Jurors' Questions In Karen Read Retrial Signal Potential Good News For Defense

The first group of jurors' questions sent backmost to nan tribunal successful Karen Read's retrial could beryllium a affirmative motion for her defense – astatine slightest arsenic it pertains to nan astir superior complaint she faces, experts say.

Judge Beverly Cannone publication nan 3 questions successful tribunal astir 11 a.m. Tuesday:

1. "What is nan timeframe for nan OUI (operating nether nan influence) charge? 12:45 aliases 5 a.m.?"
2. "Are video clips of Karen's interviews evidence?"
3. "Does convicting blameworthy connected a subcharge, for illustration discourtesy 2 No. 5, convict nan wide charge?"

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Karen Read leaves Norfolk Superior Court arsenic assemblage deliberations begin, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

"No uncertainty nan defense is elated," said Jack Lu, a retired Massachusetts judge and Boston College rule professor.

Questions 1 and 3 are favorable for nan defense, Lu told Fox News Digital, while 2 is "neutral." All 3 bespeak jurors are considering a lesser included complaint alternatively than nan apical count of first-degree murder.

Read is accused of sidesplitting her then-boyfriend John O'Keefe' successful a drunken hit-and-run connected Jan. 29, 2022 extracurricular a statement successful Canton, Massachusetts.

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Mark Bederow, a New York City-based defense lawyer who represents Read state and Canton blogger Aidan Kearney, said nan questions would person been addressed if nan defense mobility for an amended assemblage gaffe wasn't rejected Monday.

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"It does look that nan assemblage is wholly focused connected OUI based connected each 3 questions," he said. "This encapsulates nan problem pinch nan count 2 gaffe and appears to beryllium a repetition of what happened astatine nan first proceedings – erstwhile a confused assemblage seemingly acquitted connected each homicide charges and sewage confused pinch nan convoluted instructions connected nan count 2 lessers."

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Read's first proceedings ended successful a hung assemblage past twelvemonth aft jurors went much than 25 hours complete 4 days without reaching an agreement.

Defense lawyer David Yannetti warned that nan existing verdict gaffe has a "real imaginable to confuse nan assemblage and origin errors" – focusing connected Count 2 – nan drunken driving manslaughter charge. The gaffe indicates that jurors tin find her not blameworthy of nan complaint and a bid of included lesser offenses, aliases they tin find her individually blameworthy of 3 less-serious crimes ranging from involuntary manslaughter to drunken driving.

Karen Read and John O'Keefe airs for an undated photograph. (Karen Read)

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Read addressed her drinking successful nan hours earlier O'Keefe's decease successful a documentary question and reply played astatine trial.

"The drinks that they were pouring maine astatine McCarthy's, which was wherever I consumed astir of nan alcohol, was nan weakest vodka tonic," she told nan camera. "It tasted conscionable for illustration each soda h2o pinch lime, not that I request it to beryllium a martini, but it mightiness person a scatter of vodka successful it."

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Officer John O’Keefe poses for his charismatic headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is presently connected proceedings for execution aft he was recovered dormant extracurricular of a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

Read's blood-alcohol level was estimated to beryllium astir .09% erstwhile she was hospitalized for a intelligence wellness cheque pursuing nan find of O'Keefe's remains. Nine hours earlier, astatine nan clip of his death, it was estimated to beryllium importantly higher, though nan defense based on she could person continued to portion aft returning home.

"That tells maine they are focusing connected really intoxicant played a domiciled successful this case, which is what nan past assemblage recovered important also," said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts defense lawyer who is pursuing nan case.

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Read faces up to life successful situation if convicted connected nan astir superior complaint – second-degree murder. Some of nan OUI-related charges besides transportation multi-year penalties, Edwards said.