Revealing Jury Questions in Karen Read Retrial! Will they reach a verdict? | Case Brief

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

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Day 35 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on June 17, 2025. We are on the 3rd day of Verdict Watch and the jurors had questions!

1) They asked about the specific time frame for the OUI (Operating Under the Influence) charge, whether it was 12:45 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. The court responded that the jurors have all the evidence and are the sole fact-finders.

2) They asked if video clips of Karen Read's interviews were evidence and how they could consider them. The court affirmed that the videos are evidence and should be weighed like any other evidence. However, before considering any such statement, the jury must determine beyond a reasonable doubt that Read made the statement voluntarily, freely, and rationally.

3) The jury asked if convicting on a sub-charge (specifically offense two, number five, referring to the OUI) would automatically convict on the overall charges. The court introduced and read an amended verdict slip to clarify the process.

Later, the jury sent another question while the court was deliberating on how to answer the first 3 questions.

4) They were asking if finding "not guilty" on two charges but being unable to agree on a third, results in a hung jury on all three or just one. The court's initial inclination was to respond that it was a theoretical question and could not be answered, as jurors are not to be concerned with the consequences of their verdict. The defense objected, arguing that it was a question about how to report a verdict, not its consequences, and that the jury instructions already addressed this. Ultimately, the court decided to respond that it was a theoretical question and thus unanswerable.

No Verdict was made at the end of day, we'll see what happens on Day 36.

RESOURCES

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,
0:03.9	just more briefly. If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now,
0:08.7	let's get into it. It's Tuesday. It's day 35. The jury has questions. They're all of us. I have questions.
0:18.9	The jury has questions. We have questions.
0:22.9	So what happened in court before we went live is that the court read the questions in open court.
0:28.2	The attorneys are having time to prepare a response for that because both sides get time to prepare a response.
0:35.0	So the court said the jury have questions. They all went to sidebar.
0:38.8	The attorneys and everyone got to read the questions for the defense, the attorneys and Karen
0:43.1	Reed for the prosecution, the prosecutors. Then the court put them on the record and we are waiting
0:47.8	for the response to be given to the jurors. These are substantive questions that indicate that
0:53.6	this jury is working
0:54.9	through the verdict sheets and has gotten through a substantial amount of the verdict sheets.
0:59.9	That's what these questions are. Whenever you get questions about the verdict sheets like this,
1:04.9	you know that they are working.
1:06.4	Counsel, what I'd like to do is I'm just going to read the questions to you now.
1:11.6	So please take your seats.
1:13.6	So I'm going to read the questions.
1:15.6	I'm going to have the mocked.
1:17.6	Then I will take a short recess, let you all talk about it, and then come back.
1:24.6	Thank you.
1:25.6	So.
1:26.6	All right. So three questions three questions from the jury the first one is
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