New Karen Read Timeline Statements. Cross of Aperture Expert, the wrong date? | Case Brief
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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Day 19 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on May 20, 2025. Defense Attorney, Robert Alessi, continued cross examining Shanon Burgess. Questions arose regarding the accuracy of dates and timeline in the expert's analysis, with errors of 24 hours. Burgess kept saying that the event happened the night of January 29-30th when in reality is it was January 28-29th.
Shanon's analysis of call logs, text streams, and vehicle data was scrutinized. There were concerns about the use of approximate times and potential confirmation bias. The expert did not have the raw data for the techstream information, he instead got it from Welcher's report.
During redirect examination, Special Prosecutor, Hank Brennan, attempted to clarify Burgess' credentials and data interpretation. Pointing out that he didn't need that degree to perform his job and that work life balance made it a challenge to complete his degree.
On Re-Cross Examination, Alessi pointed out that in a federal court filing in Texas, Burgess' resume stated he was anticipating a BGS - Bachelor of General Science in 2024. There is no Bachelor of General Science degree in Alabama and he has been pursuing this degree since 2008.
The use of the Commonwealths presenting video and audio clips, especially the voicemail, appears to be related to establishing a timeline of Karen Read's movements and actions around the time of John O'Keefe's death. The defense may use it to show her actions were consistent, while the prosecution may use it to point out inconsistencies. The 12:25/12:30 timeframe she gives for John's passing may be challenged given her audio from the voicemail at 12:41AM.
Later in the day, Christina Hanley, a trace analyst expert witness from the lab testified about a mechanical match on glass. The court adjourned early after sidebar discussions. We'll get back to her on Day 20.
RESOURCES
Retrial Day 10 - Voicemails - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2vEF0vxG2w
What You Need to Know About the Retrial - https://youtu.be/89Jpa8vz1RQ
Karen Read Retrial Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbUyvZas7gKOJlfL__9F027hlETVU-vo
Karen Read Trial - 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbUyvZas7gKUeCUzApgsEuQRXu5IXeTS
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. It's time for a case brief, keeping you in the loop with the cases you care about most, just more briefly. |
| 0:05.4 | If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now, let's get into it. |
| 0:10.2 | It's time to go to court for day 19 on May 20th, 2025 of the Karen Reed retrial. |
| 0:15.6 | Yesterday's cross-examination was one of just the wildest things. |
| 0:20.3 | The expert not only admitted to errors in the |
| 0:24.1 | way that they approached their task, they admitted to errors in their May 8th report, which I thought |
| 0:30.5 | was an update report. It seems like it was a pretty thorough extra report, said that they'd never, done that before, and also purported on their |
| 0:42.6 | company website, on LinkedIn, and on their company's CV to have a degree that is not on the |
| 0:48.6 | CV they provided to the Commonwealth and the defense. Does it matter if they have the degree that they say they have online and not to the defense? |
| 0:57.0 | The degree is not the point. |
| 0:59.0 | It's the holding yourself out as if you have it elsewhere. |
| 1:03.0 | That's the point. |
| 1:05.0 | And then once you get there, everything is viewed with less generosity because then you get to the issue |
| 1:14.8 | with them asking the Commonwealth to do a bunch more work to download a bunch more chips or to |
| 1:20.0 | re-download the chips or to try to redownload the chips to try to put the boards back into |
| 1:26.0 | Karen Reed's Lexus because his fundamental error was he thought |
| 1:31.6 | that they had not downloaded fully because he misinterpreted the amount of storage that |
| 1:36.2 | they had and how big those downloads should be. |
| 1:39.2 | So when you're relying on a tech expert who is telling you that they don't understand the storage on the chips, |
| 1:46.9 | I think it's hard to get beyond that for many. But he's back on cross today. We'll see if this |
| 1:53.8 | will be the only witness today because when you're a lessee trying to finish this cross is hard |
| 1:58.4 | because you never know what else you might unearth. And these are all your slides, correct, sir? Correct. |
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