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🗓️ 7 June 2025
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Watch the full coverage of the live stream on The Emily D Baker YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/fyEtt02zOn8
Day 28 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on June 6, 2025. Karen Read spoke to the media and suggested the case might go to the jury the following week. The judge denied the motion to have police procedure expert Michael Easter testify.
Today we were all day with Dr. Daniel Wolfe, Direct of Accident Reconstruction at ARCCA. He tests conducted using a pressurized air cannon to fire a drinking glass at a car's tail light to simulate damage. ARCCA also purchased an "exemplar vehicle," a 2021 LX 570, to test damage to the tail light. ARCCA conducted tests to rebut Dr. Welcher's testimony. They tested to see if damage from a thrown rocks glass matched the damage to Karen Read's tail light, and compared that to damage from collisions with a test dummy arm and Resource Randy, a full body dummy. Tests were conducted using a crash test dummy with a hoodie similar to John O'Keefe's, and none of the tests damaged the hoodie. The most helpful part of Dr. Wolf's testimony was explaining the inner and outer plastic layers of the tail light, which helped understand the depth of the damage.
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What You Need to Know About the Retrial - https://youtu.be/89Jpa8vz1RQ
Karen Read Retrial Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbUyvZas7gKOJlfL__9F027hlETVU-vo
Karen Read Trial - 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbUyvZas7gKUeCUzApgsEuQRXu5IXeTS
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0:00.0 | Welcome back. It's time for a case brief, keeping you in the loop with the cases you care about most, just more briefly. |
0:05.3 | If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now, let's get into it. |
0:10.7 | Day 28 of the Karen Reed retrial. It is Friday. It's June 6th. Hopefully you had a good day off. |
0:19.9 | We needed to talk about the fact that on Wednesday after court, |
0:25.9 | Karen Reid spoke to the media, which she has been doing. Yes, her lawyers have a gag order. No, |
0:30.2 | she does not. She spoke to the media and said that they should be done more or less with their case |
0:35.6 | by Tuesday next week. So this case might go to the |
0:38.6 | jury next week. They were told it was an eight-week trial except for deliberations, and it looks |
0:44.6 | like they might get this trial within that eight-week window, which is wild. At the very end of the |
0:51.7 | day, the judge came back onto the bench for like 30 seconds, |
0:54.8 | give or take a few seconds, and ruled on the motion or the renewed motion for reconsideration |
1:02.6 | to have the police procedure expert, Michael Easter, testified for the defense. The court denied it. |
1:08.1 | I thought that they were going to use Officer Barrows for that a little bit more, but they didn't. |
1:12.6 | Who knows what's coming next? Well, except for all of us at this point because today, chat, |
1:19.6 | gird your loins. Today is ARCA Day. |
1:22.6 | Myself and one of our lab technicians at ARCA, we designed and developed a pressurized air cannon. |
1:28.5 | So it was capable of firing a projectile such as a drinking glass at the taillight. |
1:34.0 | So it essentially sent it, you can think of it kind of as a giant cannon, but it had a barrel. |
1:39.3 | And then there was a valve that would open rapidly and directly behind the yeat cannon of drinking glass so they could |
1:47.6 | eat cannon a drinking glass at a car and see if it would shatter a tail light his job is mythbusters |
1:54.8 | his job is myth busters it's like let's rig up a cannon to fire whiskey glasses at a car. |
2:03.6 | That was a pressurized vessel. |
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