Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Bannfield. Welcome to another episode of Drop Dead

Serious. It is day 20 in Karen Reed's murder trial, and today was supposed to be business

as usual, but court had barely begun before everything came to a screeching halt. Some mysterious issue sent the

judge into lockdown mode, and it's the kind of thing that can bring a trial to a crashing

halt and waste millions of dollars in taxpayer money, not to mention countless hours of people's

time and effort. I'm going to tell you what happened with each juror when the judge shut everything down,

and I'm going to give you my two cents on what I think happened even beyond that in just a second.

But once testimony actually did resume after like the crazy moment, it was back to back with a neurosurgeon, graphic injury photos,

and a forensic scientist walking us through shattered tail lights, plastic fragments, and glass

debris found on John O'Keefe's clothing. And the question at the center of it all,

could any of this prove or disprove that Karen Reed killed John O'Keefe with her SUV?

Right? That's where we're at. Every piece of testimony, all these boring, boring days, what do they prove to the center question of the case?

Did she do it? Or did somebody else do it and cover it up? So let's break down the twists and the

turns and all those red plastic pieces from day 20 of the trial. Just minutes after court began,

Judge Beverly Canoni informed the courtroom that there was, quote, an issue. And it was serious enough to warrant a one-on-one sidebar conversation with every

single juror and the alternates. She did not elaborate on what the problem was, but she made it

crystal clear. No one was to speculate or discuss the case among themselves.

With little explanation, the entire courtroom, press included, was cleared out, and the live stream video was shut off.

Boom, right? He thought, like a bomb threat or what's going on?

But the jurors were questioned one at a time by the judge

with both the prosecution and the defense present. And that meant Karen Reed was sitting

right there and was able to listen in. Judge Canoni said the following, quote, an issue has come

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