Brennan Goes Off on ARCCA. John O'Keefe Cellphone Timeline | Case Brief

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Day 5 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on April 28, 2025. It began with testimony from Ian Whiffin of Cellebrite. He was approached by the Public Relations department to figure out why there is such confusion with the information from Jen McCabe's phone from the first trial. This new strategy from the Prosecution getting ahead of Jen McCabe's Google search for, "Hos long to die in cold," is smart and might take the string from that revelation when it is presented to the jury.

Mr. Whiffin created a Timeline, combining health data, temperature, call/text logs, and location data from O'Keefe's phone. Cross-examination was conducted by Robert Alessi by confirming points on the timeline and highlighting what was included or left out. The Cross Examination was cut short due to the jury having a half day so that the Voir Dire of the ARCCA witnesses could be done.

Hank Brennan did not use his time wisely when questioning the first ARCCA witness, Dr. Daniel Wolfe. Brennan accused Dr. Wolfe of being biased and assisting the defense with their case. Brennan yelled at Dr. Wolfe and didn't stop when the Judge asked him to. Judge Cannone eventually coaxed Brennan to move on and tighten his questioning with the next witness. The second ARCCA witness, Dr. Andrew Rentschler, admitted to having an uncomfortable lunch with Karen Read after he testified in court of the first trial. Judge Cannone requested ARCCA to send their report by May 7th. The Voir Dire is not done yet because the Prosecution and the Defense need to present their oral arguments. When will this happen? Stay tuned!

RESOURCES

Day 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rj_yLDmgIU

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.
0:04.0	Just more briefly. If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now,
0:08.6	let's get into it. It is Monday. It's April 28th. Can you believe it? Neither can I. It's day five
0:16.6	of the Karen Reed case. Today is a half day for the jury as well, but not for us because the ARCA experts are on this
0:24.0	afternoon doing their voir dire.
0:25.2	So here's what I expect today.
0:26.8	We're going to do a half day of testimony.
0:28.5	We'll see what the Commonwealth brings.
0:31.1	And then the jury will be excused for the day at lunchtime and then we will do the arc
0:36.5	of voir dire.
0:38.3	What does that mean? It means that because the court found a discovery violation on the part of the defense,
0:43.3	instead of keeping these witnesses out, the Commonwealth gets to ask them the discovery questions that they might not have had.
0:51.3	So the Commonwealth gets to go, hey, when did you start talking to the defense?
0:56.2	Hey, are your text messages really gone?
0:59.1	Hey, what about this?
1:00.5	What about that?
1:01.2	They think they're gonna do this in a half a day.
1:03.4	I think that's adorable.
1:04.7	We'll see what happens.
1:06.2	So this afternoon, we will get that voir dire
1:10.4	outside the presence of the jury.
1:13.2	Yes, it was actually one of the public relations managers at Celebrite who reached out to me
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