot less in this case than this

Another comment

Would be fair to say because you had a lot of nighttime visitability work your cases frequently involve pedestrians

Yes unfortunately there is a direct correlation between the time of day in pedestrian fatalities

statistically speaking most pedestrian fatalities occur during the evening and night hour


That would have been nice to have

So my specialty in the area of lighting and human factors results in a lot of my cases involving pedestrians


Pretty important stuff in this case…

And then he comments ….


If you don't want me to say this- that’s fine

That's fine

Shh, don't tell them

Have you qualified as an expert in court before

Yes I realized my testimony I said it 20 times when

many I've been qualified I miss interpreted the question my fault 11 trials seven depositions
Not sure if you want me to clear that up

I don't know if it was ever cleared up


And then a bill from ARCCA to the defense for $23,925

That's not tramble, that's not trial by ambush, that's getting duped

So I didn't know any of this, but I've tried a few cases
I've been around the federal court a little bit
I know how it works

Sometimes parties pick sides

creates an imbalance and unfairness and then it allows the ability of one side to use ghosts

they create Illusions and Shields and say something's there and something's happening a federal investigation and

this person and then this happens
I don't care if the ARCCA Witnesses testify at trial
I don't care about their opinions but I care that it's unfair

imbalanced and hidden and the Commonwealth like the defense is


entitled to Discovery so if they can produce the discovery I'd welcome ARCCA

You do know it was only ruled it would be allowed ,I THINK on Wednesday last week? Last week for sure .
The CW did not want it in and the whole report was only done because the FBI requested it.

 

[kuromiiiilove]

Wow, Lt. Gallagher sure doesn’t understand much. It might be more expedient to ask him what he DOES understand…