(13 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 12 June 2025
1. Wide of Karen Read arriving in court, accompanied by her team of attorneys
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Marlborough, Massachusetts – 11 June 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Medwed, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University:
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"So, the prosecution case proceeded over 23 days and they called 38 different witnesses, including first responders, family members of John O’Keefe, the decedent, the medical examiner, forensic experts, and friends of Karen Read. The prosecution theory was that Karen Reed, while in a drunken state after a night of excessive alcohol consumption, hit her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, left him to die in the snow. The prosecution case culminated in the testimony of a crash reconstruction expert who tried to posit that, in fact, John O’Keefe’s injuries were consistent with being struck by a car. And then at the very end of the prosecution case, the special prosecutor, Hank Brennan, played a clip of an interview that Karen Read had done in which she acknowledged the possibility that she might have struck John O’Keefe."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 12 June 2025
3. Close up of signage expressing support for Karen Read and her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe that she is accused of killing
4. Close up of signage outside the Norfolk County Superior Court building where Read’s trial is underway
5. Tilt-up view of the golden dome atop the courthouse
POOL
Dedham, Massachusetts – 12 June 2025
6. Norfolk County Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone discusses trial logistics with prosecutors and defense attorneys
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Dedham, Massachusetts – 12 June 2025
8. Read leaves the courthouse and answers some questions from reporters
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New Marlborough, Massachusetts – 11 June 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Medwed, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University:
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"The defense case revolves around the theory that Karen Read never struck John O’Keefe and left him to die in the snow, that instead she dropped him off at this house party in Canton. He went inside and got into a fight. The people with whom he fought, then dragged him outside and left him to die in the snow. To develop this theory, the defense called 11 witnesses culminating in a crash expert on Wednesday that, in essence, is a battle of the expert-witnesses type of strategy. This crash expert was juxtaposed against the prosecution’s own crash reconstruction expert. The goal of the defense here is just to create reasonable doubt. It’s important to keep in mind that the prosecution bears the entire burden of proof in a criminal case. They have to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 22 April 2025
10. Close up of signage claiming that state criminal justice officials framed Read and committed other injustices against other innocent victims
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 12 June 2025
11. Read walks to her SUV
12. Read boards her SUV
13. Close up of Read saying goodbye to supporters as her SUV drives away
STORYLINE:
Lawyers in the second murder trial of Karen Read are set to give their closing arguments after weeks of testimony.
The highly divisive case has hinged on the prosecution’s theory of jaded love turned deadly.
That is countered by a defense claim that a cast of tight-knit Boston area law enforcement killed a fellow police officer.
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