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Karen Reads The defense team’s decision not to call them to the witness stand is a gambling that in its second murder process helps or could help or hinder its harmful interview clips so that the jury read’s version of events could hear in its own words.
Reading faces the possibility of life in prison for the presumed murder From her friend, the Boston police officer John O’keefe. O’Keefe and her Lexus SUV met the claims of the public prosecutor in a drunken dispute and had him freezed shortly after midnight on January 29, 2022 in the front garden of a friend’s house party.
Read’s defense team insists that your vehicle never contacted O’keefe and there was no collision.
“When I came to practice for the first time, it was never up to your customer,” the New York defender Louis Gelormmero told Fox News Digital. “But sometimes I don’t agree. I think we have achieved our greatest victories when we bring our customers up to date.”
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Karen Read Walking with one of her lawyers, Alan Jackson, Mass during her court proceedings on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Dedham. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald about AP, pool)
On Tuesday the defense submitted the team Proposed instructions from the jury This indicates that reading will not take the view in your exam.
“As you know, Ms. Read did not attest in this attempt,” says the instructions. “You can’t keep that against you. Ms. Read has an absolute right not to say because, as I explained, she is considered innocent and has to do nothing to convince her that she is innocent.”
The instructions emphasize that the reason why it was read is not relevant for the considerations of the jury, not to take the witness state and cannot be regarded as evidence in your process. Right -wing experts say that Fox News Digital decided to prevent a defendant from being the best choice.
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Karen Read and John O’keefe posing for an undated photo. (Karen Read)
Gelormo said he believes that reading would strongly give the witness stand, but would give it to the testimony of the witness, does not come without risks.
“I think the reason why they hide them is that they don’t have to explain all of these videos they saw they were not doing well,” said Gelormino.
Karen Read Talks with their lawyers Robert Alessi and David Yannetti during their process at Norfolk Superior Court on Tuesday, May 6th, 2025, in Dedham. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald about AP, pool)
The special prosecutor Hank Brennan played numerous clips from reads television interviews and chose clips that could possibly damage defense.
“I also wonder, I said, ‘I could have beat it?” Read said In a 2024 interview with Investigation Discovery. “Or was I told that I said I hit him. And I knew that I could never have said that, the next thing I said was: ‘Did I hit him?'”
Read in the clip when you ask “Really [said] It claims as often as law enforcement. ”
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In another clip, she spoke about sparking her own drinks with additional pictures because they weren’t strong enough.
Gelormo said that the defense team probably does not want to read aloud that it should be confronted with her statements In the case of cross -experiencesYou may open the door for days of tense survey from the state.
“You don’t want you to be bad behavior or what people think would be bad,” said Gelormino.
The decision to read the status could possibly prevent you from providing an explanation for your statements in the interviews and at the same time clarifying your side of history.
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The public prosecutor’s office Hank Brennan questions a witness during the Karen on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Dedham, Mass, before the murder process at the Norfolk Superior Court in the Norfolk Superior Court. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald about AP, pool)
“There are two pages of each coin,” Gelormino told Fox News Digital. “You could put them on and try to have them explained, or they can avoid it completely.”
Gelormino pointed out the reality that Read could appear defensive and at the same time offered an explanation for their stories in front of the camera, which could change the perception of their personality by the jury.
“As a defender, you have to clean it up,” said Gelormino. “So you will spend a lot of time to defend your character there.”
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Karen Read arrives on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in Dedham, Massachusetts on Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 on Wednesday, May 28th, 2025. (Greg Derr / The Patriot Ledger / USA Today Network about Imagn Images)
The videos set up a new obstacle for defense because they were not played in Read’s first attempt last year.
“The first jury to be almost convicted when he was read under the influence of homicide,” Jack Lu, professor for the judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, told Fox News Digital. “This had no video statements by the accused. Here we have many harmful statements and maybe refute a few more in.”
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According to LU, the defense did not try to tackle the video clips or to provide a context in relation to Read’s version of events in the test version at that time.
“So, the same process and the harmful video in which the jury was almost convicted is bad for defense,” said Lu.
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Since the defense continues to call witnesses, the remarkable lack of Read’s own certificate will probably only be completely noticeable when the jury reads its judgment, whereby the public prosecutor’s office is the only page that has decided to include its own words in the courtroom.
“Based on the fact that they last had a suspended jury last time, [the defense has] A decent case, “Gelormero told Fox News Digital. It is a difficult decision.”
