KAREN READ’S MURDER CASE ENDED WITH MISTRIAL
A very famous trial in Massachusetts involving a lady named as Karen read a former Australian cricketer who has charged for killing her Boston police officer friend with her SUV and leaving him to die in snowbank. Her boyfriend named John O’Keefe,46, who died in Boston suburb of canton on JANUARY.20,2022.
Prosecutors say Karen Read, 44,dropped him after a house party drinking, struck him while making a three-point turn and drove away leaving him to die in the cold. READ has pleaded not guilty in second-degree murder and her defense team asked she has been framed.
John O’Keefe’s body was found in the front lawn of another officer. and the defense says that the homeowner’s relationship with local and state police trainted their investigation.
A STORMY RELATIONSHIP ENDED WITH DEATH
Prosecutors have put up several witnesses who recalled hearing Read say she hit O’Keefe as well as those who say the couple had a stormy relationship and that O’Keefe was trying to end it at the time of his death. On Wednesday, jurors heard from two sisters who vacationed in Aruba with Read and O’Keefe a few weeks before his death.
They testified that the couple fought because Read falsely accused O’Keefe of kissing Marietta Sullivan, the younger sister. Marietta Sullivan said Read swore at her after seeing her talking to O’Keefe, and Laura Sullivan said O’Keefe seemed “distant” during the trip.
READ’S DEFENSE
READ’S lawyers asked that O’Keefe was beaten inside of a house by a family dog and then left outside. They have portrayed the investigation as shoddy and undermined by the close relationship investigators had with the police and other law enforcement agents at the house party.
The defense, which has been allowed to present what is called third-party culprit evidence, argues that investigators focused on Read because she was a “convenient outsider” who saved them from having to consider other suspects.
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Those they’ve implicated so far include Brian Albert, who owned the home where O’Keefe died; his nephew, Colin Albert; and Brian Higgins, a federal agent who was with the group drinking that night.
This week, the defense also sought to implicate Brian Albert’s sister-in-law, Jennifer McCabe, who was at his home that night and was with Read when O’Keefe’s body was discovered the next morning.
Read’s attorney pressed McCabe on why she told grand jurors a dozen times that Read asked, “Did I hit him?” or “Could I have hit him?” but now says she heard Read declare “I hit him,” three times. “The truth of the matter is you’ve manufactured this new story for this jury because you think it helps you out,” Jackson said. “Absolutely not,” McCabe replied.
McCabe has said Read also asked her to Google how long it takes for someone to die of hypothermia moments after the body was discovered. But on Wednesday jurors saw cellphone data that suggested McCabe also did a similar search four hours earlier and later deleted it.
“I did not delete that search. I never made that search,” McCabe said. “I never would have left John O’Keefe out in the cold to die because he was my friend that I loved.”
O’Keefe’s mother cried after the mistrial was declared, while Read hugged her father and other relatives.
The Norfolk County district attorney’s office said in a statement: “First, we thank the O’Keefe family for their commitment and dedication to this long process. They maintained sight of the true core of this case — to find justice for John O’Keefe. The Commonwealth intends to re-try the case.”
Defense attorney Alan Jackson said he and others representing Read will keep fighting.
“They failed. They failed miserably, and they’ll continue to fail. No matter how long it takes, no matter how long they keep trying, we will not stop fighting,” he told reporters outside court.
From this story of a stormy relationship we can easily see that a relationship is not safe if there are some huge misunderstandings or having conflicts that make a relationship stormy and toxic that resulted like this story ended with a murder and now the family of John O’KEEFE is going through a very tough time and they had lost their child and still not not get justice because of a legal mistake has been done. We all shall pray for John and for his family that he will get justice.
FAQ
Q. Are they going to retry Karen Read?
A. Prosecutors say they intend to retry the case in which the defense asserted that Read had been framed by police.
Q. What happened to Karen Read?
A. She was accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe by striking him with her SUV and leaving him in a snowstorm.
Q. What happens with the mistrial?
A. A mistrial resulting from a hung jury could lead to a new trial if prosecutors chose to bring the case forward again.
Q. What happens after a mistrial in MA?
A. After a mistrial, there are usually three options: The prosecution could drop the charges, they could retry the case, or the defendant could enter a plea deal.