You're listening to live courtroom coverage of the trial of Karen Reid from the Hidden

Killers podcast and True Crime Today. Now, back to the courtroom.

Photographs have been entered into evidence, and in some instances, those photographs will

be inside an envelope when they go back to you to the deliberation room. The photographs may be graphic and unpleasant.

As I told you when you first saw them, your verdict must not in any way be influenced by the fact

that these photographs may be graphic or unpleasant. The defendant is entitled to a verdict

based solely on the evidence and not one based on pity or sympathy. Consider a photograph only as it

may show a medical condition, the nature of the injuries, or the details of the incident itself.

You heard evidence of statements made by John O'Keefe. These statements were admitted only for a limited

purpose of establishing John O'Keefe's state of mind.

You are not to consider this testimony as proof that the defendant has bad character or propensity to commit crimes.

The testimony of witnesses recounting conversations with Mr. O'Keefe or messages the defendant's phone received from him can only be used as they go to the defendant's motive or intent on January 29th,

and only if you find that Ms. Reed was aware of Mr. O'Keefe's state of mind at the time of the crime and would be likely to respond to it.

There need not be direct evidence that

the defendant learned of Mr. O'Keefe's state of mind, so long as you can reasonably infer from

the evidence that she did learn of it. Now, you have heard testimony about statements

allegedly made by Ms. Reed. Before you may consider any such statement, you're going to

have to make a preliminary determination whether it can be considered as evidence or not, and for

what purpose it may be used. You may not consider any such statement in your deliberations

for the truth of any such statement unless, from all of the evidence in the case,

the Commonwealth has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant made the statement

that she's alleged to have made, and that she made it voluntarily, freely, and rationally.

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