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Mistrial declared in case of woman charged with murdering a Boston cop

By adamg on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 4:09pm

WCVB reports on the mistrial declared today in the second-degree murder case of Karen Read, charged with ramming her then boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a Canton snowbank. The Norfolk County DA's office said it would re-try Read, whose attorneys say O'Keefe died at the hands of his fellow officers.

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By Hardy Har Har on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 4:54pm.

Would've been interesting to get theories and opinions on social media.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 5:37pm.

That's the simple take-away.

Read belongs in jail, regardless - as do many of her cop friends who think drunk driving is a privilege.

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By Reggae Ambassador on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 11:23pm.

And agreed that most of this cast of characters could use some time in jail.
And not just for OUI.

By Angry Dan on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 5:42pm.

License to kill was in effect.

The bare minimum needed to get a jury to convict for killing someone with a motor vehicle would be clear video and/or highly reliable eye witness statements plus a clearly proven blood alcohol content, well beyond the legal limit, taken right after the killing. That would give the prosecution a chance.

She even returned to the scene and confessed in front of witnesses:

Prosecutors relied on several first responders who testified that Read admitted that she hit O’Keefe — saying “I hit him”

I don't see another trial making a difference, especially since she's a conspiracy theory celebrity now.

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By Sator on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 6:41pm.

she returned to the scene and said those words, and while in a totally calm state.

Surely she is the level headed type, and not the sort to catastrophise or naively repeat a plausible story... while in shock over a death, and still drunk.

The woman who spoke those three words definitely could only have said them in the context you presented.

I'm not saying she didn't do it, but you're the one characterizing her words.

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By Rwgfy on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 7:32pm.

Wasn't the only thing the prosecutors relied on though.

By anon on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 8:20pm.

plus a clearly proven blood alcohol content

Proven in the morning 8 hours after she left the party. There's no way to prove she didn't drink a lot after getting home, which means her BAC at the time of the guy's death cannot be proven.

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By Nongenuphobe on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 3:21pm.

Even ignoring the fact that the few people that claimed she did, did not report it until much later in their ever changing testimonies, NO ONE at that scene behaved in a way that someone confessed. Those injuries are not from getting hit by a car.

By Waquiot on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 9:39pm.

Both the prosecution and the defense dealt in outlandish theories.

Can’t wait to hear text messages read out loud again in a few years time, assuming the feds don’t drop anything in the meantime.

By Don't Panic on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 2:54am.

It got truly outlandish when they dropped the animal attack into the mix. A possible canine attack no less.

By adamg on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 10:35pm.

The Department has relieved Trooper Proctor of duty effective immediately.

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By cybah on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 7:03am.

So another trial so the local news media, excluding this site of course, will be salivating on every word in the next trial like she did this one.

Wondering why this case got so much coverage outside of the fact that she allegedly killed her cop husband. Oh and she's a pretty white lady.

Can't wait to avoid local news when the second trial hits.

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By MC Slim JB on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 7:58am.

that I worked so hard not to learn anything about. The moment I saw that awful Turtleboy shitheel was somehow involved, I thought, "I'm out."

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By cinnamngrl on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 10:06am.

wish I had.

By Will LaTulippe on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 11:48am.

Legitimized him.

By MC Slim JB on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 12:23pm.

Fuck that ugly troll.

By Will LaTulippe on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 5:30pm.

Apparently, he left a message for Trooper Proctor in which he introduces himself as "award-winning journalist Turtleboy."

I don't recall Mike Wallace having done that. You have a point. Apropos that Turtleboy is a frequent Howie Carr guest - two men who are tools, but the reason *isn't* that I disagree with every single thing that they say and believe.