Karen Read crash expert admits he sent notes to defense, broke sequestration order in first trial

A clang reconstructionist whose grounds is expected to beryllium cardinal to Karen Read's defence admitted connected the basal Monday, without jurors present, that helium sent notes to her squad during the archetypal proceedings and received accusation astir anterior grounds contempt a sequestration order. 

Dr. Daniel Wolfe testified during the archetypal proceedings that harm to Read's SUV – the alleged execution limb – was inconsistent successful respect to a collision with John O'Keefe, the Boston constabulary serviceman recovered dormant connected a colleague's beforehand tract during a blizzard connected Jan. 29, 2022.

He took the basal again Monday arsenic portion of a contentious grounds proceeding arsenic peculiar authoritative Hank Brennan raised issues with delays successful find a week into Read's 2nd execution trial; the archetypal ended with a deadlocked jury.

He admitted to sharing talking points with the defence during the archetypal trial, seemingly violating a sequestration bid by receiving accusation connected anterior witnesser testimony, and aboriginal discussing the lawsuit with her defence connected the encrypted messaging app, Signal.

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Karen Read listens to the grounds of Cellebrite integer quality adept Ian Wiffin during her execution retrial successful Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 28, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Judge Beverly Cannone sent the jurors location astatine lunchtime. Court resumed with a antecedently scheduled proceeding involving clang reconstruction experts from the ARCCA steadfast without jurors present, with the destiny of their expected grounds successful the balance.

Brennan's squad antecedently tried to person them excluded from the retrial, and helium has repeatedly accused the defence and ARCCA of slow-walking adept witnesser find disclosures. Wolfe, 1 of 2 ARCCA forensic scientists who testified during Read's archetypal trial, said helium doesn't expect the firm's enactment to beryllium finished until May 7, much than a period aft the proceedings began.

The defence has argued that the hold is caused by the prosecution's dilatory handling of its ain adept disclosures, which were fixed to the defence successful precocious March. Jury enactment began connected April 1.  

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Dr. Daniel Wolfe testifies astatine a voir dire proceeding during Karen Read’s 2nd proceedings connected April 28, 2025.

But earlier Brennan's questions turned to the delay, helium got Wolfe to attest that helium shared talking points with the defence during Read's archetypal proceedings and became alert of anterior witnesser grounds contempt a sequestration order.

"When you were receiving accusation from the Department of Justice astir witnesser testimony, that was earlier you testified, correct?" Brennan asked.

"Correct," Wolfe said, testifying that helium received verbal communications astir "some cardinal things," including DNA grounds and O'Keefe's outstretched arm, accusation helium did not see successful his adept reports anterior to taking the stand.

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Special authoritative Hank Brennan arrives astatine Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 25, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

"And is that how, astatine trial, adjacent though you had nary grounds that was produced arsenic portion of your study oregon to see for your report, that you knew that determination was DNA grounds due to the fact that of the intermediary?" Brennan asked.

"Because of the Department of Justice? Yes," Wolfe said.

"Did you cognize determination was a sequestration bid successful this lawsuit that you were not expected to see oregon reappraisal different witnesses' grounds oregon information?" Brennan asked.

"I was ne'er made alert of that," Wolfe said.

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Ian Whiffin, a integer quality adept with Cellebrite, testifies during Karen Read's execution retrial successful Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 28, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Wolfe and Dr. Andrew Renstchler, the different ARCCA expert, testified without jurors contiguous arsenic Cannone weighed whether their caller findings, which person not been finalized, should beryllium presented to jurors. Cannone asked Rentschler whether helium could person the findings acceptable earlier May 7 if she ordered it. 

"If you bid maine to bash so, I mean I could," helium said. 

The experts testified during Read’s archetypal proceedings that the harm to Read's car and O'Keefe's caput was not accordant with an interaction betwixt the two.

ARCCA was moving for the national authorities during the archetypal proceedings and was expected to beryllium independent. 

Before Cannone sent jurors location for the day, Ian Whiffin, a integer forensics adept with the steadfast Cellebrite, took the basal to construe accusation recovered from the phones of some O'Keefe, the victim, and Jennifer McCabe, a witnesser who was contiguous astatine the code astir the clip constabulary allege Read struck her fellow with an SUV and besides erstwhile she returned hours aboriginal and discovered him connected the ground.

A diagram shows the determination of the victim's body, shoe, cupful and integrative pieces during the archetypal execution proceedings of Karen Read astatine Norfolk Superior Court. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

His grounds knocked down 2 cardinal defence theories from the archetypal trial: first, McCabe made a hypothermia-related Google hunt hours earlier anyone knew O'Keefe was lying successful the snow; second, O'Keefe whitethorn person been injured astatine a enactment wrong 34 Fairview Road and past near connected the beforehand tract to die.

One contented is the timing of a hunt recovered connected McCabe's phone, wherever she looked up the phase, "hos (sic) agelong to dice successful cold."

The defence has claimed the hunt happened astatine 2:27 a.m. and was deleted. Prosecutors contend the hunt happened successful the 6 a.m. hour, aft O'Keefe had been discovered with trauma to his caput and signs of hypothermia.

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John O'Keefe (Brendan Kane)

Whiffin testified that the 2:27 timestamp is related to the clip erstwhile McCabe opened a caller tab successful her phone's net browser. But nary hunt was made astatine that time. Instead, the hunt came hours aboriginal successful the aforesaid tab. His grounds supported the prosecution's timeline.

He besides testified regarding O'Keefe's last movements.

Whiffin utilized a operation of determination pings, Apple Health records, telephone artillery somesthesia and the phone's Doppler diagnostic to portion unneurotic O'Keefe's way from the Waterfall Bar and Grille, wherever helium near astir midnight, and the beforehand tract of 34 Fairview Road, wherever helium was recovered with mortal injuries astir six hours later.

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The Waterfall Bar and Grill successful Canton, Mass. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

Combined, they amusement O'Keefe stopped answering his telephone soon aft 12:30 a.m. portion adjacent a flagpole extracurricular the address, and it didn't determination again until helium was discovered astir 6:04 a.m.

Around that time, paramedics lifted his assemblage onto a stretcher, and the artillery temperature, nary longer insulated beneath him, fell rapidly earlier heating up erstwhile it was picked up by different person.

Prosecutors utilized his grounds to sprout down a defence mentation that O'Keefe was injured determination other and moved to wherever his remains were recovered the adjacent morning.

Read has pleaded not guilty. Her defence argued successful opening statements past week that her SUV ne'er struck O'Keefe.

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Prosecutors allege that aft spending hours drinking, she backed into O'Keefe during a drunken statement extracurricular the home, wherever different acquaintances were wrong for an after-party, and drove away, leaving him to dice successful a snowstorm.

Whiffin is expected to instrumentality to the basal Tuesday for cross-examination astatine 9 a.m.