Karen Read Trial Behavioral Analysis Shows Defense Lawyers Losing Confidence
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Former FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke provides exclusive insights into the dramatic shift in courtroom dynamics during Karen Read's murder retrial. In this detailed analysis, Dreeke breaks down the subtle but telling behavioral indicators that suggest Read's defense team is already showing signs of defeat as the prosecution builds an overwhelming case.
Drawing from his extensive FBI experience in reading human behavior under pressure, Dreeke examines how defense attorneys' body language, vocal patterns, and strategic choices reveal their growing recognition that they're fighting a losing battle. From the failed cross-examination of prosecution witnesses to the disastrous performance of their own expert witnesses, the defense team's confidence appears to be crumbling in real-time.
This analysis covers key testimony from the snowplow driver Brian Loughran, whose media-contaminated memory was systematically dismantled by Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan, and bar witness Karina Kolokithas, whose observations actually reinforced the prosecution's narrative about alcohol consumption and underlying tensions that night.
Dreeke explains how competent legal teams maintain composure even when losing, versus the visible stress signals and defensive behaviors now emerging from Read's attorneys. The expert analysis reveals why certain strategic choices - like the aggressive directed verdict motion and reliance on untested expert witnesses - suggest internal recognition of case weakness.
As the defense prepares to present their conspiracy theory involving multiple law enforcement officers, Dreeke provides insight into why this psychologically implausible narrative will likely backfire with jurors who prefer straightforward explanations supported by physical evidence. The behavioral analysis shows how Read's team appears to be going through the motions of a case they may privately believe is already lost.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.1 | Another point here that happened recently, the testimony of Kelly Devor, Devor, Devor, Devor, |
| 0:12.4 | I know I'm screwing up her name, and I should know it. |
| 0:14.9 | I know the defense attorneys messed it up too. |
| 0:18.4 | But I'm going to say Devere. |
| 0:20.3 | She was the former Canton police officer |
| 0:22.9 | who originally gave a report saying that she had seen Brian Higgins and Berkowitz in the Sally Port with |
| 0:32.1 | Reed's car. Then, a little bit after, timestamps showed that she couldn't have because she was already |
| 0:40.9 | either gone for the day or not there yet. |
| 0:43.0 | It was one of the two. |
| 0:43.8 | I forget which one. |
| 0:45.3 | But physically, it would have been impossible for this event to have ever taken place. |
| 0:49.9 | So it's a false memory. |
| 0:52.2 | Now, in a case that is living on conspiracy, on a case that is... a false memory. Now, in a case that's really, but is living on conspiracy, on a case that is, in false memories, and is fraught with all sorts of just, nothing can be easy here. |
| 1:04.1 | Nothing can just be straightforward of, I saw this, here's what it is. |
| 1:07.7 | Now we're introducing false memory into the testimony. And at the end of the |
| 1:12.1 | day, I know she played very well actually for the prosecution despite being a defense witness |
| 1:17.1 | because she called out Alan Jackson for his behavior, basically demanding allegedly that |
| 1:24.5 | she testify one specific way. And if she did not, she claims that he threatened |
| 1:29.4 | that he'd find a way to charge her with perjury. She calls the FBI and gets, has some sort of |
| 1:36.9 | conversation there about, would this be perjury? If I'm saying this right now, I didn't, |
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