The Karen Read Murder Trial
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@George-K said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
@LuFins-Dad said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
I’ve done it with my phone in my pocket.
At 2 AM?
More like 4 AM
With your phone on the nightstand?
YES
When you were testified that you were asleep?
NO
And the person you buttdialed happened to return your buttdial, with the calls lasting minutes? At 2AM?
NO
Also, @jolly, there is a federal investigation ongoing as well. Nobody knows what that is all about - yet.
I don’t doubt that there’s evil afoot, here. I’m just saying that yes, I have actually called one of my employees at like 3AM. Sometimes I listen to Audible when I am having trouble sleeping. I will routinely fall asleep when I do so. Most times I am smart enough to turn on the sleep timer, but sometimes I don’t. I think I fell asleep, and woke up enough to try and turn off the book in my sleep… There was an outgoing call to one of my staff at 3:48… Fortunately, he didn’t answer.
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@LuFins-Dad interesting.
But your employee didn't buttdial you back, right?
There is so much fuckery going on in this trial.
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@George-K said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
@LuFins-Dad interesting.
But your employee didn't buttdial you back, right?
There is so much fuckery going on in this trial.
No doubt.
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@LuFins-Dad said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
No doubt.
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Saw this on my drive into work this morning on Route 1 ....
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The Commonwealth has rested.
Wow. What a terrible presentation of their case. Even their own witness, the medical examiner couldn't say for sure that O'Keefe's injuries were caused by an encounter with a SUV.
As I may have mentioned, there's a concurrent FBI investigation regarding possible corruption in the Canton PD.
What a totally corrupt, incompetent prosecution and investigation.
She'll walk, and she deserves to.
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https://apnews.com/article/karen-read-boston-police-officer-murder-7222b8d74b2fb2e757209f09c437a766
Jurors in the trial of Karen Read unanimously concluded she was not guilty of murder or of leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and were deadlocked on only the remaining manslaughter charge before the judge abruptly declared a mistrial, her defense team said Monday.
The disclosure was made in a defense motion Monday in which they argued that retrying Read on those two counts “would violate” the double jeopardy protections in the U.S. and Massachusetts constitutions. If the court needs additional information, the defense said, it should approve a “post-verdict inquiry” in which they are allowed to “seek additional proof from the jurors” regarding their having “unanimously acquitted the defendant of two of the three charges against her.”
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@taiwan_girl said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
https://apnews.com/article/karen-read-boston-police-officer-murder-7222b8d74b2fb2e757209f09c437a766
Jurors in the trial of Karen Read unanimously concluded she was not guilty of murder or of leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and were deadlocked on only the remaining manslaughter charge before the judge abruptly declared a mistrial, her defense team said Monday.
The disclosure was made in a defense motion Monday in which they argued that retrying Read on those two counts “would violate” the double jeopardy protections in the U.S. and Massachusetts constitutions. If the court needs additional information, the defense said, it should approve a “post-verdict inquiry” in which they are allowed to “seek additional proof from the jurors” regarding their having “unanimously acquitted the defendant of two of the three charges against her.”
I find it surprising that the jury was deadlocked on that last charge. I guess it's possible some people on the jury had a hard time believing that the police would do such a thing.
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The problem is that the judge made some serious errors in her directions to the jury - "Don't return the forms unless you are ALL unanimous on ALL the charges."
She hamstrung the jury. The were unanimous in counts 1 and 3 (not guilty). But, because of the judge's instruction, they couldn't render those forms because they were divided on count #2.
Two of the jurors have reached out to counsel indicating their displeasure with the outcome. ALL of them were united in the "not guilty" on the 2nd degree murder charge.
But the judge didn't hear that - perhaps because she refused to hear that - and so she ordered a new trial on all 3 charges.
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What a cluster.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
What a cluster.
I've been following it closely.
"Cluster" is generous.
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@George-K said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Karen Read Murder Trial:
What a cluster.
I've been following it closely.
"Cluster" is generous.
Yes, I was getting increasingly interested in this too, partly because of the local connection, but also because of what appeared to be truly stunning incompetence coupled with apparently fairly widespread corruption.