Karen Read, Massachusetts’s wife who said she was framed in a conspiracy to apply the long -range law after the authorities accused her of fatally running over her boyfriend as a police officer, is scheduled to return to the Court for a new month next month for second degree murder charges and other crimes.
But their lawyers have been occupied in the previous period when trying to obtain the majority, if not all, of the case widely seen.
In consecutive hearings on Wednesday, her lawyers affirmed in a state court that she was a victim of “extraordinary governmental behavior”, while in the Federal Court they argued that trying again two of the charges, including murder, is equivalent to double danger.
Separate investigation into alleged misconduct by the state police soldier who directed the investigation into the death of the Boston Police officer John O’Keefe is ongoing.
In addition to the second degree murder, Read was accused of homicide of motor vehicles while driving under the influence and left the scene of a collision causing death after the prosecutors said they supported their SUV Lexus in O’Kefe on January 29, 2022, and left him dead outside the house of a Boston police sergeant.
During a nine -week trial last summer that concluded with the judge who declared a null trial, the Read defense team claimed that the sergeant and others were probably responsible for death and conspired to frame the reading in O’Kefe’s murder.
In a partially written presentation without sealing last week in the Superior Court of Norfolk County, Read lawyers requested that all charges be dismissed. Read was “severely prejudice” after the authorities seemed to have altered or retained a security video that captured what lawyers have described as crucial evidence: a rear light in the READ SUV, according to the presentation.
During the Read trial, prosecutors alleged that the rear light shattered when he backed his vehicle in O’Kefe. The broken light contained the O’Kefe DNA, prosecutors said.
But the Read Defense team has said that the video, which was recorded in the police facilities where the SUV was taken once in custody, shows that the rear light was not damaged until it reached the facilities in Canton, Mass.
During the state court hearing on Wednesday, defense lawyer Alan Jackson described the alleged misconduct as a pattern that justified dismissal, NBC Boston reported.
The special prosecutor Hank Brennan rejected those statements, saying that there was “absolutely no evidence” of manipulation. “It is unequivocally clear that the piece of rear light is missing long before that car arrives in Canton,” he said, according to the station.
The Judge of the Superior Court Beverly Cannone, who presided over the first trial, did not rule on the bank’s issue.
In a separated hearing on Wednesday, Read lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss the murder position and a second accusation, leaving the scene of a collision causing death, about what they described as an “error” made by Cannone after the null trial was declared.
The defense sought that the charges be presented after saying that two jurors told the lawyers that the panel would have acquitted the reading of the crimes. Cannone denied the request, saying that they had never reached a verdict in the open court.
But Cannone never survey the jury to determine if they had made a decision about any of the accusations, said one of the read lawyers on Wednesday. Nor did the defense have the opportunity to question jurors in an effort to guarantee equity and impartiality, NBC Boston reported.
An assistant district prosecutor replied that such investigation process could compromise the jury, and nothing in the constitution of the State required that Cannone has taken the steps described by the defense.
The judge who supervises the matter said he would take the matter under advice, according to NBC Boston.
The new Read trial is scheduled to start on April 1.
