The judge allows the testimony of the ‘hos long’ search

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Karen Read lawyers said they hope to present a complete throat “to dismiss the case against her in the coming weeks.

By Abby Patkin

Updated on February 6, 2025 | 12:17 pm

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Karen LeeThe digital expert can testify that the witness Jennifer McCabe Google “Hos longing to die cold“Hours before Read boyfriend, John O’Kefe, was found unanswered in the snow, Judge Beverly Cannone ruled on Thursday.

Cannone denied the request of prosecutors to Block a certain testimony Richard Green, who argues that McCabe did the search in dispute at 2:27 AM of January 29, 2022. Prosecutors argued that Green’s claims “lack any probative support,” Two other experts He found data to support McCabe’s explanation that he made the search hours later and in the insistence of Read after the women found O’Kefe’s body.

“For me, it is rather a difference in opinions that the jury must be resolved,” Cannone said about competition’s time brands.

Reading, 44, is accused of deliberately supporting his SUV in O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, while he left him at a party in Canton after a bar jump night. His lawyers have set the guilt to other guests after the party, which suggests that Read was an “external strange” framed in a generalized cover -up of the law.

Her first judgment ended with a jury hanging last July, and she will be judged again in April.

Read lawyers say prosecutors sent them to a ‘wild goose persecution’

With less than two months for the beginning of his highly anticipated new new trial, Read and his team returned to the Court on Thursday to board several outstanding motions. Their lawyers seek that the State refunds an expert who traveled to the Canton Police Department to analyze surveillance images from the day O’Kefe died, just to know that the authorities had not preserved the original recordings.

Defensor lawyer Alan Jackson accused prosecutors of sending defense in a “wild goose persecution” in search of images that the camera system had overwhelmed within 30 days after O’Kefe’s death. In addition, he criticized the authorities for not delivering a complete copy of the images of the Canton Police Department, accusing them of retaining the exculpatory evidence.

“It seems that what we have obtained are the remains and the fragments of videos that the Commonwealth has decided … within its own time frame, to distribute in the course of months and years,” Jackson told the Court.

He said that these fragments include images that are missing a segment of 42 minutes of the time that the Read SUV got into the Sallyport garage of the station. In another remarkable incident, the jurors of the first Read test in the video of his SUV in the Sallyport that was inexplicably reflected or turned.

“This whole situation that surrounds this (digital video recorder) and the maintenance of the Commonwealth of that DVR and the footage in it is a complete fire of the garbage container, and Mrs. Read has to pay the fire extinguisher,” Jackson argued. “And that is not fair.”

But special prosecutor Hank Brennan said there was no motion to preserve the images. He said the defense had no right to send an expert to the station to download video, but prosecutors tried to accommodate the request anyway “in the spirit of transparency.”

“No one was deceived in this case,” added Brennan. “They have taken a professional courtesy and an effort to help and have distorted it in some kind of injustice.”

Prosecutors also responded that Read lawyers knew that the original archives would no longer be available in the camera system, given the death of O’Keefe almost Three years before. In fact, Brennan said he and Jackson discussed the possibility in early December.

“The lawyer Jackson expressed concern, understandably, being a defense lawyer, who almost three years later, the video may not be in the (camera system),” he said. “I had the same concern.”

Brennan also said that he offered to surrender or give access to images that had routinely copied from the camera system to a hard drive. Cannone ordered Read lawyers to consult with prosecutors about access to that image and took their reimbursement motion under advice.

Defense to present a ‘complete’ motion to rule out

Read lawyers also said they intend to comply with the request for prosecutors to Reciprocal discovery in two shock reconstructionists that were hired by the Department of Justice and FBI To look at O’Keefe and later testified by defense In the first Read test. Prosecutors had questioned whether the defense could comply with their discovery obligations for Daniel Wolfe and Andrew Renschler of Arcca Inc., given the “history and complexity” of Arcca’s participation in the case.

While letters Among the Norfolk County District Prosecutor and Federal Authorities confirmed that the United States Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into the case of Read, details on the scope and purpose of the federal probe Remain in secret.

Separately, prosecutors sought clarification about their access to unprocessed data from READ, specifically with respect to navigation and Google searches. Brennan argued that prosecutors have the legal authority to seek the content of the telephone under a 1822 search warrant, and Cannone agreed that the data were “directly within the search warrant.”

Jackson also said that the defense intends to present a “complete throat” motion to dismiss the case, and Cannone gave them until February 21 to do so. A audience on the motion will be held on March 4.

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Abby Patkin is a general assignment news reporter whose work touches public transport, crime, health and everything else.