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

[arielilane]

@BienickWCVB

#KarenRead Yannetti says Read was "panicked" and "racking her brain" about what happened to O'Keefe. Says Read wondered out loud if she had hit him. "Karen didn't know then what you will learn during this trial," he says.


11:30 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

@TedDanielnews

Yannetti says at 2:27 Jennifer McCabe typed "Hos long to die in cold" hours before she called 911 to report JO's body had just been found


11:32 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

@TedDanielnews

In March, 25Investigates reported Proctor was facing an IA investigation. MSP nor Proctors attorney never explained why. There was speculation it was related to his texts


11:25 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

@BienickWCVB

#KarenRead Yannetti says prosecutors will try to dispute timing of the Google search and claim it was done only after O'Keefe's body was found.


11:33 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

@JHall7news

Yannetti: Read's tail light was actually broken several hours after she dropped O'Keefe at a party. When O'Keefe wasn't home at 4:30 am...she woke up in a panic, backed her car out of O'Keefe's driveway and struck his car at about 5 am.


11:29 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

Yannetti says six people at the after-hours party left the house via the front door and never saw O'Keefe's body in the snow. Neither did snowplow driver, says Yannetti.


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#KarenRead "It's not that Proctor couldn't find the truth. It's that he wouldn't," says Yannetti.


11:36 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

@BienickWCVB

#KarenRead "You will shocked" by what snowplow driver did and didn't see that night, says Yannetti.


11:38 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

Yannetti says snowplow driver didn't see O'Keefe's body on the lawn about two hours after Read allegedly hit him and left him there. But says snowplow driver did see a Ford Edge parked in that area later that night.


"You'll learn that some other curious things were going on" that night, says Yannetti.

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[arielilane]

@BienickWCVB

#KarenRead Yannetti says Brian Albert and Brian Higgins were on the phone for 22 seconds. A short time later, Yannetti says, is when Jennifer McCabe did Google search.


11:42 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

"When John O'Keefe was found, he did not looked like he'd been hit by a car. He looked like he'd been beaten up," says Yannetti.

Yannetti says injuries on O'Keefe's arm do not look like they were caused by a car collision but rather by bites and scratches from an animal. Yannetti says Albert family had a German Shepherd named Chloe, who was not good around strangers.

Yannetti says a short time after O'Keefe's death, the Albert family sent dog Chloe to another home.

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[arielilane]

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#KarenRead Yannetti says Read "considered exploring her options" but that her relationship with ATF agent Higgins "never went anywhere."


11:47 AM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[arielilane]

Yannetti says video from the Waterfall bar will show how O'Keefe and Read were getting along.

Someone, not Karen Read, ambushed O'Keefe, says Yannetti. Says that someone might not have intended to kill him.

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[arielilane]

Yannetti says jurors' job is not to solve the case, but to determine if prosecution has met its obligation to prove its case to a reasonable doubt.

Opening statements have concluded. Prosecution asks for a sidebar with judge.

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[arielilane]

bbm

Defense attorney David Yannetti rises to give his opening statement to jury.


"Karen Read was framed," Yannetti says. Her car did not strike O'Keefe and that means someone else killed him.


Yannetti says a faulty investigation lead to Read sitting here today. "You'll question why investigators had such tunnel vision," he says. Describes Albert family as "well known, well connected.”


Brian Albert, also a Boston police officer, did nothing to help O'Keefe and never came out after his body was found.


Yannetti says Canton police were "conflicted out" of investigating O'Keefe's death because Brian Albert's brother is a Canton police officer. Case was turned over to Mass State Police.


The lead MSP investigator on the case was Michael Proctor. Yannetti says Proctor has ties to Albert family. "Right from the jump, Michael Proctor predetermined the outcome of this case," says Yannetti.


Yannetti says "Karen Read was a convenient outsider. She was definitely not from Canton.”


Yannetti says Proctor texted his friends and told them he hoped Karen Read would kill herself. Says Proctor improperly seized Read's cell phone.


Yannetti says Proctor told friends he was searching Read's phone for "nude photos" of her and was "disappointed" he didn't find any.


Yannetti says Proctor told friends that owner of Fairview Road would "not catch a lot of grief" for body being found at his home because he was also a Boston police officer.

Yannetti says Proctor lied under oath about the time he had Read's vehicle towed from her parents' home. Says Proctor was alone with vehicle.


Yannetti says four officers didn't initially find taillight pieces and found them only later. Yannetti suggests Proctor had taillight pieces placed in the yard.


There is no competent evidence that Karen Read's taillight shattered at the scene of O'Keefe's death, Yannetti says.


Yannetti says Read woke up at 4am and left to search for him. Yannetti says as she was backing out of her driveway, she hit parked car and that's when taillight was cracked.

Yannetti says Read was "panicked" and "racking her brain" about what happened to O'Keefe. Says Read wondered out loud if she had hit him. "Karen didn't know then what you will learn during this trial," he says.

Yannetti says prosecutors will try to dispute timing of the Google search and claim it was done only after O'Keefe's body was found.


Yannetti says six people at the after-hours party left the house via the front door and never saw O'Keefe's body in the snow. Neither did snowplow driver, says Yannetti.


"It's not that Proctor couldn't find the truth. It's that he wouldn't," says Yannetti.


"You will shocked" by what snowplow driver did and didn't see that night, says Yannetti.


Yannetti says snowplow driver didn't see O'Keefe's body on the lawn about two hours after Read allegedly hit him and left him there. But says snowplow driver did see a Ford Edge parked in that area later that night.


"You'll learn that some other curious things were going on" that night, says Yannetti.


Yannetti says Brian Albert and Brian Higgins were on the phone for 22 seconds. A short time later, Yannetti says, is when Jennifer McCabe did Google search.


"When John O'Keefe was found, he did not looked like he'd been hit by a car. He looked like he'd been beaten up," says Yannetti.


Yannetti says injuries on O'Keefe's arm do not look like they were caused by a car collision but rather by bites and scratches from an animal. Yannetti says Albert family had a German Shepherd named Chloe, who was not good around strangers.


Yannetti says a short time after O'Keefe's death, the Albert family sent dog Chloe to another home.


Yannetti says Read "considered exploring her options" but that her relationship with ATF agent Higgins "never went anywhere."


Yannetti says video from the Waterfall bar will show how O'Keefe and Read were getting along.

Someone, not Karen Read, ambushed O'Keefe, says Yannetti. Says that someone might not have intended to kill him.


Yannetti says jurors' job is not to solve the case, but to determine if prosecution has met its obligation to prove its case to a reasonable doubt.

Opening statements have concluded.

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[housewife]

"In a February court filing, however, prosecutors said there was no canine DNA found on swabs taken from O’Keefe’s clothing in areas near his injuries."

I want to see another independent test of his clothing.

 

[louvillian08]

I know we're all so tired about hearing about the darn Google search but I can't wait to hear that testimony. BOTH sides have dug their heels in so much about something that could have easily been explained away despite which time is correct.

 

[bobbymkii]

I get a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot of this fan during this trial!

 

[arielilane]

Well, I am about 5 minutes behind, watching on 1.25 speed. But the defense has won the opening statement. I know the opening is not evidence. Just speaking from a presentation and conviction standpoint. The prosecutor is getting hammered.

Yes, about opening statements are basically a presentation to show what evidence you have. Though the burden of proof does not fall on the defense, the state must present the evidence. Let’s see who delivers.
There’s not supposed to be any arguing during opening, and maybe it’s me, but I heard more anger in Yannetti's voice than passion. moo

 

[arielilane]

@BienickWCVB

#KarenRead Prosecution calls Paul O'Keefe as its first witness. He chokes up before saying John O'Keefe's was his brother.


12:14 PM · Apr 29, 2024

 

[ch_13]

Yannetti's opening was much superior to Lally's, IMO.

And I think we even got some new revelations which haven't been discussed before: Proctor was texting with his high school pals on the day of KO's death giving them details of the case, telling them that he wouldn't investigate the homeowners and saying that he was searching KR's phone for nudes. He also said that KR should kill herself.