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Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Yahoo
Karen Read Trial resumes Monday morning. Will Chloe the German Shepherd take center stage?
The hotly contested Massachusetts trial of Karen Read, who is charged with killing her Boston cop boyfriend John O'Keefe during a drunken night in 2022, will resume Monday morning with decidedly less emotion than the first two weeks of the trial. After a battering three days on the stand during which Jen McCabe, who under cross-examination by Los Angeles defense attorney Alan Jackson, admitted that she misled FBI agents who showed up at her Canton home on Boston's South Shore, by lying about who she was and withholding details about who she called after they had identified themselves. the trial is slated to resume with expert witnesses connected to the evidence. McCabe's testimony led Read, 45, a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, to leave the courtroom on Friday and tell reporters that her former friend, who she had called on the morning of O'Keefe's death when he didn't come home, was the "quarterback" in the cover-up that she maintains led to her arrest. McCabe's sister Nicole and brother-in-law, O'Keefe's fellow Boston cop Brian Albert, owned the house where O'Keefe's body was found, and McCabe said she didn't wake the couple for also initially failed to tell the FBI that she called Albert, Peggy O'Keefe, the slain officer's mother, her friend Kerry Roberts, who was also with McCabe and Read when O'Keefe was found, a witness advocate in the Norfolk County District Attorney's office - who is trying the case - and her husband in the span of ten minutes after the agents showed up at her home. Lying to the FBI carries a five-year prison sentence. McCabe's insistence that Read had repeatedly said "I hit him, I hit him, I hit him," after the body of O'Keefe was found covered in snow during on Jan. 29, 2022, was inconsistent with previous statements the self-described "normal mom" had made in the aftermath of the Boston Police Officer's death. Read herself remarked in an interview with Dateline NBC "Could I have hit him?," a clip of which was played for the jurors by special prosecutor Hank Brennan, a Boston defense attorney hired by the Norfolk County D.A. specifically to try the Read case. Brennan's client list included notorious Boston mobster and longtime FBI informant James "Whitey" Bulger, who was captured at a Santa Monica hideout after more than a decade on the lam. Read, O'Keefe and others had gone to the Albert's home after a night of drinking at two bars in Canton. Read said she dropped him off, and her lawyers insist that O'Keefe died somewhere "warm" and was brought outside to die in the cold. Among the controversial evidence is a Google search made by McCabe "hos long to die in the cold," which a defense expert said was made at 2:27 am and prosecutors maintain was made at Read's insistence in the chaotic aftermath of O'Keefe's body being found. McCabe also testified about the Albert family's German Shepherd, Chloe, who was rehomed after O'Keefe was found dead. Read's lawyers plan to present evidence that O'Keefe suffered injuries consistent with a dog attack, which prosecutors have countered in what became a duel between experts in Read's first trial, which ended in a hung jury last year. When O'Keefe's body was found, McCabe told jurors, she didn't wake her first responder brother-in-law. Instead, she later went into the unlocked home and into her sister's bedroom, without seeing their dog, who, according to testimony in the first trial, was not good with strangers. Chloe's former owner, Nicole Albert, testified at Karen Read's trial in 2024 that the German Shepherd now lives on a farm in Vermont.
Epoch Times
28-04-2025
- Epoch Times
US Supreme Court Denies Accused Killer Karen Read's Petition
The nation's highest court on Monday denied accused killer Karen Read's petition for a writ of certiorari that would have reviewed her case under the lens of the Constitution's double jeopardy clause. Under the clause, a person cannot be prosecuted twice for the same offense. The U.S. Supreme Court Read, 44, is accused of having struck her police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe, 46, with an SUV during a snowstorm in January 2022. He was found unresponsive outside the house party of a fellow Boston police officer in Canton and subsequently died. Read had worked as a financial analyst and was an adjunct finance professor at Bentley College prior to the incident, while O'Keefe was a 16-year police veteran. Litigating parties file a petition for a writ of certiorari when they want the U.S. Supreme Court to review the rulings of a lower court. In this case, Read's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to review the rulings of the Superior Court of Massachusetts in Norfolk County. Related Stories 4/1/2025 4/25/2025 'Her scheduled retrial on two of the three counts pending against her, including a charge of second-degree murder, will violate the Double Jeopardy Clause because the jury in her first trial reached a final and unanimous, but unannounced, decision that she is not guilty of those charges,' Read's attorneys stated in her April 1 Prosecutors argued that the double jeopardy claim amounted to 'hearsay, conjecture and legally inappropriate reliance as to the substance of jury deliberations,' while Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally said there was never any indication that jurors had reached a verdict on any of the charges. On April 9, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson denied the application that would have paused Read's Massachusetts state court trial until the U.S. Supreme Court decided. Read's trial is now in its second week. Read's attorneys are Michael Pabian and Martin Weinberg. Pabian did not respond to requests for comment, and Weinberg declined to comment due to a court order. Prosecutors allege that Read had been drinking when she dropped O'Keefe off at the Canton house party just after midnight and that, during a three-point turn, she rammed O'Keefe and then drove away, allegedly returning hours later to find him in a snowbank. Read denied the allegations, maintaining her innocence. During the first trial, Read's defense attorneys said that it was possible that a police officer killed O'Keefe at the house party, implying corruption and suggesting their client was set up. An independent The Associated Press contributed to this report.
CBS News
25-03-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Boston area college students worry about job prospects amid rising unemployment
Seniors at Bentley College in Waltham say finding a job when they graduate is a tough proposition, especially with unemployment rising. Inside Bentley's Career Service Office on Tuesday, students were on the hunt, hoping to land a job when they graduate. "I think stepping into the real world is intimidating. That's going to happen with any student," Bentley senior John DeStazio said. Students said finding a job can be intimidating for seniors preparing to enter the workforce. Over the last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate increased for some with associate's degrees from 3.2% to 3.5%, and for those with a bachelor's degree or higher, it increased from 2.2% to 2.5%. Bentley Professor Jim Pouliopoulos tells his students: Don't panic when it comes to finding a job; don't let your degree define your career; and build your network early. It takes work and patience to land a job, but the opportunities are out there. "I think the outlook is actually pretty good because there are always sectors of the economy that are growing. When you approach graduation, tech, healthcare, AI - all of these fields are emerging, opportunity there," he said. "Don't panic. Because you will get a job as long as you just keep following the process, and it'll happen. You'll be able to move out of your parents' basement at some point." Administrators say getting internships as early as sophomore year is important to gain career experience and begin working. Bentley senior John Destazio is a finance major and just landed a job at Merrill Lynch, where he interned the previous year, as a client associate. "I was intimidated. I didn't know what to expect, but I came to the Career Center, and I got so much help when it came to my resume, when it came to my cover letter, my LinkedIn," DeStazio said. Bentley offers extensive career education curriculum classes beginning in students' freshman year. The college has been ranked No.1 five times as having the best career services office by The Princeton Review. "At least 97% of our graduating seniors will have a job within six months after graduation, and in 2024, it was 99%," Director of Undergraduate Career Development Alyssa Hammond said. That's a plus for junior Sophia Marchand, who is searching for a job now. "Real life is staring, and the nine-to-five is coming, and you just got to be ready," she said.
