Judge Beverly Cannone is expected to rule on a key piece of video evidence when the murder trial of Karen Read resumes Monday morning.
The video in question comes from a surveillance camera in John O’Keefe’s driveway. It shows Read’s black Lexus SUV backing out of the driveway of her boyfriend, a Boston police officer, on January 29, 2022.
Read’s lawyers have suggested that Read reversed into the back of O’Keefe’s car, damaging her taillight. Trooper Joseph Paul, a crash reconstruction expert with the Massachusetts State Police, said Friday that Read would have had to go faster to cause damage.
Paul returns to the stand on Monday.
Good morning from the 26th day of testimony in Commonwealth vs. Read. I hope all my fellow fathers had a good day yesterday. We are on our way.
-Trooper Joseph Paul, MSP accident reconstruction expert is expected back on the stand this morning.
-Judge still has to decide what he can…
— Ted Daniel (@TedDanielnieuws) June 17, 2024
LIVE PLAY-BY-PLAY FROM THE COURT:
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Alan Jackson shows Trooper Paul a piece of debris near the fire hydrant that was 30 feet from JO’s body and asks if the location of that piece changes what Paul believed was the point of impact.
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Paul previously testified that the impact area was determined in part by the furthest piece of debris found from the body.
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Trooper Paul tried to read from his report, but the judge told him not to. He then gave the following explanation for John O’Keefe’s death: ‘The driver is said to have been Karen Read, the pedestrian John O’Keefe… The vehicle was traveling at up to 39 km/h and the right rear of the Lexus struck the pedestrian John O’Keefe. “Keeef.”
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Cannone told the court Friday that she had to review the footage from the weekend before deciding whether or not Trooper Paul could give that opinion to the jury.
Prosecutors have alleged that Read’s SUV was damaged after she backed over O’Keefe and left him for dead in the snow outside Brian Albert’s Canton Home at 34 Fairview Road after a night of drinking.
The defense hopes to prove that O’Keefe was killed by someone in Albert’s home and then thrown into the snow.
Tess Chart, a forensic DNA analyst at Bode Technology, and her colleague Nicholas Bradford, testified last week that O’Keefe’s DNA was found on taillight pieces found outside 34 Fairview Avenue in Canton that matched Read’s SUV.
Multiple law enforcement officers also testified that they found pieces of broken taillights on the lawn of 34 Fairview Road after the snow melted.
Read has pleaded not guilty to charges including second-degree murder in O’Keefe’s death.
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