Prosecutors in the retrial of Karen Read, accused of fatally striking her boyfriend with her SUV, say new data may be recovered from the vehicle. The data could potentially help prove or disprove their case.
's SUV , which they say fatally struck her boyfriend John O'Keefe in January of 2022, may still be recovered, and they say it could help prove — or disprove — their case ahead of the retrial.
"This evidence may be exculpatory or inculpatory," the prosecution writes in its filing, dated Thursday, signed byAttorney Peter Elikann discusses the major question that Week 7 of the Karen Read murder trial ended on: how the taillight on Karen Read's SUV was damaged. Plus, we dig into the prosecution's strategy on the order of witnesses and how many jurors remain.
The defense called as witnesses experts who did a separate crash reconstruction for a third party — revealed in a hearing away from the jury to be Massachusetts' federal prosecutors — who disagreed with the prosecution's conclusion from the evidence of how Read would have fatally injured O'Keefe. They have also suggested that pieces of the SUV's broken taillight were placed at the scene to incriminate Read.
The prosecution now says that the data initially recovered from the SUV was far less than would be expected and that the data their expert expects to be able to access would offer a more precise location of where Read's SUV was as she dropped O'Keefe off at a friend's house on Jan. 29.
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