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Former Cop Accuses Defense of Threats in Karen Read Trial Bombshell | Karen Read Trial Day 25

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On Day 25 of Karen Read’s murder trial, the courtroom turned into a battlefield.
From bombshell accusations and FBI claims to a tense cross-examination that cleared the courtroom early, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down everything that happened on Day 25. 



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0:00.0

You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Officer Devereaux shot back, I have no idea why I'm here, she said. I have no connection to this case.

3:11.3

But that didn't stop the defense from grilling her. Then came one of the more explosive moments of Officer Devers' testimony, a direct challenge to something she once told investigators under oath.

3:22.7

Heron's lawyer asked whether she told an outside law enforcement agency

3:26.8

that she saw Brian Higgins with Karen Reed's SUV

3:31.0

in the sally port of the Canton Police Department.

3:35.4

Remember, Brian Higgins is one of the men that the defense says

3:38.0

could have killed John O'Keefe.

3:42.9

And alongside Higgins, former Canton Police Chief Ken Berkowitz, who passed away last December. The defense has long suggested

3:48.5

that Berkowitz may have tampered with taillight evidence. On the stand today, Officer Devere did not

3:56.0

deny that she said it.

4:00.8

Quote, that was my recollection at the time, she testified.

4:03.1

But she quickly added something else.

4:12.6

She now knows that memory was wrong because of the timeline showing when the SUV actually arrived at the garage.

4:15.0

And then she dropped this. Quote, we've discussed this previously.

4:19.0

I can't make this statement on the stand because I've been provided information released by the defense

4:26.0

that it was not a memory, it was a distorted memory.

4:34.0

Therefore, I can't state it because at this point it would be a lie.

4:37.8

Karen's lawyer, unfazed, shot back, Ms. Devere,

4:41.3

I've never asked you to make a statement one way or another on the stand.

4:44.2

I'm asking you an open-ended question. Did you observe something in the Sally Port garage on January 29, 22,

4:51.5

that you found unusual that stuck out in your mind? Officer Devere responded firmly,

4:57.8

saying that based on what she now knows about the timeline, she is certain that she did not

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