prosecution, defense crashing on the search for the reading phone

Lawyers for Karen Lee They oppose the efforts of the prosecutors to obtain data from their phone related to vehicular navigation and their searches on Google, the government wrote in a judicial presentation on Wednesday.

In a brief motion in the Superior Court of Norfolk, Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan He wrote that the Government has legal authority under a 2022 order to find the content of the READ phone, including their forensic data.

Since there were privileged communications with their lawyers on the device, the state attorney general’s office was used to review the content of the telephone and “taxes” any message exchanged with its legal team, Brennan wrote.

With that completed, prosecutors now intend to “obtain unprocessed data in relation to navigation information and Google searches” of his phone, said Brennan.

But the Legal Read team is “objtaining the Commonwealth application for unprocessed data within the scope of the order of February 2, 2022,” said Brennan.

With the new Read trial that will begin in April, Brennan said that prosecutors are asking the court to clarify what they can access on the Read phone “to avoid any unnecessary delay in the review of the evidence.

He said that prosecutors have “good faith and a reasonable belief” that Google’s navigation and data are authorized by the order.

Read44 years, declared himself innocent of second degree murder positions, involuntary homicide while operating under influence, and leaving the scene of personal injury that resulted in death.

Prosecutors claim that she supported her SUV Lexus in a drunk anger on her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Kefeearly January 29. 2022, after leaving him out of a Canton residence after a bar jump night.

His lawyers say he was framed and? O’Keefe He entered the residence, owned at that time by a Boston policemate, where he was fatally beaten in the basement before his body was planted in the front garden.

Read The first trial ended with a jury hanging in July. She remains free on bail.

Separately, the State Supreme Judicial Court is weighing a defense application To drop the murder and leave the scene count, on the grounds that indicated multiple jurors, either directly or through intermediaries, that the jury unanimously agreed to acquit by these charges, remaining divided only into involuntary homicide.

It is not clear when the SJC will rule.

Read too He faces a lawsuit for unfair death Brought by O’Kefe’s family in the Superior Court of Plymouth.

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