Murder defendant Karen Read says she would've 'cheered' OJ Simpson verdict as she prepares for 2nd trial

Karen Read, accused of mowing down her Boston bull boyfriend, John O'Keefe, and leaving him to dice connected the crushed successful a blizzard, told an interviewer that she would person applauded OJ Simpson's acquittal connected execution charges successful the 1990s if she'd gone done the aforesaid ineligible battles she's present facing, backmost then.

"I’m not saying I judge OJ was innocent, but I judge that it was not a wholly above-board investigation," Read, 45, told Vanity Fair successful remarks published Thursday. "Now that I americium smarter, I would’ve cheered astatine that acquittal. You person to clasp cops accountable."

When the proceedings came to a verdict successful October 1995, she said, she thought his "dream team" of elite Los Angeles defence lawyers "all looked similar snake lipid salesmen."

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

Now she has her ain high-powered LA attorney, erstwhile authoritative Alan Jackson, who helped convict euphony shaper Phil Spector of murder.

Last week, Los Angeles-based erstwhile national authoritative Neama Rahmani compared Michael Proctor, the fired pb researcher successful Read's case, to the homicide detective who had a likewise unsmooth acquisition connected the basal against Simpson, calling him "the worst instrumentality enforcement witnesser [he's] seen since Mark Fuhrman successful the OJ case." 

Furhman was a erstwhile LAPD detective who was caught connected portion utilizing radical slurs. Jurors aboriginal recovered Simpson not guilty.

Proctor sent lewd substance messages astir Read that were work successful tribunal for the assemblage successful which helium wrote astir searching her telephone for nude selfies and said helium wished she would termination herself. The justice declared a mistrial little than a period later, aft jurors had deadlocked for days.

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This May 3, 1995, record photograph shows execution suspect O.J. Simpson (R) consulting with person Robert Kardashian (C) and Alvin Michelson (L), the lawyer representing Kardashian, during a proceeding successful Los Angeles.  (Vince Bucci/AFP via Getty Images)

"The defence is having a tract time here," Rahmani said. "I'm not saying Karen Read is really innocent, and this is simply a framework job, but the defence has a batch to enactment with."

While connected the witnesser basal astatine Read's archetypal trial, Proctor called his texts "juvenile" and "unprofessional" but said they bash not alteration the grounds against Read oregon the facts of the case. The assemblage deadlocked.

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Karen Read and John O'Keefe airs for an undated photograph. (Karen Read)

His woman and sister, besides named arsenic witnesses for the 2nd trial, person publically defended him arsenic a 16-year constabulary seasoned whose lone blemish came erstwhile helium was fired arsenic a effect of the texts. Read took announcement and called them out, too.

"All [their] connection did was enactment his vile behaviour backmost successful the quality cycle, and helium had to usage 2 women to bash it?" Read told Vanity Fair. "Can’t helium talk for himself?"

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Elizabeth Proctor, the erstwhile trooper's wife, told Fox News Digital that the defendant's galore media interviews are portion of an "unrelenting propaganda" run and an effort to gully attraction distant from grounds successful the case.

"What Ms. Read stated is inaccurate, per usual," she said. "Michael spoke for himself connected the basal nether oath – thing Ms. Read volition ne'er do. She volition ne'er instrumentality the basal and talk to the jurors nether oath and alternatively continues to dispersed a mendacious communicative to the media."

She noted that the charges and grounds against Read person not been changed aft a national probe, the authorities constabulary reappraisal that led to her husband's firing, and an audit into the Canton Police Department, which played a backup relation successful the probe into O'Keefe's death.

Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor takes the basal during Karen Read's archetypal execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court.  (Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Read is asking the Supreme Court to flip 2 of the 3 charges she faces the 2nd clip around, arguing treble jeopardy, but assemblage enactment is already nearing competition, which could spot opening statements aboriginal adjacent week. 

Sixteen jurors were selected arsenic of the extremity of the time Thursday – 12 to deliberate, with 4 alternates – but Judge Beverly Cannone said she wanted different 2 alternates added to the panel, a tribunal authoritative told Fox News Digital. The process resumes Monday.

If Read is convicted of the apical complaint of second-degree murder, she could look beingness successful prison.

Judge Beverly Cannone presides implicit assemblage enactment during the Karen Read proceedings astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Thursday, April 18, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. (David McGlynn/New York Post via AP, Pool)

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If her petition earlier the nation's apical tribunal is successful, the lone remaining complaint would beryllium manslaughter.

Prosecutors allege that successful a drunken combat aft a nighttime of drinking, Read backed into O'Keefe astatine astir 25 mph, knocking him to the crushed earlier driving distant without him. A terrible snowstorm blasted the portion that night, and helium was discovered connected chap Boston Police Officer Brian Albert's beforehand tract the adjacent morning.

While O'Keefe's mode of decease was ruled "undetermined," the origin was a operation of trauma to the caput and hypothermia, according to the aesculapian examiner's autopsy.

Witness Brian Albert testifies during the proceedings of Karen Read astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, May 10, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

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Read has denied the charges and has pleaded innocent. She claims that idiosyncratic other killed O'Keefe and dragged him into the acold and she is being framed.

Her lawsuit prompted residents of the community, Canton, Massachusetts, to committee an audit of their constabulary department. A study connected the auditor's findings was published earlier this month.

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Karen Read arrives for assemblage enactment for her proceedings astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

It recovered nary grounds that Canton constabulary had been progressive successful a conspiracy to framework Read, but the pb bureau connected the lawsuit was the Massachusetts State Police.

Proctor, the pb investigator, mislaid his occupation with the Massachusetts State Police successful March aft an interior reappraisal into his handling of the lawsuit kicked disconnected pursuing Read's archetypal trial. 

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The disciplinary study recovered that helium had conducted himself unprofessionally, shared confidential accusation with radical who were not privy to instrumentality enforcement accusation connected the case, and drunk intoxicant connected the job. He was not accused of concocting grounds against Read.