Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead serious. It is day 30 of the Karen Reed

retrial, and we are officially in the home stretch. Thank you, Jesus. Today, we heard fierce testimony

from a pathologist and the debut of what may be the

final witness for the defense, a biomechanics expert who says the injuries in this case just do not line up with a taillight.

But before the jury even walked into the room this morning, the legal fireworks had already started.

Right out of the gate, Judge Canoni was cracking down on the expert testimony.

The defense and the prosecution clashed over what exactly is going to be allowed.

First, the judge wanted to talk about some pictures that the defense

might show to the jury. One of them showed John O'Keefe's brainstem, and the judge said,

it might be too graphic for them. She told the defense to crop out some of the blood to make it

less disturbing. And then came a fight about testimony.

The defense wanted their expert witness, Dr. La Posada, to say John O'Keeves' wounds were from a

dog bite. But the judge said no, she would not be allowed to say that. She said the jury could hear only one sentence that the wounds looked like ones Dr. La Posada

had seen before that were from, quote, an animal.

But she could not say dog.

That made Karen Reed's lawyer, Alan Jackson, furious.

He said this was unfair and outrageous.

He tried to show pictures to make his point, but the judge, again, not having it.

She said no.

Then prosecutor Hank Brennan stood up and he accused the defense of trying to sneak in things

that they shouldn't be allowed to say in court, basically using witnesses

to say things that the law does not allow. What's key here is that the court has decided that

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