Opening statements in the Karen Reed murder trial are scheduled to begin Monday morning.
Prosecutors said Reed backed her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, into reverse on a snowy January 29, 2022, night outside her home in Canton, Massachusetts, after an alcohol-fueled fight. It is suspected that he was murdered.
Mr. Reed didn’t just maintain his innocence. murderamong other charges, her defense team alleges that Ms. Reed was framed by people in her home in Canton, Massachusetts, as part of a top-to-bottom cover-up that is part of an ongoing federal investigation. insisted.
O’Keefe’s lawyer argued that the dog attacked her while she was fighting with someone inside her home. A judge ruled last week that Reed’s defense team could argue that someone else killed O’Keefe, but not in opening statements.
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Karen Reed appears in Norfolk Superior Court after jury selection day on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in Dedham, Massachusetts. Ms. Reed is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend in an SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for her death after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
O’Keefe’s body was found in the snow, and despite life-saving measures, he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Since then, the case has sparked polarizing discourse in suburban Boston, including conspiracy-fueled spectacles such as the arrest of local blogger Aidan Carney, also known as “Turtleboy.”
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Mr. Carney has been an ardent supporter of Mr. Reade and has led the Free Karen rallies, but prosecutors say he crossed the line and charged him with multiple witness intimidation charges.
The judge ruled that Mr Carney could attend the trial. “It’s a complete victory,” he said on a Facebook livestream after the hearing last week.
Karen Reed appears in Norfolk County Superior Court for a pretrial hearing. She is charged with murdering her boyfriend, John O’Keefe. (John Turmacchi/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Officer John O’Keefe takes the official mug shot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, was found dead outside his Massachusetts home in January 2022 and is currently on trial for murder. (Boston Police Department)
O’Keefe suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured skull from blunt force trauma, bleeding on the brain, a swollen eye, and several lacerations and abrasions on her right arm and hand.
However, the autopsy is so rigorous that forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan told FOX News Digital that the autopsy and the forensic examiner’s testimony will be critical to the trial.
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Reid’s strong defensive team, including Alan Jackson Helped exonerate Kevin Spacey In court documents, he said the investigation into the 2019 sexual assault allegation was “sloppy” and that a complex personal and romantic relationship was covered up.
Last week, 19 jurors were selected from about 400 potential jurists after a two-week process.
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A local law professor said an impartial jury given the media hype and speculation is paramount.
“The influence of media, social media and sidebars turtle blogger. “Given all the information going back and forth between the prosecutor’s office and the defense, I think it’s going to be a long process to select an impartial jury,” said Christopher Dearborn, a law professor at Suffolk University. he told CBS News.
