Karen Read Retrial Day 1 - Daily Case Brief
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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The Retrial of Karen Read began on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Trial One started on April 29th, 2024. Day One focused on Jury Instructions, Opening Statements and First Witnesses.
The Prosecution's Opening Statement was done by Hank Brennan and considered better than in the previous trial done by Adam Lally. Brennan focused on Karen Read's statements, suggesting she was covering things up and knew where John O'Keefe was because she left him there. They played a video interview statement where Karen Read said John O'Keefe was not mortally wounded when she last saw him. The Defense's Opening Statements was conducted by Alan Jackson instead of David Yannetti who did it the first time. Jackson simplified their defense, asserting that John O'Keeffe was not hit by a car. They focused on the lack of proper investigation at 34 Fairview Rd and evidence that they believe will support their claim. The Defense brought up Former Trooper Michael Proctor, which the prosecution did not mention.
The first witness was firefighter/paramedic Timothy Nuttall, whose testimony about when Karen Read said, "I hit him," was discussed, including discrepancies and potential memory issues. The second witness was Kerry Roberts, who was with Jen McCabe and Karen Read at 34 Fairview when John O'Keefe's body was found. Her testimony was stopped as she described Karen Reed running towards a mound of snow.
At the end of the day, Judge Cannone held a hearing outside of the presence of the Jury regarding the Prosecution’s Motion to Compel ARCCA. The Judge determine that the Defense committed a Discovery Violation and scheduled Friday, April 25, 2025, to Voir Dire ARCCA witnesses.
The Retrial is expected to last 6 to 8 weeks.
RESOURCES
What You Need to Know About the Retrial - https://youtu.be/89Jpa8vz1RQ
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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, let's get into it. |
| 0:10.0 | It's Tuesday, it's April 22nd, 2025. We are here for day one of the retrial of Karen Reid. Yes, the retrial. She started trial in 2024 on April 29th, |
| 0:23.4 | 2024. And we are all back here again. So today we are going to get into opening statements. |
| 0:31.1 | Remember, before opening statements, there's a whole bunch of jury instructions that have to be read. |
| 0:36.4 | So we're going to get through a whole bunch of jury instructions that have to be read. So we're going to get through a whole |
| 0:38.0 | bunch of jury instructions before we get to opening statements. At the end of day one, we have seen |
| 0:44.2 | opening statements. Net net, I think the prosecution's opening statement was far better than it was last |
| 0:48.5 | trial. And I think the defense simplified their defense. They made it very clear at the beginning of their opening |
| 0:56.0 | that John O'Keefe was not hit by a car and they focused on the investigation. |
| 1:02.0 | They focused on the lack of investigation at 34 Fairview and they focused on the evidence that will show in their argument |
| 1:09.0 | that John O'Keefe was not hit by a car. |
| 1:11.4 | The prosecution did not focus on that it was snowing, but focused on Karen Reid's statements, |
| 1:16.8 | said that Karen Reed was the one covering things up, that she knew exactly where to find John |
| 1:21.3 | O'Keefe, because that is where she left him, focused on the statement where she said, |
| 1:25.5 | when I last saw him, and I'm paraphrasing, because it's been a very long day. |
| 1:29.3 | When I saw him, he was not mortally wounded or mortally injured. |
| 1:32.3 | Dateline, October 13th. |
| 1:34.3 | I mean, I didn't think I hid him hit him, but could I have clipped him? |
| 1:38.6 | Could I tagged him in the knee and incapacitated him? |
| 1:42.2 | He didn't look mortally wounded as far as I could see, but could I have done |
| 1:47.3 | something that knocked him out and in his drunkenness and in the cold didn't come to again. |
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