Juror in Karen Read trial changed her mind during deliberations to vote not guilty, report says
'It was one big part that led me closer to, 'there is a lot of doubt here.'' Jimenez said. She did not specify what aspect of the case.
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On Wednesday,
The decision marked the end of a
her boyfriend and a Boston police officer, and left him to die in the snow on Jan. 29, 2022. Read's lawyers said police framed her.
The judge in the case, Beverly J. Cannone,
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Read's first criminal trial ended last year with a hung jury.
In the retrial, a jury of seven women and five men delivered their verdict after about three days of deliberations.
Jimenez, who was juror number 12, sat in the front row during the trial, to the right of Read and her defense team.
'I couldn't help but see her,' Jimenez said of Read. 'I think I had the best view in the house. She was right there. The defense was right there.'
Before the trial, Jimenez said she only heard her clients mention the Read case.
'I felt like if they didn't pick me, they'd be fools because I didn't know anything about this case,' Jimenez said about jury selection, according to the news outlet.
When asked if she 'formed any impressions' of Read, Jimenez said 'no.'
'Like I said, I knew nothing about her,' she said.
Jimenez took notes and filled one and a half notebooks during the trial, she said. She did not say whether she believed the defense's story of a cover-up.
During the trial, Read's lawyers alleged that after a night of drinking at two Canton bars, O'Keefe went into a home on Fairview Road, then owned by a fellow Boston police officer, where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by the family's German shepherd before his body was placed on the front lawn.
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Jimenez said that there was evidence that 'could have fit that scenario,' leading back to the 'doubt' around the allegations.
Still, she said, 'I'm not there to say whether the defense's story was right or wrong ... There could have been other circumstances that happened.'
Jimenez said she did not believe that Jennifer McCabe, who was at the afterparty and later joined Read in her search for O'Keefe, searched 'hos [sic] to die in the cold' on
as Read's lawyers maintained.
Data on McCabe's phone showed the search with a timestamp of 2:27 a.m. She testified that she searched on an old tab at 6:20 a.m. at Read's request, and expert witnesses for the prosecution corroborated that account.
Jimenez said she 'can't determine' whether lead investigator Michael Proctor planted or tampered with evidence. While she found Proctor's text messages that he sent coworkers about Read crude, they do not point to a cover-up, she said.
On Monday, Jimenez declined to comment further about the trial.
'I have said what I wanted to say,' Jimenez said by text message. To the family of O'Keefe, Jimenez said she is 'very sorry for their loss.'
She told the news station that she has learned more about the trial since leaving the courtroom but does not regret the verdict.
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'I'm very comfortable with how I came to the decision,' Jimenez said.
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