Karen Read Case: Prosecution Accuses Defense of Trial By Ambush Regarding ARCCA Witness Discovery

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Karen Read was back in court on April 16th, 2025 to resolve outstanding issues. Jury selection was completed on April 15th with 18 jurors. Opening Statements will begin on Tuesday, April 22nd after the Boston Marathon holiday weekend. The court most likely had planned for a four-day weekend, and lawyers preferred not to start opening statements before such a break. The court is also slightly ahead of schedule. Alan Jackson and Hank Brennan will be conducting Opening Statements. The Commonwealth plans to use Karen Read's media interviews against her. The Defense's strategy is to use Internal Affairs Investigations Against state troopers and Former Trooper Proctor. There are still outstanding disputes regarding ARCCA experts and discovery obligations. The Prosecution is arguing that the Defense has not provided sufficient discovery on ARCCA witnesses, while the Defense claims they were responding to late disclosures from the Prosecution. The Motion to Sequester Aidan Kearney was brought up to see whether he will be excluded from the media pool due to being on the Commonwealth's witness list and potential Fifth Amendment issues. It was decided that he would not be excluded from the courtroom except for specific witness testimonies. I'll be providing daily Case Briefs of each day in court. Watch the full coverage of the live stream on The Emily D Baker YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/VvwM5fC6Zr8 RESOURCES Karen Read Mistrial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJ_QZ5Neik This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/Podscribe - https://podscribe.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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,
0:04.0	just more briefly. If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now,
0:08.6	let's get into it. It is Wednesday. It's April 16th. We are going to be in court today for the
0:16.8	Karen Reid retrial. Technically, we are at the beginning of trial two for the Karen Reed case.
0:24.5	Karen Reed went through trial number one. At the end of that trial, the jury was unable to reach a
0:28.8	verdict. The court declared a mistrial, and then all the wheels continued to come off. Do we expect
0:36.5	anything else in this case? 100% no.
0:39.3	Is anyone shocked that in this case where so many things are already not the way that they should ever be,
0:47.3	that the wheels continued to come off?
0:49.3	Not shocked at all.
0:51.3	A jury was selected yesterday, April 15th.
0:55.7	They started April 1st. They selected 18 jurors.
0:57.5	We had been hearing reports that they would do just 16.
1:00.1	They decided to do 18.
1:01.3	I think that's the right amount.
1:02.7	Because what we're going to find is even after a weekend, after a holiday weekend,
1:07.6	you're going to lose a couple people on the jury.
1:09.8	You're going to lose alternates. Last trial, I think they lost two or three before they even started opening
1:17.0	statements. So do I think they'll even start this case with 18? Maybe not, but they have 18.
1:25.8	So the question is, why aren't we doing opening statements today?
1:29.7	We're not doing opening statements today because today is Wednesday before Easter weekend.
1:36.0	I imagine the court had intended to be off on Friday. I imagine the court had intended to be off
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