MA v. Karen Read Murder Retrial - Motions Hearing Day 2 PART 1
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🗓️ 6 March 2025
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Summary
Karen Read's defense team has filed a motion to dismiss based on what they say is "extraordinary governmental misconduct" on the part of the prosecution.
Read is charged with second-degree murder and other charges in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, who was found dead in the snow outside of a friend’s home after a night out drinking.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special report from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | Karen Reid back in court again today, and we're going to take you right there for all of the coverage of what's going on in that courtroom and the follow-ups with Judge Beverly Canone. Let's go there right now. |
| 0:23.0 | Dismiss for extraordinary governmental misconduct, a true and correct to the best of my knowledge |
| 0:28.2 | signed and sworn to under the pains and penalties of perjury this 21st day of February |
| 0:33.5 | 2025. So the fact, what you state is fact that Lieutenant Fanning had control over |
| 0:41.6 | and access to this jury is simply not true, Mr. Jackson. The only people who have any access |
| 0:49.1 | to those jurors are the court officers and the Department of Security of the trial court in |
| 0:54.0 | this courtroom. |
| 0:55.5 | So I am going to ask you what your good faith basis is for that. |
| 1:00.8 | And I'd like you to start there. |
| 1:02.9 | If the court recalls the discussion at Sidebar, we were told for the very first time, |
| 1:18.6 | Your Honor, about this issue concerning the juror and concerning the individual who reported information suggesting that there was some |
| 1:31.4 | sort of misconduct at sidebar by the court with no additional information. |
| 1:37.6 | No, I didn't tell you about the role. I didn't know who it was. I'm getting to that because that was the next |
| 1:45.4 | conversation that we had. When we were told on the day of closing argument to approach |
| 1:53.1 | sidebar, the court indicated through multi-level hearsay, we'll all agree that it was some |
| 1:59.1 | sort of multi-level hearsay suggestion that there was agree that it was some sort of multi-level hearsay suggestion |
| 2:02.2 | that there was some sort of misconduct by the jurors or by a specific juror. |
| 2:07.3 | We pressed the issue at sidebar and asked who the source was. |
| 2:11.8 | At that time for the first time, we were told the name Lieutenant Fanning. |
| 2:16.9 | We obviously recognized that. You were not just so clear Fanning we obviously recognized that so |
| 2:19.5 | clear you were not told that by me no we were told that by I'm getting to that |
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