Six weeks and dozens of witnesses, prosecutors in the state of Massachusetts re -sponsored Karen, which she read on the charge of killing on the death of her boyfriend, who was widely published three years ago.
While the theory presented by Public Prosecutor Hank Brennan was the same that was presented by the assistant public prosecutor who previously tried the case – I read, drunk and angry, John Okev hit her cars for Lexus SUVs and left him to die on January 29, 2022 – there were some noticeable changes from the first reading trial, which ended with the trial of Hung Gori last.
The absence was high -level witnesses who were the key to defense allegations that the reading was framing. Also missing, the former Massachusetts state soldier who led the investigation of Okif’s death and was expelled after the appearance of misconduct in the first trial.
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Another noticeable change was the role of reading, which maintained its innocence, itself. In addition to speaking to correspondents outside the courtroom, her words were regular at the Brennan show, which included a series of interview clips that show what Brennan described as a “campaign” to read public data.
Reading lawyers are expected to start making their case on Friday.
The main witness tries to re -create the scene
The final claim was one of the most important. No cameras have taken the events that led to the death of Okif, and no witnesses claimed that they saw what happened in 34 Verfio Rudd – the house in Canton, south of Boston, where Okif, 46, was found in the front courtyard shortly after 6 am on January 29.
But Godson Welcher, a vital mechanical engineer and expert in the rebuilding of accidents, saw that the data from the reading 2021 Lexus showed that at 12:32, outside 34 Ferfio, the car pushed the front 34 feet, then reflected 53 feet. He said that the SUV was traveling about 24 miles per hour, with a 74 percent suffocating.
Although there was no vehicle data to support Brennan’s claim of collision, Wilsher witnessed that the rupture on the right okive arm was “consistent” with injuries caused by the back tail light broken on SUVs.
Welcher witnessed that its length and weight approached O’keefe- with a length of about 6 feet and 220 pounds-and legislation was shown to show how this collision could appear. In one video clip, Welcher wore similar clothes as O’keefe from January 29-Jeshens, shirt, baseball-hat-core while Lexus, which was the same model and year that Read backed him at a speed of 2 miles per hour.
Welcher also fell in the defense claim that the broken tail light came from a different collision on January 29. While Read left her house at about 5 am to search for Okif, she was in a state of panic, and she supported Lexus in Chevrolet. The video was on the camera that was played in the court on the accident.
But Welcher witnessed that the video analysis showed that it was driving less than 1 mile per hour at the time and there was no evidence of any harm to the two compounds.
“This effect was not broken or broken by the tail light,” Wilsher said.
Who did not call the testimony?
Michael Proutept, the former case agent and agent of the case, who managed to investigate the death of Okif, was included in the list of potential witnesses in the prosecution. In the first trial, Protect spent hours on the platform and admitted that the comments he made for friends, family and supervisors about reading were unconscious and “unnecessary” for her. But the prosecutors did not contact him to testify in the retrial.
The Massachusetts State Police, which was unfamiliar in March after an internal investigation found that he violated the agency’s rules by sending insulting messages and sharing the secret investigation details with law enforcement employees.
Proutept testified that his behavior did not harm the investigation. He did not publicly comment on his termination, but his family criticized the former employer, saying that he was an unfair scapegoat. The former supervisor witnessed this month that Prouterter spent “honor and integrity”.
“I think all people have biases,” the censor. Yuri Bokhenik told jury. “Especially in this case, they did not affect the outcome of the investigation.”
Boachnik admitted that he was partially disciplined for his failure to oversee Broutist adequately and lost five days of vacation.
Proctor was listed as a possible defense witness, who accused him of bias and manipulated evidence.
Two other people played a major role in the first trial – Brian Albert and Brian Higgins – were included in the list of prosecution witnesses, but they were not called to testify.
Albert, a retired Boston police sergeant, lived with his family at 34 Verfio at the time of Okif’s death and was a gathering at his home on January 29, Ociv’s plans to attend. Prosecutors – Albert – said that Okif did not reach the party and no one saw it in that morning at home.
But the defense claimed that Okif entered the Albert’s house, was beaten, bitten by the German sponsor of the family and dragged him abroad, where he died. They referred to Higgins, an agent with the American alcohol office, tobacco, firearms and explosives that were in the assembly, as a potential conspiracy in this alternative theory of the issue.
In the weeks before the death of Okif, a series of text messages that were presented as evidence that Higgins joking with reading and appearing frustrated when you don’t talk more about what you want from him. Lawyers said that this tension probably pushed the battle that led to the death of Okif. (Through their lawyer, both men denied his involvement.)
Albert and Higgens are included on the defense list for potential witnesses.
What do Karen say?
The reading was unusually explicit with journalists, and Brennan showed a series of clips from the interviews she presented to enhance the prosecution theory of Okif’s death.
In one of the clip, which was displayed during the opening data on April 22, Read was arrested to tell “Dateline” that it could have “a mark” was placed on the knee knee “and his inability.
In another clip, it was shown earlier this month, was arrested as she was “discovering an investigation” about the moment when she found O’keefe at the 34 FairView courtyard. She wondered loudly if she could run over his foot when she started driving from Albert’s house.
“It is almost where I left it, so yes when I found him I was thinking, did you love him somehow?” She said.
In another series of clips that were presented as evidence last month, Read was shown publicly about drinking it. She and Awkal were in two wattars before she went to Albert’s house, and in an interview with “20/20”, she was asked whether she was satisfied with driving after four drinks.
“Yes,” she answered.
In a separate clip, a Boston magazine correspondent told she drank a “natural amount” – the vodka stimulant every 40 minutes.
Outside the court last week, he was asked to read if she had any reaction to the videos.
“No,” she said.
