After nearly eight weeks testimony, for Massachusetts prosecutors and defense lawyers Karen Reid It is expected that he is near the end of the death of his lover, John O'Keefe for his closing argument to the gamblers on Friday.
The prosecutors have accused the Boston police officer O'Keef, while drinking with friends in January 2022 with friends during one night, alleging that he hit O'Kif while driving in the reverse and left him to die outside a house in Canton, Massachusetts.
Read-The first test of which ended with a hung jury-emphasizes his innocence, and he has not blamed for the second degree killing, leaving the scene of intoxicated vehicles and a conflict scene.
Read, 45, claimed to be a cover-up target, alleging off-duty law inside that house, was responsible for O'Keef's death and conspired to frame it. But the test focuses more widely on reducing the police investigation and offering alternative principles of gamblers, which can kill O'Kif, in addition to the reed's SUV.
In fact, defense lawyers indicated on Thursday that they would not argue a so-called “third-party criminal” defense. Instead, the judge would allow them to argue that the crime site was not safe, to raise questions about the evidence of investigation and prejudice custody.
Closing arguments marks not one, but top of two tests on Friday. Divided these suburbs South of Boston Better part of three yearsGiving birth to a vocal contingent of court viewers, who fiercely advocate for the defendant, police resonate their allegations of corruption and chanting, “Read free Karen.”
Each side will get one hour and 15 minutes on Friday to cover its affairs. The prosecutors will try to synthesize several threads that they discovered in a compelling story, while the defense gamblers would work for sufficient “proper doubt” to convince them to convince them that the Commonwealth failed to meet the evidence.
Both will be hoping that their version will be echo and will motivate the gamblers to submit a decision in favor of their side – each side was rejected at the conclusion of the first test last July, When the jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision, Massachusetts forced Superior Court Judge Beverly Canon to declare a wrong.
Reid did not testify to any test, although she appeared to consider the idea. Prosecutors presented Interview clip Reid gave the media to the media, in his words tried to use his words to highlight discrepancies in his account and increase his principle.
The case focuses on a window of late time on January 28, 2022, and spreads over the morning hours of the next day.
That evening, Reid and O'Kif went out with friends twice in Canton, as the area was hung for a historic snow storm. The party finally went away A house on 34 Fairview RoadAnd when he said that he had left O'Kif, the witnesses who testified to the prosecution said that he never came in.
It is the principle of the prosecution that O'Kif took out of the vehicle, and was read that he kept his SUV in reverse and pressed about 75%on gas. According to the testimony presented in the test, the prosecutors allege that O'Kif read O'Kif at a speed of about 24 mph, Shattering his SUV tailSending the victim to the ground and he disables him due to his head shock injuries, causing him to die.
When read the next morning returned to the scene with two other women, they found that O'Kif was lying in snow near a flag in the yard of the house. At the behest of the prosecution, when a paramedic who responded to the treatment of O'Kif, asked what happened, read, “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.”
Special prosecutor Hack Brainon said in his initial statement, “And it was at that time, through the words of the defendant, that he admitted what he had done that night.” “That he hit John O'Kif.”
Reid's lawyers dismissed the principle, there was no confrontation: their experts testified some injuries – especially the cuts and scratches on their arm – due to a dog, and that the reed's taillight damage was incompatible with killing a person.
Rescue worked to reduce confidence in investigation, highlighting sexist and aggressive text messages, chief investigators, Michael ProctorSent about the defendant. Proctor was never called to testify, but those messages eventually led the Massachusetts State Police to discharge their dishonest discharge.
In his initial statement, Raksha Attorney Alan Jackson said that “there was a growing and huge evidence that there was no collision and John O'Kif's body was taken to that lawn.”
Scientific evidence, he said, “It will establish that Karen Reid's SUV was not damaged by killing a pedestrian and on the contrary, John O'Kif's injuries did not come.”
“Friends, science will not lie, and physics cannot lie,” Jackson said. “And that science will definitely tell you that there was no collision with John O'Kif. You will add it to that growing mountain of proper doubt.”
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