Trooper Bukhenik: Proctor Wasn’t Lead — Then Admits Reprimand Over Texts | Case Briefs

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

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Day 12 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on May 8, 2025. Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik was the only witness to take the stand as he walked in with bins of evidence. There was confusion regarding John O'Keefe's sneakers being initially misidentified a being the one from from 34 Fairview versus from the hospital. Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan and Bukhenik talked briefly in the beginning about Proctor, calling him Mr. Proctor instead of Trooper Proctor but we know Defense Attorney Alan Jackson will call him Former Trooper Proctor.

Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik explained that there was an investigation against him due to failure to properly Supervise Michael Proctor. His punishment was that he lost 5 vacation days. He continues to work in homicide and has not been demoted from Sargent. When Bukhenik read the text message thread from Proctor, which contained horrible messages that he said he acknowledged with a thumbs up emoji, we can only image what was going through the jurors minds.

Bukhenik presented a video timeline of Karen Read drinking at CF McCarthy's and The Waterfall before we got to Cross Examination!

Sgt. Bukhenik refused to call Proctor the Lead Investigator of this case and said he was only a "Case Agent' and/or "Case Officer." He was questioned about the integrity of the investigation and whether Michael Proctor's involvement tainted it, to which he responded that the investigation was done with honor and integrity. When asked if Proctor handled the case with honor and integrity, Bukhenik relented and only said yes with integrity.

Access to evidence, specifically John O'Keefe's clothing, was discussed, noting that "anyone with a key card" had access to the room where it was stored for six days.

The timing and documentation of evidence collection, particularly clothing and items from 34 Fairview, were questioned. It was noted that reports about the searches weren't written until November 4th, 2023, despite the events happening in February 2022!

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, just more briefly.
0:05.2	If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now, let's get into it.
0:10.4	Today is day 12. It is Thursday, May 8th, and we are in the retrial of Karen Reed, 12 days in. And I have to wonder if the jury is starting to ask themselves,
0:26.7	why don't we know what happened to John O'Keefe?
0:30.4	Yesterday we spent the majority of the day talking about Jen McCabe's cell phone search.
0:36.8	And then at the end of the day, we saw a clip of
0:38.9	Karen Reid saying essentially, Jen, either I'm going down or you are. So does the jury interpret that
0:45.8	as, oh, wow, the defense might be pushing this on Jen or does the jury sit there and go,
0:52.0	do we need to think more about Jen? Because so much of the testimony
0:55.9	has circled back to Jen McCabe's name. Jen said this. Jen told them this. Jen Googled that.
1:03.8	And yesterday I said, are we ever going to get a time of when they think these Google searches
1:08.6	happened? And yesterday we got when the Commonwealth thinks those Google searches happened. And yesterday we got when the Commonwealth thinks
1:12.2	those Google searches happened.
1:14.2	And what we saw from the Commonwealth's expert
1:16.5	was a chart really quickly that went through
1:19.0	the auto fill population, how to digest food.
1:22.2	And then we saw the how long T.I.
1:24.7	And then we saw the house long.
1:26.8	And she said those happened between 623 and 624 a.m.
1:31.5	on January 29th, 2022. We know that that will be taken issue with by the defense expert,
1:37.1	but we are just not there yet, but they did put times to those at 623 and 624 in the morning.
1:42.9	And we have, I'm sure, a full day of court. They started a bit
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