Karen Read's true-crime documentaries may impact second trial: court docs

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Karen Read's out-of-court statements, including successful fashionable true-crime TV programs, volition play a cardinal relation successful her 2nd execution proceedings successful the decease of her Boston constabulary serviceman boyfriend, John O'Keefe, according to caller tribunal filings.

Read is accused of backing her Lexus SUV into O'Keefe conscionable aft midnight connected Jan. 29, 2022, past leaving him to dice connected the crushed arsenic a blizzard swept done New England. 

They had argued that morning, past spent hours drinking unneurotic and were allegedly progressive successful a combat extracurricular different officer's location wherever an after-party was underway. She pleaded not guilty, and jurors couldn't hold by the extremity of her archetypal proceedings past year, clearing the mode for a caller trial.

Hank Brennan, a salient Massachusetts defence lawyer who was brought successful to instrumentality complaint of the lawsuit aft the archetypal proceedings ended successful a mistrial, had antecedently requested subpoenas for unpublished transcripts of interviews with Read that included her statements, including remarks near connected the cutting country level for some TV and people publications.

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A close-up of John O'Keefe snugging up   against Karen Read who is pulling down   a look   mask.

Karen Read and John O'Keefe (Karen Read)

"The suspect has made galore statements to witnesses, archetypal responders, aesculapian providers, household members, and journalists, arsenic good arsenic recorded statements connected John O'Keefe's cellphone," prosecutors wrote successful a tribunal filing unveiled Monday. "These statements scope from the defendant's contiguous impressions and authorities of caput successful the minutes and hours surrounding John O'Keefe's decease to crafted narrations, sometimes successful the beingness of counsel that recount for the defendant's mentation oregon impressions of events months and years aft the murder."

Read made waves with aggregate nationalist interviews aft the assemblage deadlocked past July, giving a mag writer entree to her erstwhile location for a play and sitting for aggregate section and nationalist TV interviews successful which she alleged that she was being framed for O'Keefe's decease by his instrumentality enforcement colleagues. More recently, she said she would've "cheered" the O.J. Simpson verdict if it were handed down today.

Critics, including the relatives of the pb researcher who Massachusetts State Police fired implicit misconduct allegations stemming from her case, telephone her media circuit an "unrelenting propaganda" run and an effort to gully attraction distant from grounds against her.

Prosecutor Hank Brennan introduces himself to jury

Prosecutor Hank Brennan introduces himself to assemblage members wrong Norfolk Superior Court during the 2nd week of the Karen Read trial, April 8, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

A abstracted find filing shows immoderate of the Read elements that Brennan's squad has turned implicit to her defense: They see "Dateline" and "20/20 episodes", a transcript of Read's interrogation for "A Body successful the Snow" connected HBO Max and interviews with her parents for the aforesaid true-crime docuseries.

Brennan's squad turned implicit 41 audio oregon video clips of interrogation statements but did not spell into circumstantial details astir each one.

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Prosecutors besides included a transcript of the caller audit of the Canton Police Department, resumes for adept witnesses and different find documents.

Read the 3 filings successful 1 PDF:

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Both sides person agreed not to telephone a Boston Magazine exertion to the witnesser stand, adjacent though her reporting whitethorn beryllium introduced astatine trial. This would exempt her from rules sequestering witnesses earlier they attest and let her to proceed covering the trial.

Karen Read and her lawyer  Alan Jackson reappraisal  assemblage   questionnaires

Defendant Karen Read and lawyer Alan Jackson reappraisal assemblage questionnaires during the 2nd time of her retrial astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 2, 2025. (Greg Derr/Pool/Patriot Ledger)

She has a petition earlier the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to flip 2 of the 3 charges against her, arguing that portion jurors ne'er announced a verdict astatine the extremity of her archetypal trial, they had cleared her of some second-degree execution and leaving the country of an mishap but got stuck connected the third, manslaughter.

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Read faces up to beingness successful situation if convicted connected the apical complaint she presently faces. Jury enactment continued Monday, and opening statements could hap immoderate time erstwhile the afloat 12 jurors and six alternates are chosen.

As of the extremity of the time connected Monday, 2 spots were open.

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