The twisting and sophisticated homicide case towards Karen Read took one more sudden flip when the defendant, her voice quivering and tears in her eyes, spoke instantly for herself on the steps outdoors Norfolk Superior Court.
“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 marshaled every resource to get to the truth,” Read mentioned, her attorneys David Yannetti and Alan Jackson at her facet and her household behind her. “It just feels like no one else wants it.”
When requested by a reporter on the steps, “And Karen, just to be clear, you didn’t do it?”
“We know who did it,” she mentioned. “We know. And we know who spearheaded this coverup. You all know.”
“I tried to save his life,” she mentioned, as her supporters on the step clapped and exclaimed. “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.”
At this level, a person on the road, who has sat on the prosecutor’s facet of the aisle and on Wednesday sported a “Justice for JJ” pin, requested, “Why’d you admit to it?”
“She didn’t admit to it. She didn’t admit to anything close to that,” protection legal professional Jackson shot again. “She asked a question, which is very different.”
The query that spurred the person to talk and that Jackson referred to is the one mentioned by Assistant Defense Attorney Adam Lally, the prosecutor for the case, at Read’s preliminary look simply days after her boyfriend of two years, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, was found lifeless on the entrance garden of 34 Fairview St. in Canton on 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 supply heat within the frigid winter air.
The query was, “Did I hit him?” The query, as Lally intoned at that preliminary look, went on just a few extra occasions, questioning if she had by some means hit him together with her SUV, leaving him to die within the chilly and snow.
That’s the Commonwealth’s idea of the case. Read is charged with second-degree homicide.
The protection has a distinct idea, and Wednesday’s listening to was held for Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone to rule on whether or not there could be an evidentiary listening to compelling reside testimony from two third-party witnesses, Boston Police Officer Brian Albert, who owned the house the place O’Keefe died, and Jennfier McCabe, Albert’s sister-in-law and O’Keefe’s longtime pal who reportedly invited the couple there the night earlier than O’Keefe’s physique was found.
“There’s nothing fanciful about any of the facts that we submitted and have supported with affidavits and evidence,” Jackson mentioned through the listening to. “The Commonwealth’s theory, quite to the converse, is supported by nearly nothing, nothing.”
Following arguments by Yannetti, Lally, and protection attorneys for Albert and McCabe — respectively Gregory Henning and Kevin Reddington — Cannone dominated that “there will be no evidentiary hearing” and granted Henning and Reddington’s motions to quash testimony from their purchasers.
This is a growing story.
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