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Watch Live: Karen Read trial resumes as prosecution's case nears end
The Karen Read trial is back inside Norfolk Superior Court on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a week as the prosecution could be entering the final days of its case. You can watch testimony live on CBS News Boston when it begins at 9 a.m. by clicking on the video player above. The prosecution accuses Read of hitting and killing Boston police officer John O'Keefe, who she was dating at the time, with her SUV and leaving him to die in the cold outside Brian Albert's home in Canton after a night of heavy drinking. Read argues she is being framed and O'Keefe was actually killed during a fight inside the home at 34 Fairview Road. The defense could get the case at some point in the coming days. Read told reporters outside of court recently that Dr. Judson Welcher from Aperture LLC is expected to be the prosecution's final witness. Lawyers cannot confirm when Welcher or other witnesses will take the stand because they remain under a gag order. Special prosecutor Hank Brennan has been questioning the majority of witnesses. Alan Jackson has questioned most of witnesses on cross-examination for the defense, with David Yannetti and Bob Alessi questioning some as well. Karen Read trial schedule Full days of testimony are scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. A half day of testimony is scheduled to take place on Thursday. Judge Beverly Cannone delayed the start of Wednesday's witness testimony when she said an "issue" came to her attention that required her to question every juror individually at sidebar. When court proceedings resumed, all jurors were still present, though two had changed seats. Last week's witnesses included a forensic analyst discussing the movement of Read's Lexus SUV, a brain surgeon, and a crime lab analyst.
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20-05-2025
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Watch Live: Karen Read trial continues with expert cross-examined over Lexus data
The Karen Read trial is resuming Tuesday with a 19th day of witness testimony inside Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. Forensic analyst Shanon Burgess will be back on the stand for more cross-examination over his report on data from Read's Lexus SUV on the night prosecutors say she hit and killed John O'Keefe. You can watch testimony live on CBS News Boston when it begins at 9 a.m. by clicking on the video player above. Read is accused of hitting O'Keefe, a Boston police officer who she was dating, with her SUV in January 2022 after a night of drinking and leaving him to die in the snow outside Brian Albert's home at 34 Fairview Road in Canton. Her defense says O'Keefe was killed during a fight inside the home, then dragged outside and left in the yard. Special prosecutor Hank Brennan called Burgess as a witness on Monday. Burgess, a forensic analyst from Aperture LLC, testified that Read's Lexus drove in reverse around 12:32 a.m. on January 29, 2022. A prior witness testified that O'Keefe's cellphone stopped moving at almost the exact time. Defense attorney Bob Alessi began a tense cross-examination on Monday. Burgess was still on the stand when court ended for the day, so the forensic analyst returned a day later. Shanon Burgess testimony Alessi focused Monday on Burgess' academic credentials, noting that he does not have a bachelor's degree despite starting to study for that degree in 2008. The defense attorney also highlighted that Burgess changed his report to adjust his timeline of events based on the different clocks on Read's Lexus and O'Keefe's phone only two weeks ago. "So in approximately 10 years, this is the first time you've submitted an amended supplemental report in the middle of a trial?" Alessi asked. "A supplemental report, correct," Burgess said. Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol, and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. Her first trial ended with a mistrial due to hung jury in 2024.
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08-05-2025
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Karen Read's Google timeline derailed again as 2nd expert disputes defense claims
Join Fox News for access to this content Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account - free of charge. By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News' Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. Please enter a valid email address. Having trouble? Click here. A second expert on smartphone forensics testified Wednesday in the Karen Read trial that Jennifer McCabe's Google search about hypothermia happened after John O'Keefe's remains were found, not before, as the defense has argued. Jessica Hyde testified that she could say with scientific certainty that McCabe used her iPhone to search the phrase "hos (sic) long to die in cold" at 6:24 a.m. The defense claim that the search happened at 2:27 a.m. – hours before investigators say Read, McCabe and Kerry Roberts found O'Keefe dead in the snow at 34 Fairview Road – is incorrect, she testified. The earlier timestamp has no connection to the search but is actually assigned to the time McCabe opened the browser tab on her phone. That testimony supported earlier testimony from Ian Whiffin, a digital forensic expert from the firm Cellebrite, which makes some of the software and hardware that investigators use to look for information on phones and other devices. KAREN READ'S VOICEMAILS TO JOHN O'KEEFE PLAYED IN MURDER TRIAL: 'I F---ING HATE YOU' Hyde testified using specific terms – "hex editors," "hash values" and database files, wading into technical details about how phone data is extracted, preserved and interpreted. Even inexperienced analysts can have trouble making sense of things, she testified. David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defense attorney who has been following the case, questioned the prosecution's decision to have an expert witness for such technical testimony take the stand before the court's midday break. "For an expert, you want them to make it make sense to a 5-year-old," he told Fox News Digital. "They failed today. Add in that it was an incredibly boring subject, I would bet the jurors were just looking at the clock the whole time thinking what they will order for lunch." KAREN READ TRIAL: CANTON COP EXPLAINS USING LEAF BLOWER, RED SOLO CUPS, STOP & SHOP BAG FOR EVIDENCE After lunch, defense lawyer Robert Alessi handled the cross-examination, bringing up the same technical terms and grilling Hyde about her testimony at Read's first trial, which he was not part of. The trial last year ended with a deadlocked jury, leading the state to bring in special prosecutor Hank Brennan to retry the case. Without the jury present, Alessi asked the court for permission to reference a recent Maryland case that he said showed Hyde was an unreliable witness. Judge Beverly Cannone sided with Brennan's team and said he could not bring up the judge's decision in that case, but she said he would be free to cross-examine Hyde on the methodology she used to make her findings. KAREN READ SCORES MAJOR WIN AS JUDGE ALLOWS CRASH RECONSTRUCTION TESTIMONY Under cross-examination, she testified that O'Keefe's phone was not secured in alignment with established "best practices" after police recovered it from the scene. She sparred with Alessi, often using the same technical terms that may have alienated the jury on direct examination, Gelman said. SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER "Jurors don't want to sit through this for days and days," he said. "They want to get into the meat and potatoes." Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, manslaughter and fleeing the scene. She could face life in prison if convicted of the top charge. Massachusetts prosecutors allege she backed her Lexus SUV into and fatally struck O'Keefe before driving away after a night out drinking in Canton, a suburb of Boston. Through her defense lawyers, she has denied striking him at all. JENNIFER MCCABE DOUBLES DOWN ON KAREN READ'S ALLEGED 'I HIT HIM' CONFESSION BUT CAN'T FIND IT IN PAPER TRAIL Earlier in Wednesday's proceeding, Massachusetts State Trooper Connor Keefe took the stand to discuss how he collected evidence in the case, including phones from McCabe and Roberts as well as broken pieces of a taillight and O'Keefe's sneaker from the crime scene. At one point, he opened an evidence bag in front of the jury, and it had three pieces of broken plastic inside, not the expected two. "Do you know if the other piece in the bag is a piece that broke off?" Brennan asked. "Do you know how that arrived there?" FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X "I do not," Keefe said. Brennan asked for the pieces to be moved into evidence, but after an objection from Read's defense, the court instructed Keefe to place the third piece in a separate evidence bag. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES FROM THE FOX TRUE CRIME HUB But Keefe's testimony helped prosecutors establish a firm timeline of when and where police found broken taillight fragments: in the snow-covered street in front of 34 Fairview Road, where O'Keefe and Read had been seen the night before. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Testimony is expected to resume shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday.
