The protection legal professional for the Mansfield lady accused of killing her boyfriend, a 16-year officer with the Boston Police Department, is making strikes for extra data.
“When it was in Stoughton District Court, there was a fight on almost every court date when we wanted information and the government was dragging its feet,” legal professional David Yannetti mentioned outdoors the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham Friday afternoon.
“But I am pleased to announce that we are starting to get that information,” he added with a large stack of discovery papers and even a CD seen underneath his arm.
Karen Read, 42, is accused of backing her Lexus SUV into her boyfriend of two years, Officer John O’Keefe, 46, simply as a blizzard was winding up within the first hour of Jan. 29. Police discovered his physique — together with Read apparently attempting to revive him — within the snow at round 6 a.m. within the entrance yard of a Fairview Road dwelling in Canton the couple had been invited to following an evening out at two space bars with pals.
This first pretrial convention for the reason that case moved from district courtroom to the superior courtroom — and with it a grand jury indictment alleging homicide — lasted all of 4 minutes.
But it introduced with it 4 new protection discovery motions: to obtain the supplies included within the commonwealth’s discovery course of thus far, a request for and preservation of geofence information held by Google, authorization to examine the taillight and its housing in Read’s Lexus SUV that prosecutors say backed into O’Keefe and killed him, and authorization to examine O’Keefe’s clothes from that night time.
Yannetti mentioned he requested entry to the taillight and its housing as a result of it unavailable to him and an professional he employed to evaluation it earlier, regardless of the taillight space being what had allegedly struck and killed O’Keefe.
The geofence information — which might present what smartphones had been within the space on the time — will not be one thing the protection can retrieve by itself by federal statute. He mentioned that prosecutors instructed him they’re starting the method to retrieve that information from Google.
The courtroom was filled with family and friends of Read, who she hugged and smiled with following the listening to. Courtrooms have been packed for the reason that very starting of the case, usually with law enforcement officials.
“O’Keefe was a good cop and a good man,” Yannetti mentioned. “That’s why my client was with him.”
Boston Herald file photograph
Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe died throughout this previous weekend’s storm. (BDNews.com photograph.)
BRAINTREE MA. – FEBRUARY 6: Boston Police officers lineup to pay their respect to fellow Officer John O’Keefe throughout his wake on February 6, 2022 in Braintree, MA. O’Keefe was killed throughout a snowstorm when officers consider his girlfriend backed into him after dropping him off at a good friend’s home. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BRAINTREE MA. – FEBRUARY 6: Police officers from surrounding cities be a part of Boston Police as they lineup within the chilly to pay their respect to fellow Officer John O’Keefe throughout his wake on February 6, 2022 in Braintree, MA. O’Keefe was killed throughout a snowstorm when officers consider his girlfriend backed into him after dropping him off at a good friend’s home. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BRAINTREE MA. – FEBRUARY 6: Boston Police officers lineup to pay their respect to fellow Officer John O’Keefe throughout his wake on February 6, 2022 in Braintree, MA. O’Keefe was killed throughout a snowstorm when officers consider his girlfriend backed into him after dropping him off at a good friend’s home. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
STOUGHTON MA. – FEBRUARY 2: Karen Read leaves Stoughton District Court after she was arraigned on expenses associated within the loss of life of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe on February 2, 2022 in Stoughton, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
STOUGHTON MA. – FEBRUARY 2: The dad and mom, brother and sister-in-law of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe react as Karen Read is arraigned in Stoughton District Court on expenses associated within the loss of life of O’Keefe on February 2, 2022 in Stoughton, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
STOUGHTON MA. – FEBRUARY 2: The dad and mom and brother of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe react as Karen Read is arraigned in Stoughton District Court on expenses associated within the loss of life of O’Keefe on February 2, 2022 in Stoughton, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
Courtesy / David Yannetti, Read’s legal professional
Karen Read, proper, was indicted Thursday on second-degree homicide, motorcar manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting loss of life within the Jan. 29 loss of life of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, a 16-year member of the Boston police. (Courtesy David Yannetti, Read’s legal professional)
BRAINTREE, MA.- Boston Police officers and members of the family carry the casket of Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, III out of St. Francis of Assisi Church following his funeral service on February 7, 2022 in Braintree, MA. (Photo by Amanda Sabga/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
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