Anybody following the Karen Read trial in Boston?

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05/29/2024 17:30

Subject: Re:Anybody following the Karen Read trial in Boston?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, fascinating. Care to share more about what shapes your opinion? Can you point to specific evidence?

Any good summaries?

Was nobody in and out of the house from the time he was allegedly hit?

What about all the deleted texts, disposed phones?

Scrapped up knuckles on the nephew?

The wounds on Okeefe’s arm?

What shapes my opinion:

Lifelong fascination with an following true crime.

Decades of experience in the criminal justice system, including much of that time in smaller cities and towns and thus extensive familiarity with the bumbling mistakes of small town cops in collection of evidence, etc.

Having handled over a thousand DUI cases - sadly - and hundreds of domestic violence cases as a criminal lawyer, and hundreds more as a DV advocate before that.

More than five decades as a keen observer of the human condition.

More to the specifics you asked:

There were no scraped knuckles on the nephew just days after O’Keefe died - social media pictures show him with undamaged hands in multiple photos. Defense presented a photo from a month later which depicts him with scraped knuckles and he explained how it happened in his testimony. The throwing of that young man under a bus is particularly sickening to me.

Scrapes on John’s arm are consistent with contact with glass, sharp plastic or metal as in from the underside of a vehicle. A broken cocktail glass and broken taillight pieces were found by his body.

I suspect that there was stuff on Brian Albert’s and Brian Higgins’s phones that they didn’t want the world to see - but I don’t believe those things had anything whatsoever to do with the death of John O’Keefe. It will be heartbreaking if their missteps get Karen Read acquitted for killing a decent man who was raising his orphaned niece and nephew.

Yes, people were in and out of the house after the time John O’Keefe was struck and laying on the edge of the lawn. I’m surprised by the people who express shock that nobody would have seen him laying there - anyone who is familiar with suburbs on the south coast, the limited lighting in most such neighborhoods, and the fact that on the night in question it was very dark because of snowy cloud cover - how often are you looking in the darkest corners at the edge of someone’s yard as you pull away on a dark snowy night with poor driving conditions? Never, I’m sure. People are thinking about that aspect as Monday morning quarterbacks.

Listen, I’ve met some really really really dumb cops in my time. Never have I met one dumb enough to dump a body on his own front lawn and cross his fingers and hope that a frantic still drunk girlfriend will show up at the crack of dawn hollering about how she must’ve hit him. It’s really a ludicrous defense theory if you think about it dispassionately.

The thing is, people are not dispassionate about cops - they never have been, but since the George Floyd reckoning, some people are ever more suspicious and inflamed. Massachusetts has had her fair share of cop corruption cases so many are quick to believe it. But the notion that all the people the defense is alleging are in on a conspiracy could actually be and keep it quiet- it really is laughable, or would be if this trial wasn’t putting the O’Keefe family and so many other innocent people through life changing hell.

I’m interested to see what the FBI report says. The FBI is not always right, to begin with. One of the biggest scandals and corruption cases in Massachusetts history involved the Boston FBI and their handling of Whitey Bulger, who they basically allowed to murder multiple people while he was an informant for them.

I’m curious to see their report on John and the allegations he wasn’t hit by a car. John didn’t have the classic impact injuries of being hit full on by a vehicle, but his injuries are consistent with having been knocked down and hitting his head hard on the ground which caused fracturing, black eyes, brain bleed leading to death with complication of hypothermia. His injuries apart from the arm are not dissimilar to how Bob Saget died from hitting his head likely on a table or the marble floor of his hotel bathroom, they lying down and slowly dying.

John’s arm injuries could have been from the broken cocktail glass. They are most definitely NOT in any way related to a dog - I have seen far too many dog attack/mauling photos in my career and those injuries were not remotely akin to dog bites or even scratches. Also there was no canine DNA, although the defense would have you believe that either the lab is in on the coverup or they just didn’t get the right samples.

The defense in this case is very skilled, she is getting her money’s worth. It’s also a slimy immoral defense that reminds me why I quit the criminal law business altogether.

I grew up in Mansfield and Norton and have family in the area who I visited often. In 58 years, I've never heard of "the south coast."

You must not be a very observant person, poster. You can throw a rock and hit the south coast from Mansfield and Norton. The south coast is directly adjacent to the south shore which includes Norfolk county which is trying this case against Karen Read.

Are you a Karen Read supporter also? It would explain a lot.