Will The Jury Believe Karen Read's Conspiracy Claims In Her Second Trial, Attorney Eric Faddis Gives Insight
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Did a dog, a disgraced cop, and a shadowy man from the night all somehow collide to create the perfect storm in the Karen Read case—or is this just a courtroom fever dream on steroids?
As jury selection looms for Karen Read's retrial, the legal circus is in full swing. Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to dissect a case that’s less about facts and more about wild theories and eyebrow-raising legal maneuvers. The judge has thrown some curveballs: third-party culprits are back on the table—but only some of them—and the defense is stuck playing legal Twister trying to connect Brian Albert, Brian Higgins, a mysterious night-walker, and an alleged dog attack into one coherent story. Spoiler alert: it’s not coherent.
Meanwhile, an investigator who's been fired is still being called to testify, and the defense seems to be playing the old “throw everything at the wall” game, hoping something—anything—sticks. But is confusion a strategy, or just chaos dressed in a suit?
Is the defense actually building reasonable doubt, or just burning time until they can hope for another mistrial?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:04.0 | You've ever watched a trial and thought, wait, what just happened? |
| 0:09.0 | And why is the judge letting that fly? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, then welcome to the Karen Reid Circus. |
| 0:17.0 | It's a case, but it's more of a circus, where legal strategy and courtroom chess are happening |
| 0:21.7 | in full public view. Just days before opening statements in her second trial, the judge handed |
| 0:26.7 | down rulings that could shift the entire narrative. The defense can now officially point the finger |
| 0:30.9 | at others, but not everyone. The prosecution is trying to block some of the defense's biggest |
| 0:35.5 | talking points from trial one. |
| 0:42.5 | And the lead investigator, well, yeah, he's been fired, but he's still going to testify. |
| 0:44.7 | It's not just a trial. |
| 0:47.5 | It's starting to look like the full-blown credibility war. |
| 0:49.1 | Eric Fatt is joining us. |
| 0:57.1 | Eric, here's the table setter in a case where the same evidence is being regarded with totally different framing. How much does legal strategy actually change the verdict odds here? Can |
| 1:02.3 | relitigating the case with tighter rules and sharper tactics lead to a totally different |
| 1:08.5 | outcome when the facts are, you know, essentially still the same? |
| 1:13.1 | It can, Tony. You know, we're dealing with the same core set of facts. That's not going to change. |
| 1:19.0 | But we have a new prosecutor. We have potentially new experts. We have limitations on defenses. |
| 1:24.9 | And we have a bunch of public statements the defendant has made since the last |
| 1:30.2 | mistrial. And you've got a belief that those things could turn the tables in this case and really |
| 1:36.7 | make it look a lot different than trial one. Third party culprits, it's still in there. I think |
| 1:43.4 | everybody expected it to be in some way |
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