State’s Timeline vs. Defense Doubts: The Jury Hears Both | Karen Read Trial Day 19

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The prosecution says Karen Read’s SUV was reversing at the exact moment John O’Keefe last used his phone — and their digital expert says the car’s own data proves it. On Day 19 of the Karen Read trial, jurors heard from forensic analyst Shanon Burgess again. Today, under re-direct examination, he broke down the Techstream event logged by Read’s Lexus and explained how it lined up with O’Keefe’s final phone activity. But as his timeline came under fire, so did his credibility.. again.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Bannfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious.
0:09.0	Today we're breaking down day 19 of testimony in the Karen Reed trial.
0:13.0	And once again, all eyes were on the timeline.
0:18.0	Because according to prosecutors, the digital breadcrumbs tell a story that Karen
0:23.2	Reid backed into her boyfriend, police officer John O'Keefe, as he was standing outside of 34
0:30.1	Fairview Road. But how solid is that timeline? And more importantly, how credible is the expert who gave that timeline to them?
0:40.8	Because yesterday, that expert got cooked.
0:45.1	I mean, if you watched Shannon Burgess yesterday on the stand,
0:50.3	the defense attorneys basically eviscerated him.
0:55.5	And look, this is a mean game.
0:58.3	When you suggest that you're an expert and you take the stand to give expert testimony, your credentials need to be airtight.
1:09.6	And yesterday, the defense showed that this prosecution expert was no expert.
1:15.1	It was like, frankly, embarrassing, uncomfortable. I felt bad for this guy. And I also wondered how, in
1:23.2	God's name, did the Commonwealth not know that the expert they hired and were putting on the stand
1:31.0	was going to be eviscerated by the defense for the credentials he did not have yet said he did?
1:37.8	It's a timeline issue. They're trying to line up Karen's Lexus data with John O'Keefe's data because he was actually being followed
1:49.0	by his Ways app, right? So the data has to match up. The timelines between the two have to match up.
1:58.0	And if the expert that's definitive in saying that those timelines match up,
2:04.4	well, we need to know how good he is as an expert. And when court picked up Tuesday morning,
2:09.6	Shannon Burgess, the Commonwealth's digital forensics expert, was back on the stand. And Karen's
2:14.8	defense lawyer, Bob Alessi, was back ripping him a new one, picking
2:20.4	apart the state's timeline. He opened by challenging the witness on a simple but telling
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