How Will A Jury Take Karen Read's Admission Of 'He Didn't Look Mortally Wounded' In New Trial, Attorney Bob Motta Talks
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Could Karen Read’s own words be the thing that seals her fate?
The sequel trial is heating up, and this time, the prosecution’s bringing receipts—dozens of interview clips featuring Karen Read and her, well... less-than-empathetic takes. Defense Attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to unravel how these new elements could flip the courtroom dynamics. We're talking contradictions galore—from blurry “I don’t remember” moments to crystal-clear alternate versions of events that shift like a drunk trying to explain where their phone went last night.
And while none of this screams “murderer,” it definitely doesn’t scream “jury favorite” either. With Judge Canonne possibly allowing these statements if the defense points fingers again, Read could find herself caught in a trap of her own making—unless she testifies, which could unleash a whole new level of chaos.
Can someone really believe in their innocence so hard they talk themselves into trouble? Or is this all part of a larger game of courtroom chess with someone else's life on the line?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brucey. |
| 0:04.0 | The trial of Karen Reid about to get underway, and there's a lot of new things that are going to be in the sequel trial, things that we didn't hear in the first trial. |
| 0:16.0 | And one of those big things is going to be a lot of clips from a lot of interviews. |
| 0:23.6 | You know, the ones that we've been talking about for like the last six, seven months. |
| 0:27.8 | Those seemingly lack of empathy interviews, cold, callous responses to people in this case that, you know, probably don't deserve the cold callousness |
| 0:41.8 | that they're receiving. It's not probably going to play super well for Karen. I know they're not |
| 0:47.4 | super happy about it, but here to help us break this all down and understand what it means |
| 0:51.7 | in court. It is Bob Mata, host of the podcast, Defense Diaries and Defense Attorney. |
| 0:57.7 | So, yeah, all those clips, they're going in. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, I mean, that was, right? |
| 1:04.8 | I mean, you had to know that Brennan was going to be looking to get all those clips in. |
| 1:09.5 | I mean, here's the thing. I don't know how much. that Brennan was going to be looking to get all those clips in. Yeah. |
| 1:13.2 | I mean, here's the thing. |
| 1:20.1 | I don't know how much, if anything, that they prove, but it's not a good look. |
| 1:23.2 | It certainly doesn't make her a murderer. |
| 1:25.5 | And I've said that every time. |
| 1:33.9 | I mean, it, but if we're going, I mean, because this trial, the first one really seemed to be based more on personality than anything else. |
| 1:38.5 | And that being that of Proctor and, you know, possible cover up and things of that nature. |
| 1:46.1 | This pulls her right down there, if not even lower, with some of the things that she's publicly said. And the nightmare of it all is none of it needed to happen. This is all her doing. Her own words, I feel, are, I don't know |
| 1:53.0 | if they're going to sink her into the place of being convicted of murder, but it's certainly |
| 1:58.1 | not going to help you with a jury that, you know, they're human |
| 2:01.1 | beings. And if something's going to tip the scale to getting you convicted of murder, |
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