After eight weeks of testimony, the jury Massachusetts found the read I did not blame for the second degree in his Boston police officer boy John O’keefe, in what prosecutors called the tragic case of love he turned dead But what claimed the defense was a police cover.
The jurors spent about 22 hours discussed before finding reading, 45, rather than guilty of the main indictment, but guilty of a smaller charges for driving in drunks In 2022. Death of O’Keefe, 46, who was found irresponsibly in a snowman out of canton home after drinking. The prosecutors claimed to read their boyfriend with his SUV before he drove away, but the defense held O’Keefe killed in the house and later pulled out outside.
When the verdict descends on Wednesday, at the sea of pink-coated supporters who were waiting out of Dedham superior superior court, they broke into cheering and hugged how they started “Free Karen.”
“I couldn’t stand here without these amazing supporters who supported me and my team financially and that is even more important in almost four years,” read the crowd in front of the courtroom. “No one fought more for justice for John O’Keefe than I have my team.”
Read the former additional professor at Bentley College indicted for the murder of the second degree, murder while operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcoholic beverages and leaving the scene of fatal collision.
The conviction for the murder of the second degree would carry a life sentence. Instead, he will only get a year of probation for Oui.
The main victory for reading and her team comes for almost a year after the separate jury could not reach the decision, the leading judge Beverly Cannon to tell Mistra.
The case captured the attention around the world from before the trial last summer when her defense team claimed that she was a framed police. Many have come to her defense and personally and online as a dramatic Saga in case that in case he affected a small community of Dedjam, Massachusetts.
The first trial ended in Misnica 1. July, and the jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision. The defense said that several jurors from the first trial forward and said that the jury was set up to release the readings of the two accusations, but swallowed in a third, which led to, right.
At the second trial, the reading team did not return from his receivables, and during the trial he claimed that O’Keefe was beaten, bitten by the dog, then left the house in a conspiracy that included planting evidence against reading.
Meanwhile, prosecutors claimed that he was read after a quarrel with O’Keefe, she hit him with dry and then drove him, leaving him to die in the snow.
The state focused on key forensic evidence, including the pieces of the reader’s recent backrest, which is located near the body and data from its Lexus pointing to reversed and accelerated after rejecting O’Kefee.
Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan emphasized his own words to read – repeated several times the first answers, according to the testimony – that he had “hit him.”
“She was drunk. She hit him and left him to die,” Brennan jury said, adding emotional reading reactions to the scene showed that a woman begins to “face reality of what she did.”
The prosecutors also leaned into statements read during the interview where she recognized the possibility of “hastened” O’Keefe with his SUV, despite that she did not think she didn’t think he hits him.
But the Defense painted a large second picture – one of the corruption, conspiracy and huge covering with the closely circle for the implementation of the Law on Environmental Areas.
The Alan Jackson defense counsel started the final argument on Friday repeated three times: “There was no collision.”
He said the jury that the reading of the innocent woman who victims police officers in which police officers sought to protect their own and unclog the real killer.
“There is no evidence that John hit the car. None,” Jackson said. “This case should be done right now.”
The defense claimed that O’Keefe was beaten, bitten by a dog and left him out of the other at home entertainment, who attended several police officers and at least one federal agent.
They accused Lead Investigators, Michael Proctor State soldier Bias and misconductIndicates rough and inappropriate text messages sent to read – messages so creepy that the Proctor was later fired.
Jackson claimed that key evidence, including the fragments of amazing light, planted in the read box.
He pointed out suspicion in Brian Higgins federal agents, who exchanged flirtatious texts and was present the night of O’Keefe’s death, which suggests a possible motive for a conflict inside the house.
“What happened in that basement or that garage?” Jackson asked. “What did investigators ignore?”
The Defense also rejected the alleged reception for reading on the scene as a confused confusion, not recognition.
“It wasn’t a confession.” There was confusion, “Jackson said. “Shock makes people ask irrational questions.”
In this trial, Brennan – who replaced the initial chief prosecutor – called a smaller witness, but leaned into physical evidence, professional testimony and reading their own words.
Brennan said that alcohol was in the blood in Brennan two to three times higher than the legal border after a couple of parent drinks in two cantons. The couple, whose “toxic” relationship “of” Razjanjeli “, had an argument on his way to a home entertainment that increased tensions and eventually led to the death of O’Keefe, the prosecutor said.
Many were drawn in the case due to an internet blogs managed by Aidan Kearney, aka Turtley, who was ruthlessly examined by the Prosecution. He was also charged with harassing witnesses. Kearney is charged with intimidating witnesses and conspires, which denies.