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  • 1 week ago | boston.com | Abby Patkin

    Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder retrial rested their case Thursday after nearly six weeks of testimony and dozens of witnesses. Now, Read’s lawyers will begin making their case for her innocence.

  • 1 week ago | boston.com | Abby Patkin

    The prosecution’s accident reconstructionist is back on the stand Thursday in Karen Read’s murder retrial following an afternoon of painstaking cross-examination. Aperture LLC’s Judson Welcher told jurors the damage to Read’s SUV was consistent with a collision with John O’Keefe around 12:32 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022, as prosecutors allege.

  • 1 week ago | boston.com | Abby Patkin

    Karen Read‘s retrial continues in Norfolk Superior Court Wednesday with additional testimony from prosecutors’ accident reconstructionist. Aperture LLC’s Judson Welcher previously told jurors Read’s SUV accelerated in reverse at 74% throttle around the time she’s alleged to have struck and mortally wounded her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors say Read backed into O’Keefe in a drunken rage while dropping him off at an afterparty in Canton after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022.

  • 1 week ago | boston.com | Abby Patkin

    The sixth week of Karen Read’s murder retrial begins Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court, with prosecutors expected to wrap their case in the near future. Read told reporters outside the courthouse last week she expected another week in the prosecution’s case. Once prosecutors rest, Read said her lawyers would offer a “broader and deeper” presentation than they did in her first trial. “I’m anxious,” she said.

  • 2 weeks ago | boston.com | Abby Patkin

    A former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who leaked highly classified military documents said he’d do it all again if given the chance — even as he serves a 15-year prison sentence for one of the most consequential national security breaches in years. Jack Teixeira, 23, told ABC News in his first interview from prison that he doesn’t feel he betrayed his country in exposing assessments of Russia’s war in Ukraine and other closely guarded national secrets.

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Abby Patkin
Abby Patkin @AMPatkin
1 Apr 25

Stifling yawns, prospective jurors in Karen Read’s murder trial listened Tuesday as Judge Beverly Cannone offered a rundown of the basics. Then Cannone asked the question of the hour: Have you seen, heard, or talked about this case? https://t.co/pASrIYnmQI

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Abby Patkin @AMPatkin
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