Ford Escape at 34 Fairview? Plow Driver Brian Loughran & Karina Kolokithas | Case Brief
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
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Day 27 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on June 4, 2025. When prosecution's usually focus on making a case clearer, in this case, the prosecution's strategy seems to be to muddy the evidence.
Brian Loughran, a snow plow driver, said he saw a Ford Edge parked on the street going up Fairview around 3-4am. There's a procedure to call in vehicles parked on the street during snow removal, but he did not do so. While Special Prosecutor, Hank Brennan, did the cross-examination, he focused on online activity, specifically about a blogger talking about him. He stated he knew someone was talking about him online, but he didn't feel threatened or harassed. He also mentioned that his wife had recently passed, and he wasn't paying attention to online activity.
Karina Kolokithas, a friend of John and Karen who was at the Waterfall Bar, spoke about how everyone was in a celebratory mood and having a good time. John O'Keefe was described as being "over the moon excited" for his niece and her future. She also mentioned that John and Karen were "sweet with one another." She talked to Karen Read for more than 50 minutes and noted that Karen was drinking water all night. She did not perceive Karen Read to be intoxicated. This point was highlighted as potentially persuasive for the jury regarding Karen Read's level of intoxication. Her testimony about the jovial evening was contrasted with the defense's presentation of the waterfall video, which focused on the interactions between Brian Higgins, Brian Albert, and Chris Albert, suggesting potential doubt about the overall mood of the evening.
RESOURCES
Retrial Day 25 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agSsaDTCZJc
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. |
| 0:10.3 | It's day 27 of trial. I'm exhausted. I'm sure the attorneys in trial are exhausted. I'm sure you're exhausted. |
| 0:17.6 | Yesterday was a lot of court to take in. |
| 0:21.6 | I don't know if you're starting to feel incredible empathy for the jury. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm sure you already have, but everything they see they get to see once, they don't get to talk about it. |
| 0:30.6 | They can't go back and like rewind and like watch it again and process it. |
| 0:34.6 | They have to sit there, listen, and then they have to wait to process it together, and it is going to get harder and harder. |
| 0:40.9 | A lot of you yesterday commented on how impactful the video was of Karen Reid's Lexus being pulled onto the tow truck. |
| 0:50.2 | I know that we saw it earlier in trial, but it seems that with the context that we have now, |
| 0:56.0 | seeing it again in this point in the defense case in chief was hugely impactful and really made a difference |
| 1:04.0 | because even though the Commonwealth played it much earlier in their case, |
| 1:08.0 | watching it now with everything you've done and everything you've seen and everything that you've heard about the case, watching it now with everything you've known and everything you've seen and everything that |
| 1:13.3 | you've heard about the case, seeing that pull onto the tow truck just hit different for those of you |
| 1:19.1 | that have not seen it multiple times and maybe only saw it once when the Commonwealth played |
| 1:24.1 | it because they did not play it very much. I also saw a ton of comments saying that knowing |
| 1:29.0 | that the Commonwealth did not call Officer Barrows, |
| 1:32.5 | even though they called him the first trial, |
| 1:34.1 | was like a period, period for you. |
| 1:36.7 | It doesn't matter what he was asked, |
| 1:38.1 | it doesn't matter what he said on cross-examine. |
| 1:40.1 | A lot of you said you felt that he was incredibly |
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