Hi, everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and welcome back to another episode of Drop Dead

Serious. Today was day six of the Karen Reed retrial and we covered a lot of ground. The morning

was long and it was tense with a cell phone expert from Cell Bright back on

the stand, Ian Withen. He had to brace himself for Karen's lawyers and their cross-examination.

And then in the afternoon, a total emotional pivot when a star witness, Jen McCabe, Jennifer

McCabe, finally took the stand and described the moment that she saw her

dear friend John O'Keefe lying in the snow. The afternoon ended abruptly, but not before the judge

had some harsh words and made a very important ruling, like you might say the most important

ruling of the case. So let's start

with the morning. Right out of the gate, Karen Reed's defense attorney was ready for battle and a cross-examination

of the prosecutor's cell phone expert, Ian Wiffin from Cellbright. Robert Alessi grilled that

expert on something buried in his own report,

a screenshot showing that John O'Keefe's phone could have been inside the house at 34 Fairview Road.

The report actually showed that O'Keefe's phone could have been anywhere within a huge area of the house,

not just out on the lawn and not just out on the driveway,

inside the actual house,

where that party was going on that snowy night.

And then came the activity logs and a key moment that happened at 1236 a.m.

The prosecutor's cell phone expert testified two very

specific things happened with John's phone. First, face ID was activated, and then the phone

was locked manually using the lock button. And both of these events would have required some kind of human interaction.

Karen's lawyer hammered home the point that someone had to be handling that phone in order for that to happen.

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