Proctor's Texts. Who was in the Sallyport with Read's SUV? False Memory? Dr. Russell testifies. | Case Brief

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

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Day 25 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on June 2, 2025. During week seven of the trial, the defense is currently presenting its case, and they are keeping in mind that the prosecution will have rebuttal witnesses.

Judge Cannone allowed Former Trooper Michael Proctor's texts to be admitted into evidence while being read by his childhood friend, Jonathan Diamandis. When the texts messages began to get really egregious, the witness didn't feel comfortable reading it allowed so Special Prosecutor, Hank Brennan, read them allowed while the witness confirmed what was said. This didn't offer for the truth of the matter but instead, focusing on his state of mind and potential bias in the investigation.

A key witness, Kelly Dever, a former Canton police officer, testified about seeing Chief Burkowitz and Brian Higgins with Karen Reed's SUV for a long time the night of John O'Keefe's death. She later claimed this was a false memory influenced by a timeline. She also mentioned being interviewed by the FBI and being threatened with perjury by the defense team.

Dr. Marie Russell, a dog bite expert, discussed John O'Keefe's injuries to his right arm. Dr. Russell believes the injuries are consistent with a dog attack and not with a motor vehicle accident. The cross-examination of Dr. Russell is ongoing, focusing on her expertise, marketing, and opinions. Cross examination will continue on Day 26!

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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,
0:03.9	just more briefly. If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now,
0:08.6	let's get into it. It is day 25 of the Care and Reed retrial. It is Monday, June 2nd. Happy Pride.
0:16.7	We are now into the defense case in chief, which means the defense is calling their witnesses.
0:22.3	We know that unlike last trial, the Commonwealth says that they have some rebuttal witness.
0:26.0	Even when the defense rests, we are not done with this trial.
0:28.8	And the judge is not ready to send it to the jury yet because we are going to have some rebuttal commonwealth witnesses after the defense rests.
0:35.8	So we've got at least another week or two, maybe a little bit more.
0:40.7	We are in week seven. The jury was qualified for eight. So we're getting into the critical timing
0:47.7	of getting this trial done before the jury starts getting way too cranky after eight weeks of
0:52.2	trials. So we are in week seven. It is day 25. It is June 2nd.
0:57.3	It is pride. It is all the things. And where we left off on Friday is that the judge had not
1:03.0	made a ruling regarding the trooper proctor text messages. I believed that the judge said that
1:09.2	they would start with that this morning.
1:11.2	So that's what I'm planning on us seeing first.
1:15.3	So let's do all of that first.
1:18.3	We've resolved the matter with Mr. Brennan.
1:21.6	That would have been the subject of that.
1:23.1	Okay.
1:23.6	Great.
1:24.1	Thank you very much.
1:25.6	So I appreciate getting the redacted text messages
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