Wild Cross of Prosecution Key Expert. The New Report, Typos and Misunderstandings? | Case Brief

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

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Day 18 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on May 19, 2025. Shanon Burgess, a Digital Forensic Examiner from Aperture, is witness number 35. His testimony revolves around correlating the timing of events from Karen Read's Lexus vehicle data and John O'Keefe's phone location data.

Burgess provided detailed explanations of Lexus infotainment system data (Lexus clock and techstream data), key cycles, triggering events (like a three-point turn), and how this data was correlated with the data from John O'Keefe's iPhone. Time variances between the Lexus clock and the iPhone clock and the significance of these variances in relation to when O'Keefe's phone was locked.

Defense Attorney, Robert Alessi, strongly challenged Burgess's credibility during cross examination by highlighting discrepancies and potential misrepresentations in his CV (resume), Aperture website information, and LinkedIn profile concerning his educational background and degrees.

Questions were also raised about a report Burgess submitted on May 8th, at the request of the prosecution. Burgess stated he did it on his own initiative due to the report from the Defense's expert. It was thought that he did it at the request of the prosecutor but attributed the "per your request" statement to a copy-paste error.

Alessi further challenged Burgess's understanding of data storage (megabits vs. megabytes) and the completeness of data extractions from the vehicle's chips. This could significantly impact the jury's perception of Shanon's testimony and the prosecution's case. The errors and inconsistencies in his statements, reports, and qualifications raise serious questions about the reliability of his expert opinions. There's more cross examination to come on Day 19.

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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,
0:03.8	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. We are on day 18. It's May 19th. We're always just off by one this trial,
0:17.8	but it is day 18, May 19th. It's Monday. Remember this week is a little bit
0:23.0	of a different week because the court has some time off. So Thursday, Friday, the court will have
0:28.4	a half day Thursday. Friday is off and then Monday is off of court. So there's a four day weekend
0:32.1	there. But we should have full days, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. As we're getting, it seems to
0:37.1	the close of the Commonwealth's
0:38.7	case. What is left in the Commonwealth's case is the big question because I don't think they're
0:44.1	going to call anyone else that was at the waterfall or at 34 Fairview at this point because
0:48.2	it would be really out of sync with where they're at in the evidence. Does that mean they're not
0:53.5	going to? No, it doesn't.
0:54.9	But could they? Sure. It would just be weird. I don't know because I watched the first trial
0:59.8	and all the motions between that trial and this trial. If this trial is resonating differently
1:04.6	with the clips from Karen Reed, I think that's a big change and with how pared down the evidence
1:10.5	is. We can't even really call it the butt dial trial because the extent of the butt dials hasn't come in before this jury.
1:16.6	A few, yes, but the extent of it, no. There's a lot they don't know yet.
1:21.6	So will they? I don't know. Can the Commonwealth choose to do that?
1:25.6	Yes, they can. The Commonwealth
1:27.7	can choose to not call witnesses all day long. The defense can choose to call them, but the
1:31.5	Commonwealth can choose to not call witnesses all day long. I don't know what we're going to do
1:35.8	this week, but I imagine there's more scientific evidence ahead of us because I know from the last
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