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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:14.9 | Hello and welcome to the sidebar presented by true crime news taking you inside the courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country. I'm your |
0:19.5 | host Joshua Ritter. I'm a criminal defense lawyer based in Los Angeles and previously an LA County prosecutor for nearly a decade. |
0:27.0 | You can find me on all social media at Joshua Ritter ESQ or at Joshua Ritter. |
0:32.8 | We are recording this on Friday, June 28, 2024. |
0:38.1 | In this week's episode, a judge finds himself on the opposite side of the bench as he's ordered to stand trial for the |
0:44.7 | shooting death of his wife. Plus a misstep by the prosecution of an only-fans |
0:50.2 | model charged with murder as a judge rules to exclude a key piece of evidence. |
0:56.4 | But first, deliberations continue into their fourth day in the case of Karen Reed as jurors |
1:02.4 | decide whether the woman is responsible for the death of a police |
1:05.8 | officer or the victim of a massive cover-up. |
1:10.1 | I'm flying slow low this week folks so I know we have a lot to cover I've been paying attention to these cases bear with me let's jump right in first we move to |
1:20.8 | Denham Massachusetts where the fate of a woman charged with the death of her police |
1:25.5 | officer boyfriend hangs in the balance as jurors deliberate the evidence and the defense |
1:30.5 | claims of a massive cover-up. |
1:33.0 | Karen Reed is charged with second-degree murder after prosecutors say she hit her romantic |
1:37.8 | partner, John O'Keefe, with a car and left the man to die in the snow. |
1:43.2 | Reed's defense contends that O'Keefe was actually killed in the home of another officer |
1:48.0 | before his body was dragged to its eventual resting place. |
1:52.4 | In closing arguments, Reed's defense stuck to the rhetoric they maintain throughout the proceedings |
1:58.0 | with Lee Defense Attorney Alan Jackson stating, quote, there was a cover-up in this case, plain and simple, alleging that O'Keefe was |
2:06.0 | likely killed in an altercation and bitten by a German Shepherd before his body was staged. The defense presented multiple expert witnesses to close |
2:15.8 | their case all with the intent of casting doubt on the shards of taillight from Reed's |
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