The attorneys for Karen Read, the Mansfield girl accused of mowing down her boyfriend exterior a home in Canton final January, are gearing up for one more proof discovery battle forward of Friday’s standing convention listening to.
Read is charged with second-degree homicide within the demise of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, in addition to expenses of manslaughter whereas drunk and leaving the scene of non-public damage and demise. Prosecutors say she backed into him and ran him over after dropping him off at 34 Fairview Road in Canton within the early hours of Jan. 29, 2023.
It started on the primary of the month after they filed a movement for GPS information for the snowplow answerable for eradicating snow from in entrance of the home — the place O’Keefe’s physique was discovered simply after 6 a.m.that morning. The request got here with a protection interview of the plow driver, who mentioned he didn’t see a physique within the yard at round 2:30 a.m. when he allegedly drove previous the home.
And then this week, attorneys filed a request for data relating to a Google Nest safety digicam on the Fairview Road house put in previous to the date of demise. It requests utilization information, “any audio or video” from between midnight and 6:30 a.m. the morning of the demise and “any records, logs, or other information … (regarding) deletion of data” recorded across the similar time.
The movement particularly names then-homeowner Brian Albert, a fellow BPD cop who protection attorneys have fingered as really culpable in O’Keefe’s demise.
“The notion that longtime Boston Police Officer Brian Albert has no security cameras installed at the residence where he lives with his wife and children, is hard to believe,” protection legal professional Alan Jackson wrote in an affidavit supporting the movement. “Clearly, security camera footage … would establish whether Mr. O’Keefe entered the Albert residence in the early morning of January 29, 2022, or was struck by Ms. Read’s vehicle.”
Jackson says that “not a single police report” discusses any safety cameras on the house, nor had “law enforcement ever asked Brian Albert, Nicole Albert, or any other witness whether they ever observed video surveillance or security cameras installed at the Albert Residence.”
Apparently, Brian Albert testified to the grand jury that he had obtained a surveillance system — “it’s not a Ring but something along those lines. It might be a Nest or something like that” — as a Christmas current from his spouse however had not but put in it by the evening in query.
Jackson wrote that the Read protection “cannot effectively prepare for trial without these records and the failure to obtain this information may unreasonably delay trial” and that Google won’t return the data with out a courtroom order.
The movement will possible be argued earlier than Judge Beverly J. Cannone on the listening to on Friday.
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