The newest member of Karen Read’s defense team is a New York City-based attorney who typically represents businesses in environmental and financial fights and has argued before the US Supreme Court. Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone has accepted Read’s request for Robert Alessi to be added to her defense team which attorneys David Yannetti, … Read more
Karen Read owes more than $5 million in legal fees, a debt that will continue to climb with her anticipated retrial in late January, but the defendant says she’s “not backing down now,” in a new interview. Vanity Fair highlighted the amount Read owes her defense team in deferred fees in an article released on … Read more
An emergency physician at Brockton Hospital sitting on the Canton Police Audit Committee says he sees no problem with officers who used red Solo plastic cups to collect evidence the morning of John O’Keefe’s death. Daniel Muse, a Canton resident since 1995, has asserted that he doesn’t see how the police department’s use of the … Read more
While Karen Read’s murder trial ended in a mistrial earlier this year, the family of John O’Keefe is moving ahead with a wrongful death suit against the late Boston cop’s girlfriend and two Canton bars. O’Keefe’s brother Paul and his family on Monday filed the lawsuit against Read and the bars — Waterfall Bar & … Read more
For Canton to move past the turmoil that has shaken the community since the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in January 2022, many residents say an audit of the police department is an essential beginning. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Read original article here Denial … Read more
Does this look someone who would go bat-bleep crazy and suddenly start shoving the female manager of a nice Cape Cod bar while screaming unhinged obscenities at her and her young waitresses on a balmy summer Saturday night? Does this look like a woman who would hysterically yell “Old hag!” and the c-word at a … Read more
Karen Read’s defense team says a fifth juror has come forward to tell them that the jury was unanimous in believing Read was not guilty of two of the charges against her, including second-degree murder, bolstering its call to dismiss those charges in the new trial. “The defense respectfully renews its contention that the jury … Read more
Kevin Albert, the Canton police officer and brother of the man central to the defense’s third-party killer theory in the Karen Read murder case, has been on paid administrative leave since the middle of June. Canton Select Board Chairman Michael Loughran dropped the bombshell Tuesday night during the first meeting since Norfolk County Judge Beverly … Read more
The verdict watch continues in the murder trial of Karen Read, the Mansfield woman accused of running her boyfriend John O’Keefe down with her SUV during a Canton snowstorm and leaving him to freeze in a front yard. Jurors have sat for a total of 30 days of trial, including Monday’s closing arguments, in Norfolk … Read more
Attorneys on Thursday have begun interviewing a third batch of potential jurors in the white-hot Karen Read murder case at Norfolk Superior Court. The pool for today was significantly smaller than the prior two days of the jury selection which began on Tuesday. While the other days had 90 or more potential jurors each, Thursday … Read more
