The choose within the case of accused assassin Karen Read says that she’s not pushing again the trial date of March 12 whilst either side ask for an extension because of the feds indicating they’ll make some kind of disclosure within the case.
“I think it’s premature at this time to continue the trial date so I’m not going to do that,” Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone mentioned in a 20 minute listening to Thursday afternoon that made the Read case, which has been surrounded by circuslike consideration and antics, really feel comparatively regular.
The request for an extension filed in a joint movement is basically due to the involvement of federal prosecutors, who’ve had an almost spectral presence not too long ago within the case and whose intentions weren’t made any clearer Thursday afternoon.
Read protection legal professional David Yannetti mentioned that each his staff and prosecutors obtained an electronic mail from the U.S. Attorney’s workplace for the District of Massachusetts late Wednesday night stating that the workplace would make some kind of disclosure throughout the coming days relating to the case.
That disclosure, whose contours are unknown, he mentioned, is topic first to a protecting order that each the Norfolk District Attorney’s workplace and the protection staff should log out on that limits how they’ll use that info. Following an settlement to such a protecting order, the federal prosecutors would then want a federal choose to log out on the contents of the disclosure.
Yannetti mentioned his staff is ok with the protecting order as written whereas prosecutor Adam Lally mentioned he had some issues with the wording however that he believes these issues could be simply resolved and he can log out on the amended model.
The remainder of the listening to handled the behind-the-scenes efforts relating to proof discovery.
Cannone set the subsequent listening to date for Feb. 26 at 2 p.m.
Read was indicted on expenses together with second-degree homicide within the demise of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, on the finish of January 2022. Prosecutors say Read, 43, of Mansfield, struck O’Keefe along with her Lexus SUV whereas purportedly dropping him off at an after celebration on the then-home of fellow Boston cop Brian Albert, 34, in Canton.
Her protection attorneys have argued a third-party culpability protection.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”