RAW COURT AUDIO: PART 2-Karen Read Hearing Begins With Heated Legal Battle Over Expert Testimony
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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Summary
Prosecutors took aim at one of the defense’s forensic experts, arguing that their conclusions were “forensically and scientifically unsound.” They are pushing to exclude the expert from testifying in Read’s upcoming retrial, a move that could significantly impact the defense’s case.
Read, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of striking O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm outside a Canton, Massachusetts, home. The defense has maintained that she is being framed and that the investigation into O’Keefe’s death was flawed.
The prosecution insists that the forensic evidence supports their claim that Read intentionally struck O’Keefe with her vehicle after a night of drinking. However, the defense argues that O’Keefe’s injuries are not consistent with being hit by a car and that key evidence points to another cause of death.
The case has garnered national attention, with Read’s supporters questioning law enforcement’s handling of the investigation. The defense has accused police of protecting certain individuals and failing to properly follow up on alternate theories.
With the retrial looming, both sides are preparing for an intense legal showdown. The prosecution’s fight to exclude the defense expert signals how crucial forensic evidence will be in determining Read’s fate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special report from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Tony Burski, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:10.3 | We're going to go to the courtroom where a hearing for Karen Reid took place this week |
| 0:15.3 | as prosecutors seek to ban a defense data experts and their work that they call |
| 0:20.6 | forensically and scientifically |
| 0:22.8 | unsound. Let's go to the courtroom right now for that hearing. |
| 0:26.3 | Any proper data forensic investigator to question the integrity of the data. |
| 0:34.9 | If you turn to, Your Honor, Mr. Whiffin's very long December 20 key point. |
| 0:42.3 | However, this requires authentication of the original hash value, which is not possible with great key extractions, |
| 0:52.3 | as the PDF containing the extraction hash value is unsigned. |
| 0:59.0 | Therefore, this hash value could be used as a suggestion of authentication. |
| 1:07.0 | That's all a fancy camouflage way of saying, Mr. Whiffin saying, I can't validate this hash value because of the way Trooper Garino processed it because he didn't do it, Mr. Grino,iro Giro, the right way when he got. |
| 1:30.3 | And why is this of concern? |
| 1:33.3 | Add to this point that's conceding that the hash value in this data cannot be validated. |
| 1:40.3 | How did the defense get this? |
| 1:43.3 | When Mr. Gourino used the celebrate UFed reader, all he turned over in the beginning was the |
| 1:50.0 | UFED reader report. |
| 1:51.0 | He didn't turn over the data, the full, so Mr. Green had to ask for the data. |
| 1:58.0 | Then what happens, misstep number two, |
| 2:01.2 | Chupor Green only provides a PDF of the hash value. He used Gray Key, which was a mistake, |
| 2:10.6 | because Gray Key you can't get the original hash value. Mr. Green had to go back a second time and say, no, no, no, we don't want just a PDF. |
| 2:23.3 | We want the full extraction. |
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