Karen Read’s authorized protection staff introduced they’d scored a win on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court with a ruling uncovering information they are saying may exonerate their consumer.
Read, of Mansfield, is accused of murdering her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, within the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022, following an evening of consuming with acquaintances at two Canton bars.
The prosecution says the connection was strained and she or he killed her boyfriend together with her automobile in entrance of 34 Fairview Road in Canton, the scene of a deliberate get-together with others who prosecutors say by no means noticed both member of the couple stroll inside.
Read’s protection says she dropped O’Keefe off there, the then-home of fellow Boston cop Brian Albert, and went residence. They finger Albert and his sister-in-law Jennifer McCabe as those really culpable in O’Keefe’s loss of life. Both Albert and McCabe have secured their very own attorneys within the case.
On Wednesday, the SJC ordered the Norfolk Superior Court to challenge the protection’s requested summons for McCabe’s cellular phone information for the night time that O’Keefe died, however not for the complete multi-day interval requested by the protection.
The ruling largely upholds trial court docket Judge Beverly J. Cannone’s ruling denying the information, however disagreed in her discovering that the defendant had not met the authorized commonplace for subpoenaing information associated to McCabe’s purported seek for the time period “ho(w) long to die in cold” hours earlier than O’Keefe’s physique was discovered. That request, the ruling states, “is relevant and sought in good faith. That said, this does not necessitate the production of records to the extent sought by the defendant.”
“We are extremely pleased that the Supreme Judicial Court agreed with us that Jennifer McCabe’s phone usage records from an independent source during the time surrounding John’s death is relevant and material to this case,” Read protection legal professional Alan Jackson mentioned in an announcement.
McCabe’s legal professional, Kevin Reddington, sees the SJC order as upholding Cannone’s choice that a lot of the information requested have been overly broad and what was allowed was already on the file.
“Clearly this is a win for Jen McCabe and certainly Brian Albert,” Reddington advised the Herald.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”