The special prosecutor, appointed to the front of Karen Reed’s second murder trial, accused of murdering Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe, asked the court on Friday to stop his police officer or one of his dogs from guilty in an opening statement next week.
In a two-letter move just days before the retrial begins with the opening statement, specially appointed assistant district attorney Hank Brennan allegedly the defense would use a photo of the injury on O’Keefe’s right arm.
“The federation will move in search of an order that attorneys refrain from claiming in the opening statement in the opening statement that either the victim’s injuries were caused by a person or animal inside the home of 34 Fairview Road,” he wrote. “Based on the defense’s request to show a scuff on the victim’s arm in a public statement, the federation points out that the court has awarded the defense, preventing it from establishing a viable basis before establishing any enrollable evidence and references to third party perpetrator claims and references to third party perpetrator claims related to exclusion.
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Karen read the photos in booking photos after being arrested in 2022 in connection with Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe. (Massachusetts State Police)
According to the prosecutorO’Keefe passed away outside Canton, Massachusetts. Some of his law enforcement colleagues and their spouses were present on January 28, 2022, in town.
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Readings are accused of attacking him in a Lexus SUV during a drunken debate, and then accused of leaving the scene where he was found dead in his companion Boston police Officer Brian Albert’s front lawn on January 29th.
Albert invited a group of people into his home and had a German shepherd named Chloe.
Karen Reed’s defense holds a poster committee containing information that it claims his client has exonerated the murder of John O’Keefe. (John Tlumaki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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O’Keefe’s cause of death was determined to be severe head injuries and hypothermia, but he also suffered injuries to his hand and right arm.
The allegations come the day after Judge Beverly Canone denied the prosecutor’s motion to exclude defense experts on dog bites and partially granted a defense motion to limit testimony from prosecutors’ experts on the same topic.
Karen Reed will appear at Norfolk County Superior Court for a pre-trial hearing. She is being charged with murder of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe. (John Tlumaki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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Dr. James Crosby is generally allowed to testify from the prosecutor on dog bites, but his analysis does not allow him to say that Chloe was ruled out by name.
Authorities discovered John O’Keefe outside his home in Canton, Massachusetts on the morning of January 29, 2021. (Boston Police Station)
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Her first trial ended last year with a ju judge’s deadlock, and she US Supreme Court He argues that the partial, unpublished results should justify dropping two of the three claims she faces.
The opening statement for her retrial is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
