Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of serialously with me, Annie

Elise, and we have got an announcement.

There has been a verdict in the Karen Reed case.

It just came out about an hour ago, and let me break it all down for you. So it was a little wild because earlier

in the afternoon, the attorneys and the teams were called back to the courthouse saying that there

was a verdict, that the jury had knocked on the door that they said they reached a verdict but then before

everybody could even return to the courthouse they apparently knocked again and said they did not

have a verdict so everybody was like on standby i was live streaming on youtube at the time and

i was like what's going on do we have a verdict do we not was there like confusion did somebody

changed their mind then about 30 minutes went by and they came back with

the verdict. So she was found not guilty of murder too. She was found not guilty of manslaughter

and she was found not guilty of leaving the scene. However, she was found guilty of the surcharge

underneath manslaughter of an OUI, which in Massachusetts,

that it's operating under the influence.

You might also know that as a DUI, but Massachusetts, they call it an OUI.

So she was found guilty of that.

When the judge asked about scheduling sentencing, both sides agreed they could do it right then and

there. And I personally was expecting the Commonwealth to try and go for the max sentence, just, you know,

to really like stick it to her to get the biggest sentence they possibly could since she was found

not guilty on the other charges. But to my surprise, their recommendation was one-year probation and classes,

which is apparently the standard for an OUI charge for first-time offenders. So perhaps that's why

it was recommended. Or maybe at that point, they were like, all right, she is found not guilty.

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