Vindicated Karen Read Thanks 'greatest' Legal Team As Jurors Deliver Not Guilty Verdict In Boyfriend's Death

Karen Read, yet vindicated aft 2 execution tests successful nan 2022 decease of her erstwhile boyfriend, Boston bull John O'Keefe, thanked a vocal crowd of supporters Wednesday, minutes aft jurors recovered her not blameworthy of each homicide-related charges.

She will service a twelvemonth connected probation for drunken driving.

Read's father, William Read, credited her ineligible squad for nan consequence — which spared her nan maximum reward of life imprisonment arsenic good arsenic multi-year stints down bars connected a bid of lesser charges.

"I want to admit nan top squad of attorneys," he told her cheering supporters from nan courthouse steps. "Our first 1 that we recovered was David Yannetti. We added Alan Jackson and Liza Little. Bob Alessi you cognize about, each right. It was a awesome team, but we needed them each to conclusion this."

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Karen Read exits Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Massachusetts, connected Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Read was recovered not blameworthy successful nan execution of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

He besides thanked Read’s vocal supporters and net "content providers."

But it was her ineligible squad that put successful nan legwork. They were already high-powered lawyers from a trio of America's largest cities: Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Now they've risen to caller heights, experts say.

"All those lawyers tin constitute their tickets successful position of what type of high-profile cases they want to grip moving forward, but I'm judge they want to return a break aft this one," said Maryland lawyer Randolph Rice, who represents nan family of Rachel Morin, a mother of 5 whose execution connected a hiking way astatine nan hands of a fugitive forbidden migrant prompted legislature hearings.

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Karen Read’s lawyer Alan Jackson talks to reporters aft leaving nan Norfolk County Superior Court, May 20, 2025, successful Dedham, Massachusetts. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

"Trials for illustration these return it retired of you, some physically and emotionally," he told Fox News Digital. "I've seen immoderate lawyers that for illustration to measurement backmost and do smaller cases for a while, and others for illustration nan precocious and want to get correct backmost and do different one."

But he said viewers tin expect to spot them making nan rounds connected TV and successful further documentaries.

Read famously sat down for galore interviews aft her first proceedings — an unorthodox move that prosecutors attempted to usage against her by playing soundbites for nan jury. She besides said retired many times during nan trial, but her lawyers remained tight-lipped owed to nan court's gag order.

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Defense lawyer David Yannetti listens to grounds during nan proceedings of Karen Read successful Norfolk Superior Court, May 16, 2025, successful Dedham. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle, AP Pool)

"I deliberation this catapults them into a stratosphere of representing celebrities and large cases, which furthers their fame, arsenic agelong arsenic they support winning," Rice said.

The Los Angeles-based Jackson has already put that mentation into action. He delivered nan opening and closing for nan defense. He antecedently prosecuted euphony shaper Phil Spector for nan execution of character Lana Clarkson and defended character Kevin Spacey from Nantucket groping charges.

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Little useful for nan patient wherever Jackson is simply a partner: Werkman Jackson and Quinn. 

Defense lawyer Robert Alessi makes a constituent arsenic he cross-examines integer forensics expert Shanon Burgess during nan Karen Read proceedings connected May 20, 2025, successful Dedham. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Robert Alessi is simply a partner astatine nan world rule patient DLA Piper. Read added him to nan squad up of her 2nd trial, successful which he translated analyzable information done questioning of experts who discussed nan specifications of their fields and findings.

And David Yannetti — Read's Boston lawyer and nan section lynchpin — whitethorn person nan astir to gain.

Even Hank Brennan, nan typical charismatic who besides came into nan lawsuit pinch a precocious floor plan arsenic nan erstwhile lawyer for mobster Whitey Bulger, will likewise spot a boost successful his business, according to Jack Lu, a retired Massachusetts judge and Boston College rule professor.

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Special charismatic Hank Brennan during a luncheon break from nan Norfolk County Superior Court, May 20, 2025. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

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"They will each beryllium flooded pinch caller clients," Lu told Fox News Digital. "Brennan will beryllium catapulted to stardom because anyone tin spot his talent. I would opportunity Yannetti and Brennan’s practices spell national."

As for Read, salient lawyer turned ineligible expert Linda Kenney Baden expects her to record a slew of caller lawsuits against nan investigators who charged her.

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"Especially a civilian authorities suit against [Michael] Proctor," she said, referring to nan erstwhile homicide detective who mislaid his occupation complete texts he sent astir Read's case.