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Opening statements successful Karen Read's execution proceedings are expected to commencement Monday morning.
Read allegedly killed her fellow - Boston constabulary serviceman John O'Keefe - erstwhile she backed complete him pinch her car aft an alcohol-infused conflict during a snowy nighttime connected Jan 29, 2022, extracurricular a location in Canton, Massachusetts, according to prosecutors.
Not only has Read pleaded not blameworthy to murder, among different charges, her ineligible squad based on Read was framed by group successful nan Canton, Massachusetts, home, arsenic portion of a top-to-bottom cover-up, which is portion of an ongoing national investigation.
Her lawyers based on O'Keefe was attacked by a canine during a conflict pinch personification successful nan house. The judge ruled past week that Read's defense squad will beryllium allowed to reason personification other killed O'Keefe, but not during opening statements.
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Karen Read departs Norfolk Superior Court pursuing a time of assemblage selection, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. Read is accused of moving into her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow pinch her SUV successful nan mediate of a nor'easter and leaving him for dormant aft a nighttime of dense drinking. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
O'Keefe's assemblage was recovered successful nan snow, and he was pronounced dormant successful nan hospital, contempt life-saving measures.
Since then, nan lawsuit has conjured divisive rhetoric that divided nan Boston suburb, and included conspiracy-fueled broadside spectacles, for illustration nan apprehension of section blogger Aidan Kearney, besides known arsenic "Turtleboy."
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Kearney has been a staunch protagonist of Read and led "Free Karen" rallies, but prosecutors allege he crossed nan statement and charged him pinch respective counts of witnesser intimidation.
The judge ruled Kearney tin be nan trial. He said it was a "complete victory" successful a Facebook unrecorded watercourse aft nan proceeding past week.
Karen Read appears successful Norfolk County Superior Court for a pre-trial hearing. She is charged pinch nan execution of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Officer John O’Keefe poses for his charismatic headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is presently connected proceedings for execution aft he was recovered dormant extracurricular of a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)
O'Keefe suffered aggregate wounds, including skull fractures accordant pinch blunt-force trauma that led to bleeding successful nan brain, swollen achromatic eyes and respective lacerations and abrasions to his correct limb and hands.
But nan autopsy has been nether fastener and key, which is why forensic master Joseph Scott Morgan told Fox News Digital that nan autopsy and nan forensic investigator's grounds will beryllium pivotal successful nan trial.
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Read's high-powered defense team, including Alan Jackson, who helped Kevin Spacey get acquitted connected intersexual battle charges successful 2019, said successful tribunal documents nan investigation was "sloppy" and concealed a analyzable web of individual and romanticist relationships.
Last week, 19 jurors were selected from a excavation of astir 400 imaginable jurists aft a two-week process.
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A section rule professor said an impartial jury, pinch nan media hype and speculation, was paramount.
"The power of media, societal media, nan sidebars pinch nan turtle blogger. All nan accusation that's been going backmost and distant from nan DA's agency and nan defense team, I deliberation it's going to beryllium a agelong roadworthy to prime an impartial jury," Suffolk University Law Professor Christopher Dearborn told CBS News.
Chris Eberhart is simply a crime and US news newsman for Fox News Digital. Email tips to chris.eberhart@fox.com aliases connected Twitter @ChrisEberhart48.
