John O'Keefe's brother Paul speaks out regarding Karen Reid mistrial.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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ohn O'Keefe's brother Paul speaks out regarding Karen Reid Mistrial. #JohnO'Keefe #Mistrial #KarenReid A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of Karen Read, a Massachusetts woman accused of killing of her boyfriend, ending a contentious, months-long trial that drew intense attention and protest to the courthouse in Dedham, Massachusetts. After five days of deliberation, the jury could not reach a verdict on Read, 44, who was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 46-year-old Boston police officer John O'Keefe after his body was found outside the home of Brian Albert, a friend of the couple, on a snowy January night in 2022. She had faced a maximum sentence of life in prison. Norfolk County Judge Beverly Cannone scheduled a status update in the case for July 22. The jury told Cannone on Friday and again on Monday that they could not reach unanimous agreement. Cannone directed them to continue deliberating but to no avail. The wide-ranging trial included testimony from more than 65 witnesses, from forensic experts and police investigators to multiple members of Albert's family and Okeefe's, since it began at the end of April.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to police off the cuff.
0:12.2	Real Crime Stories.
0:13.1	I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:18.5	First and foremost, I want to wish everyone a happy 4th of July.
0:23.5	Hope you're spending time with your friends and your family
0:25.6	and taking about 45 minutes to an hour or so away from your swimming pool
0:30.9	or your backyard barbecue to watch the police off the cuff program.
0:36.1	You know, this mistrial in regards to,
0:39.8	there's the victim in this case,
0:41.9	of Boston police officer, John O'Keeth,
0:45.5	it was painful, I would imagine, for both sides.
0:50.6	However, this case is going to be retried.
0:54.7	And this case had so much emotion on both sides of this case, the people that felt that Karen
1:03.1	Reed was being framed, people outside the courtroom, every day, hundreds of people outside
1:09.2	the courtroom.
1:10.7	Social media took a huge
1:12.7	interest in this case early on in this case i i covered it for a couple episodes and the
1:18.5	the audience that followed this case was just so divisive and bombastic and i decided not to cover it after two episodes. I took a certain
1:30.8	perspective, and there was obviously many of those who felt that it was the opposite of what I
1:37.8	felt. Anyway, a judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deadlocked in the case of Karen Reid, the Mansfield woman accused
1:46.8	of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend by striking him with her SUV and leaving him
1:52.1	in a snowstorm, a case that drew outsized attention thanks to true crime fanatics, conspiracy theorists
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