Will The US Supreme Court Intervene On Karen Read Case, Attorney Bob Motta Tells Us
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a jury almost reaches a verdict, but doesn't check the right boxes?
The Karen Read trial is on the edge of Part II, but don't hold your breath—motions are flying, and one of them just knocked on the Supreme Court's door. Tony Brueski teams up with Defense Attorney Bob Motta to unpack the legal chaos. We're talking petitions, possible delays, and a whole lot of legal gymnastics over whether double jeopardy applies when jurors say they decided—but forgot to make it official in the courtroom.
There’s drama over missing "not guilty" boxes, questionable jury instructions, and whether or not everyone involved just wanted to go home and pretend it never happened. Could a simple form error force a retrial on charges jurors allegedly already cleared her of? And why didn’t anyone just ask the jury the most obvious question?
What happens next if SCOTUS decides not to play ball?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:04.0 | The trial of Karen Reid part two, uh, it, uh, it will be starting very soon, supposedly. |
| 0:12.2 | We'll see. There could be factors that, uh, change the trajectory of this. Jury selection is |
| 0:18.4 | underway, but we've seen other trials where jury selection is underway |
| 0:21.8 | and something else becomes a hiccup and delays things. And they're certainly throwing some motions |
| 0:28.2 | out there to possibly do that, asking for a stay as it's being looked at by the, well, it's not |
| 0:33.4 | being looked at by the Supreme Court, but they're asking the Supreme Court to look at it. |
| 0:36.5 | Joining me to discuss, Bob Mata, defense attorney, host of the podcast Defense Diaries, and who's |
| 0:42.2 | also going to be following this trial live as well with his wife, Allie, and it's going to be |
| 0:49.5 | great to watch. So check out Defense Diaries for the live stream of all of that. And we'll give you |
| 0:55.3 | recaps over here. Yeah. So right now as it sits, we're getting closer to a supposed |
| 1:02.5 | start in this. But there's a lot of motions out there, including to the Supreme Court. Catch us up. |
| 1:07.2 | Where is this going? And what sort of weight are behind some of these motions? |
| 1:13.2 | So, yeah, they did file what they call a petition for writ of certiori, which is where you're |
| 1:19.8 | asking the United States Supreme Court to take a peek at what the appellate court did down there. |
| 1:26.4 | And, you know And it's tough. |
| 1:28.1 | It's tough to get the Supreme Court to say, all right, |
| 1:30.3 | we're going to take it up and we're going to look at it. |
| 1:33.8 | And so after they filed that, |
| 1:36.1 | they then filed an application for a stay, |
| 1:39.0 | which means that they're asking that they delay |
| 1:42.5 | everything that's going on at the trial court level. |
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