A data analyst of mobile phones and a good friend of the victim testified this week in the controversial introduction of Karen Read, the Massachusetts-woman accused of killing her friend, a police officer in Boston, in January 2022.
The judge in the case explained a mistrial In July, jury members could not agree on an opinion. The movement is unfolding in the same courthouse in Dedham, south of Boston.
Prosecutors say that Mrs. Read, 45, deliberately supported her car in officer John O’Keefe and killed him after a night out with friends. Lawyers of the defense argued in the first trial that after Mrs. Read officer O’Keefe was dropped off at a party at a party in the outskirts of Canton, Massachusetts, in the house of another police officer in Boston, he was beaten and left for death in the front garden during a raging blizzard.
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Data from mobile phones is disputed
A digital forensic expert, Ian Whiffin, testified this week about his analysis of data from the mobile phone from the officer O’Keefe, who was found under his body. Based on the data, Mr. Whiffin said, he believes that the phone was in the garden of the house where the party was held from 12.30 pm on January 29, when Mrs. Readefe dropped officer O’Keefe, until 6 am that morning, when his body was discovered in the snow.
That testimony suggests that the officer did not enter the house that night and supports the prosecutor’s argument that Mrs. Read has hit and killed him with her car.
But lawyers for Mrs. Read challenged Mr Whiffin’s analysis of the telephone data and wondered if it was really possible to determine with certainty whether the phone was on the lawn or a short distance, in the house.
Mr. Whiffin also discussed the timing of a brightly disputed Google search in the early hours of January 29, by a friend of officer O’Keefe and Mrs. Read who attended the party and asked: “Ho[w] Long to die in cold. “He said that the online search was not performed at 2:27 am, as a time stamp indicates, but later that morning, around when the body of officer O’Keefe was discovered.
Defense lawyers maintained that the Google search was made at 2:27 am, when the friend opened the search window and that it showed that the people in the party had worked to leave the wounded police officer. The cause of death of officer O’Keefe was head trauma and hypothermia.
Who is Jennifer McCabe?
This week, jury members heard several days of testimony from Jennifer McCabe, a friend of officer O’Keefe and Mrs Read’s who sat at the bar with them that evening. Mrs. McCabe also went to the house party that followed and was present at 6 am on January 29, when Mrs. Read returned to the house and discovered the body on the lawn.
In her testimony, Mrs. McCabe described receiving a hysterical phone call from Mrs. Read around 5 o’clock in the morning and said that officer O’Keefe had never come home the previous night. She told Mrs. Read with the question: “Did I hit him?”
She drove Mrs. Read back to the house in Canton, where the party was held, she said, and Mrs. Read continued to wonder if she could have touched officer O’Keefe after she had dropped him off. Mrs Read also showed Mrs. McCabe and another friend a crack in the rear light of her black Lexus SUV, Mrs. McCabe testified.
Lawyers of the defense pressed Mrs. McCabe exactly what Mrs. Read said that morning and if she had asked: “Did I hit him?” Or said, “I hit him.”
Mrs. McCabe said this week in court that her memory of Mrs. Read said: “I hit him, I hit him” that morning stays “so fresh today” as three years ago.
The relationship of the couple was fraying
In testimony last week, a Trooper of the State Police read text messages exchanged by Mrs. Read and officer O’Keefe the day before he died of the growing tension in their relationship.
“It’s not great between us for a while,” officer O’Keefe wrote to Mrs. Read. She replied: “So you don’t like it anymore. That’s fine, but I don’t want to keep trying and you keep treating me like that.”
A local paramedicist who responded to the scene after the body of officer O’Keefe discovered testified that a shouting Mrs Read Wanmoop had spoken about a fight with her boyfriend in their last interaction.
Mrs Read did not testify in her first process, but her own descriptions of the night that her friend died can be a factor in the new process. Public Prosecutors have said that they intend to introduce statements that she made in magazine articles and documentaries after the Mistrial last summer.
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