Live Watch: Karen Read Trial Richter says jury that he shouldn't make faces, “no murmurs in your breath”

The Karen Read attempt In Massachusetts, a 17th Witness Aus is continued after the jury today saw graphic photos By John O'keefe's autopsy. On Friday morning, two analysts of the Massachusett State Police Crime Lab stood.

You can stream the procedure live from the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham when the procedures start at 9 a.m. on CBS News Boston or in the video player above.

The medical examiner Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello ended the statement on Thursday after several hours.

Read is accused of having met and killed O'keefe, her friend of the Boston police officer with her SUV and die in the canton in the snow in January 2022. The defense claims that there was a fight within Brian Albert's house in the 34 Fairview Road and O'Keefe was in the testicle outside and left.

Pendant of Read may be closer to the courthouse on Friday after a federal court of appeal has decided that a new one Buffer zone For the procedure, they continue to violate their rights for initial fit. But there are conditions with the move – you have to remain calm and cannot affect the work of the court.

Judge says Karen that the jury “no murmur in your breath”

Before the certificate started on Friday, judge Beverly Cannon said that she had an “important instruction” for the jury.

“I just want to be very clear that it is important that people do not comment on the evidence or make any comments,” Cannone said and told the jury “just listening”.

“Don't talk, do not make a facial expressions. No murmur in the breath, no audible noises because people have to hear what's going on and to understand everything,” said Cannone. “Out of respect for their jurors, I would ask that they are very careful to ensure that they do not do so, and out of respect for the lawyers who have worked so hard to get this case in front of them.”

Crime scientists testify to Karen Read Trial

Shortly before witnesses agreed, the prosecutors played a clip of a documentary film view in April 2024 with Read, in which she described, to find O'keefe in the snow.

“He had a piece of glass, as it was on his nose, just healed like a splinter,” said Read. “I pulled it and as soon as I pulled it, it raved about his face.”

The first witness of the certificate was the forensic expert Andre Porto with the Crime Lab. The focus of his certificate was on John O'keef's clothing, sneakers, a drinking class and rear light fragments that were found at the crime scene in Canton. Porto testified that the O'keefe DNA corresponds to a probably corresponding DNA in the broken rear lights.

The defense of Porto did not check in the first legal proceedings. But this time lawyer David Yannetti Porto asked whether the DNA of two men on which the defense is as possible Perpetrators of third -party providers Were found in O'keeefe's clothing.

“Have you ever been asked to compare the DNA profile of DNA profiles from Brian Higgins or Brian Albert?” Asked Yannetti.

“I wasn't,” said Porto.

The next witness of the crime laboratory was Ashley Vallier, who took photos of evidence near O'keefes body.

Karen Read's lawyers say that the prosecutors had broken rules

After the jury had gone on Thursday, Read's lawyers accused the persecution of “ambalance” and tried to put the opinion of the Commonwealth expert at the Commonwealth out of court.

The defense says that a new report that is shared by prosecutors changes the time when O'keefe is allegedly reading with her Lexus by 33 seconds.

“You are now trying to defend my defense,” said Read Reporter outside of the court on Thursday.

Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan said that new information was discovered when working on a difference in the O'keefe watches from O'keefe in comparison to Reads SUV. He said that the new information is not changing anything.

Judge Cannon did not immediately decide on this topic. That lasted on Friday.

“Our timeline has been the same since we surrounded it from the start,” said Brennan. “You only say things without a good base of faith.”

The medical examiner testifies to the Karen Read study

Most of the certificate on Thursday came from Dr. Scordi-Bello. While she was on the stand, the jury saw photos of bruising on O'keeefe's hand, shots on his arm and injuries to his face. The judge allowed the jurors to take a break when a picture from the inside of O'keefe's stomach was displayed on the screen.

Scordi-Bello said that blunt injuries caused O'keef's death, and she said that it could have fallen back on frozen soil. But the medical examiner could not find out how O'keefe died.

“Could you draw death to a reasonable degree of medical certainty at a conclusion of the kind of Mr. O'keefes?” Asked Brennan.

“No, I wasn't,” replied Scordi-Bello.

The defense confiscated the fact that experts could not choose between accident or murder. Lawyer Robert Alessi asked Scordi-Bello whether the condition of O'keef's legs indicates that he could be hit by a car.

“So I examined his legs and saw no effect on an impact location,” said Scordi-Bello.

The defense also pushed the medical examiner to her theory that O'keefe could have been beaten in House 34 Fairview Road.

“Is this injury consistent or incompatible in one fell swoop?” Asked Alessi.

“Could be consistent,” said Scordi-Bello.

Karen Read the test recently

At the beginning of this week, the jury heard from a forensic scientist of Massachusett's State Police, who examined Reads Lexus, and O'keefes Teenager -Nnicht, who say Read and O'keefes to read deteriorating relationships in the months before his death.

Lawyers are on both sides Prevented to speak To the media, but there are signs that law enforcement wraps their case, although important witnesses such as Brian Higgins, Michael Proctor and Brian Albert did not say. Legal analysts say it seems that the Commonwealth is still planning to call crash reconstruction and DNA experts, but the defense expects to start its case relatively soon.

Read, 45, is charged with a second degree murder, homicide, while he operates under the influence of alcohol and leaves the place of personal injury and death. She has not guilty for all charges.