Karen Read’s team of experienced lawyers is prepared to start dismantling the murder case brought against her by the prosecution. The state has concluded presenting its case earlier this week.
Read is facing accusations of murdering her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, outside a house party in the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022.
The prosecution claims that Read used her 2021 Lexus SUV to strike O’Keefe in a drunken outburst following a night of arguments, before abandoning him to die from exposure in the front yard of the residence at 34 Fairview Road.
“The prosecutor has made her into a self-absorbed caricature,” Lu told Fox News Digital, adding, “They must get into the hatred of her by [former investigator] Michael Proctor.”
Proctor is on the witness list, but it remains unclear whether the defense will put him on the stand. Prosecutors did not call him this time around after his testimony in the first trial saw jurors shaking their heads as they heard his inappropriate texts about Read in court. The case ended in a mistrial, and he lost his job days before the second trial kicked off.
Read has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, she faces the possibility of life in prison for the most serious charge of second-degree murder.
“Right now Ms. Read’s legal case is badly wounded,” Lu said. “Mr. Yannetti has the ability to charm the jury, fight the judge as needed, present the defense witnesses – some of whom are hostile – and in closing, inspire the jury.”
