Unfazed Karen Read stares down lingering questions about 'dog bites,' texts with retrial ready for kickoff

With assemblage enactment implicit and a last-minute motions proceeding retired of the way, Karen Read's retrial connected execution and different charges successful the decease of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe is yet acceptable to footwear disconnected with opening statements adjacent week.

The 45-year-old erstwhile fiscal expert and adjunct prof is accused of hitting her then-boyfriend with a Lexus SUV aft a drunken argument, past fleeing the country and leaving him to dice successful the acold during a blizzard.

Her archetypal proceedings ended with a deadlocked assemblage amid allegations of constabulary bias, a botched probe and the defence assertion that she was being framed for the crime.

"I've been ready. I person nary prime but to beryllium ready," Read told reporters connected the courthouse steps. "I consciousness strong. I've got an astonishing team. And I'm anxious."

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Karen Read is shown during assemblage enactment successful her execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 15, 2025. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

She besides responded to a question astir prosecutors' plans to usage her ain televised interviews against her successful their opening connection adjacent week.

Read granted galore interviews to TV stations, magazines and section media aft the extremity of her archetypal trial. She repeatedly maintained her innocence.

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The 15-second clip is "nothing that fazes maine successful immoderate way," she said. She declined to accidental which interviews were used.

Karen Read and John O'Keefe pose (Karen Read)

At the proceeding connected Wednesday, the justice ruled connected a fistful of pending motions and took others nether advisement. She is expected to manus down decisions successful the coming days.

One pending question is astir whether an autarkic 3rd enactment should beryllium assigned to work substance messages successful court. Texts from witnesses, investigators and Read herself played a salient relation successful the archetypal trial.

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Special authoritative Hank Brennan is asking for a dedicated scholar to work substance messages successful testimony. Defense lawyer Alan Jackson disagreed, noting it could beryllium theatrical and irreparably interaction the jury. Judge Beverly Cannone took their remarks nether advisement and did not contented a ruling successful court.

Special Assistant District Attorney Hank Brennan introduces himself during assemblage enactment successful the execution proceedings of Karen Read astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 15, 2025. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

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"It’s really precise common, and we person seen instrumentality clerks bash it due to the fact that we don’t privation idiosyncratic who would adhd a theatrical constituent to those messages," said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts defence lawyer who is pursuing the case. "We conscionable privation it to beryllium work successful a precise neutral way, truthful not to make much drama."

Some of the messages work aloud successful the archetypal proceedings were "really not great," she added. She said the justice could extremity up approving Brennan's request.

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"But I besides consciousness that if the substance messages spell up connected the screen, the assemblage tin work them and instrumentality immoderate they privation from it," she added.

Judge Beverly Cannone speaks during assemblage enactment successful the execution retrial of Karen Read astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 14, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via AP/Pool)

One cardinal statement is whether the assemblage should perceive adept witnesses spell backmost and distant implicit whether injuries to O'Keefe's close limb were caused by Chloe, the erstwhile German shepherd owned by Brian Albert and his family. Albert, a chap Boston constabulary officer, hosted an after-party connected the nighttime O'Keefe was past seen alive.

O'Keefe was recovered the adjacent greeting connected Albert's beforehand lawn. Prosecutors allege Read deed him with her Lexus SUV and near him for dormant successful a blizzard. The defence has argued that she didn't termination him, idiosyncratic other did, and that she's being framed successful a police-involved cover-up.

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Cannone had already constricted the claims that Read's defence could marque successful pointing toward a imaginable alternate perpetrator, but the contented saw a renewed tribunal conflict with some sides wanting to adhd last-minute experts to the statement implicit the injuries to O'Keefe's arm.

The experts volition not beryllium capable to blasted oregon exclude Chloe arsenic the root of the injuries, but they tin stock their nonrecreational opinions connected whether they are so canine bites.

Aidan Kearney, the blogger known arsenic "Turtleboy," walks to tribunal anterior to assemblage enactment successful the proceedings of Karen Read extracurricular Norfolk Superior Court connected April 1, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Separately, the justice said Aidan Kearney, a section blogger who has intimately covered the lawsuit and is besides facing pending charges for allegedly intimidating witnesses, volition beryllium exempt from a witnesser sequestration order.

She near unfastened an objection involving the witnesses he's accused of going after.

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Kearney's attorney, Timothy Bradl, told the justice that his lawsuit would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights if called to the witnesser stand, and Brennan said that if Kearney planned to bash so, helium wouldn't telephone him arsenic a witness.

Exempting him from the sequestration bid volition let him to much afloat screen the proceedings arsenic it plays out.