Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.

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Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.

If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.

If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.

All right, guys, let's get to it.

It is August 9, 2024, and today there is going to be a hearing in the Karen Reed trial.

And we're going to cover this debacle of a verdict.

It's just so embarrassing all the way through in this case with Karen Reed versus the

Commonwealth man. Is there anything else the state of Massachusetts can F up in this case?

These overpaid hacks can't even construct a juror form, a questionnaire, guilty, not guilty.

There has to be this big blow-up in court over it, and the judge finally bows down and does

the right thing. And it's still left up. Jurors have to contact the defense and saying,

hey, not for nothing, but we were all looking to acquit on murder.

And get this, it's a headshaker, but everything in this case is, the juror, I forget the number,

but the first juror to come forward said he or she actually reached out to the prosecution first because they're the

Commonwealth and I'd assume they'd think there's more of a direct conduit to the judge.

They reached out to the Commonwealth saying that they were looking to acquit on the second

degree murder charge and the prosecution does nothing about it.

As far as I can tell, they didn't alert the judge at all.

Some time passes, the same juror reaches out to the defense and David Yenetti goes to court

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