Karen read trial tests after an unexpected day

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The testimony in Reads resumption is back on Wednesday after an unexpected day off.

By Abby Patkin

Updated on May 14, 2025 | 3:04 p.m.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCQ3GA2JR4

Livestream via NBC10 Boston.

On the stand:

• Maureen stubborn, Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab

Previously:

12:15 p.m. Update: Needham Sgt. Evested via swab troops for DNA tests

Needham Police Sgt. Brian Gallerani informed the jury that he visited the district of the district in Norfolk on January 16, 2024, for Buccal -Gaufer from the Massachusetts State Police SGT. Yuriy Bukhenik and former soldier Michael Proctor.

He said he exchanged the inside of her mouth and confirmed that the rehearsals were later sent to Bode Technology, a laboratory in Virginia.

When he got started with the cross-life, defender David Yannetti confirmed that Gallerani was never asked to collect Buccal dups from the then police chief Kenneth Berkowitz, canton police expert Kevin Albert or the state police. Lt. Brian Tully.

12:10 p.m. Update: State Police SGT. Says that he had seen John O'keefes car days after O'keefes death

When the investigators from the snow outside the 34 Fairview Road “excavated” on February 3, 2022, the Massachusetts State Police SGT. Evan Brent said he was at hand to photograph every object in his place.

Brent said that this morning he met several detectives from the state police in Norfolk County, where the police officer of Boston, John O'keefe, had been cold and no longer reacted in the snow days. Brent explained some of the evidence that were found that the day melted as the snow, while other objects were covered by one foot or more snow.

After ending in the 34 Fairview Road, Brent said that he was asked to visit O'keefe's Home in the Meadows Avenue with ex-trooper Michael Proctor, the leading investigator in this case. Brent said Proctor that he asked him to document a vehicle parked in the driveway, a Chevrolet traverse.

Adam Lally, deputy district prosecutor, showed photos of O'keefes Haus and Auto, and Brent said he had not observed any damage to O'keefes garage doors or Chevy. The public prosecutor claims that O'keefe's girlfriend, Karen Read, damaged one of the taillights in your SUV in O'keefe in early January 2022. However, Read's lawyers suggested that she broke her taillight in O'keeefe's car when she was looking for his house for him that morning.

Defense attorney David Yannetti, Brent's earliest participation in the case on February 3, 2022, confirmed in the cross -question. Brent said Brent that he did not know who had access to Chevy in the days after O'keef's death.

Brent also said that he had no personal knowledge of who had access to the lawn outside the 34 Fairview Road after O'keefe died. He said there was no crime scene on the scene when he arrived.

11:15 a.m. Update: State Police SGT. Remember the photography of Karen Reads SUV, presumed crime scene

Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Zachary Clark informed the jury that he had arrived in the Canton police department on February 1, 2022 to document the search of the investigators for Karen Reads SUV at the request of ex-trooper Michael Proctor.

According to Clark, Maureen Hartnett from the state police crime and various members of the canton police and the state police were also present. Reads Black Lexus SUV was sitting in the police station's garage at the time, and Clark said that Proctor had informed him that the vehicle was sought for biological evidence, alcohol containers, income, infotainment data and other evidence.

Clark said he documented the interior and outdoor area of ​​the SUV and took photos of the vehicle before Hartnett began to process it. He remembered that Hartnett was “mainly concerned with the outdoor area of ​​the vehicle, namely the right rear corner. And she was looking for evidence of DNA and traces, I think.”

Clark said that he also processed the passenger seat of the SUV for “friction comb impressions” or fingerprints, but was not usable. He told the jury, he later took photos in front of the 34 Fairview Road, where John O'keefe had no longer been reacted to the snow days. According to Clark, there was still a “considerable” amount of snow.

Trooper Joseph Paul, a crash analyst of the state police, also asked Clark's help in recording and photography a series of tests in Reads Vehicle, said Clark. Adam Lally, deputy district prosecutor, showed jury photos of Read's car, including one that shows the backup camera display screen when the vehicle is the other way round.

Defense attorney David Yannetti confirmed that Clarks was the earliest participation in Read's case February 1, 2022.

“Before you arrive, you had no personal knowledge of how long Michael Proctor had been with this SUV before you arrived there right?” Asked Yannetti.

“Right,” replied Clark.

At Yannetti's request, Clark also confirmed that he had no personal knowledge of whether someone was monitoring Proctor while he was arriving near the vehicle before Clarks.

“And before they arrived there, they had no idea how much access Michael Proctor had to this vehicle, right?” Yannetti pressed.

“Right,” replied Clark.

He answered a question from Yannetti and confirmed that he and Proctor Colin Albert – Nephew from 34 Fairview Road House owner Brian Albert – interviewed together in July 2023. Yannetti asked Clark whether Proctor ever reveals a personal connection to the Alberts, but judge Beverly Cannone has revealed an entry in front of the prosecutor.

After a short morning break, Yannetti asked whether Clark Proctor had ever asked why he was waiting for so long to interview Colin Albert because O'keefe died in January 2022. Clark said he didn't do it.

10:45 a.m. Update: John O'keefes niece takes the view

Karen Read and John O'keefe argued more often in the last weeks before his death, O'keefe's teen niece said on Wednesday.

She and her younger brother lived with O'keefe with O'keefe for several years after her parents had died only a few months. Since she is a minor, her certificate was not a livestream, and media reports may not be able to identify by name. Read a complete summary of your certificate here.

Before the teenager commented, the special prosecutor Hank Brennan played two short clips from reads earlier interviews with media. In a clip from NBC's “Dateline” Read said that O'keefe “made it clear” that he was never separated from her.

In another video of investigating Discovery, Read told an interviewer of offscreen: “I don't see John knew about my texts with Brian [Higgins]. “” “She said she thought she and O'keefe had separated if he had learned from her flirting texts with highgins,” but I don't think John had lost it. “

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Karen Read's murder notes on Wednesday in the Supreme Court of Norfolk after an unexpected day off due to “inevitable circumstances”.

A court spokesman announced the unforeseen cancellation in a warning to the media shortly before the beginning of Tuesday on Tuesday, which offers no further details. However, a court official informed the reporters that the change in the plans at the last minute for health reasons.

Citing unnamed sources WBZ, WCVB and NBC10 Boston reported that he was sick on Tuesday. The lawyers of the public prosecutor and the defense had a meeting with closed doors late Tuesday morning to discuss the planning, the court officer confirmed.

At the beginning of this week, the jury at the beginning of this week have a third and last full testimony of the Massachusetts State Police SGT. Yuriy Bukhenik, who had exposed himself to the defender Alan Jackson with regard to ex-trooper Michael Proctor and witness Brian Higgins. One of the state police officers who examined the death of Read, the Boston police officer John O'keefe, the death of read, Bukhenik, defended the investigation as “honor and integrity”.

Bukhenik also confirmed that he praised Proctor for his “extreme professionalism and competence” in a performance assessment in autumn 2022, although he agreed that Proctor had only used “hideous” language months earlier to describe reading in a text message to colleagues from the state police. Jackson grilled Bukhenik about Proctor's text from August 17, 2022, in which the former soldier read “remained”, and noticed that he found “no -nudes” when he looked through her cell phone.

“This text message shows no integrity,” said Bukhenik on Monday and answered a question from Jackson.

“Do you think it shows honor, a word that I expect from loving you?” Jackson shot back.

“This text message shows no honor,” replied Bukhenik. The state police ultimately released Proctor at the beginning of this year and partially quoted its vulgar texts about reading.

Read's lawyers claim that they were framed in a huge conspiracy of law enforcement, and they claim that Proctor had participated in the cover -up. The public prosecutor, on the other hand, has supposedly read drunk and deliberately secured her SUV in O'Keefe, while after a night full of bar hopping at a aftermath in Canton.

The defense has met an alternative theory that O'keefe was attacked after entering the party in the 34 Fairview Road, and suspected of highgins, an after party guest who had previously exchanged flirty texts while she was with O'Keefe. Bukhenik, however, told the jury that he had not found any evidence of animus between Higgins and O'keefe.

The ongoing trial version is the second of Read; Her first murder process ended in a top -class Mistrial in July last July after the jury returned with the stick.