The Karen Read homicide trial has gained nationwide consideration, and it confirmed in a full-blown rally in assist of the defendant held on the Norfolk Superior Court steps forward of a 2 p.m. motions listening to Tuesday afternoon.
Read is accused of working over her boyfriend of two years, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, within the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022.
At the highest of a stack of protection motions — which remained impounded forward of the listening to, with the clerk citing private data contained inside them that the choose would wish to clear earlier than public consumption — was a movement to have Judge Beverly Cannone recuse herself from the case.
Cannone denied the movement after a short recess to evaluate the matter after arguments.
“Your honor, there has been an undeniable erosion of the public’s confidence” within the courtroom’s skill to impartially oversee this case, protection legal professional Alan Jackson stated throughout the listening to.
“It is not an indictment of this court’s character, and we do not aver that at all,” he continued, including that Cannone’s resolution to recuse herself ought to come from the aspect of “an unwavering commitment to justice, the rule of law.”
The argument that Cannone ought to recuse herself stems from proof the protection has discovered that purportedly exhibits that Sean McCabe apparently is aware of or has information of the non-public lifetime of Cannone, which Jackson stated might result in the notion of partiality on her half.
Sean McCabe is purportedly the brother-in-law of Jennifer McCabe, who the protection has pointed to as being somebody who needs to be thought of “at least be a suspect” within the dying of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, Read’s boyfriend of two years who prosecutors say she ran over along with her automotive in late January of final 12 months.
Prosecutor Adam Lally stated that he has neither a private or authorized view that the courtroom will not be neutral
O’Keefe’s physique was found on the entrance garden of 34 Fairview St. in Canton the morning of Jan. 29, 2022. First responders discovered Read making an attempt to resuscitate O’Keefe and utilizing her physique to cowl his in an try to offer heat within the frigid winter air.
“I tried to save his life,” Read herself stated from the courthouse steps following a listening to on May 24. “I tried to save his life at six in the morning. I was covered in his blood. I was the only one trying to save his life.”
She additionally had one thing else to say, which is the keystone within the protection’s case: “It feels we’re the only ones fighting for the truth of what happened to John O’Keefe, and me, and my family, and my attorneys, and my team have marshalled every resource to get to the truth.”
The protection argues that the Canton house owner, fellow Boston Police Officer Brian Albert, and Jennifer McCabe, two individuals who have been inside the house for a get-together Read and O’Keefe had deliberate to attend, are culpable in O’Keefe’s dying.
Cannone summarized the protection movement as having 4 allegations: That she takes too lengthy to make selections on discovery motions, that she has been prejudicial within the prosecution’s favor in her motions selections, that there’s a public notion of partiality and that she one way or the other is aware of Sean McCabe and that makes her neutral.
Cannone stated the claims will not be true and denied the protection’s movement on all 4 factors. She additionally stated she wished to clarify that she doesn’t consider that “unsubstantiated rumors” unfold on-line shouldn’t be grounds for eradicating a choose from a case.
Lally additionally requested that protection counsel be certain to what he known as skilled conduct, as he stated the protection counsel has been utilizing the media “as propagandists for the defense version of the case.”
Defense legal professional David Yannetti argued passionately in opposition to the “gag order.”
Cannone stated she’s going to weigh the movement and make a ruling on the subsequent listening to date.
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