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Karen Reeds The decision of the defense team, who did not take her to her, allowed her to hear the version of Reed’s events in her words – a gambling – a gambling to help or hinder her case after the prosecution played her harmful interview pieces in her second murder trial.
Are facing the possibility of life in prison to read Is accused of murder Her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O Keef. The rights of the prosecution struck O’Keef in a drunk argument with his Lexus SUV, leaving him to clot in the front yard of a friend’s house party after midnight on January 29, 2022.
Reed’s defense team insists that its vehicle has never been in contact with O’Keef and there is no conflict.
“When I first came into practice,” never stopped your client, “” said Louis Gelarmino Fox News, New York City’s defense lawyer. “But I sometimes disagree with it. I hope we’ve got our big wins when we add our client to the stand. ”
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On Tuesday, May 2025, Karen read the Walk with one of his lawyer Alan Jackson during a hearing in Mass Dedham. (Boston Harold by Matt Stone/AP, Pool)
Tuesday, submitted the defense team The instructions of the proposed jury Reading indicates that she does not take a stand in her hearing.
“As you know, Miss Reid did not witness the inquiry,” the instructions read. “You may not hold it against her. Miss. Reed has the full right not to tell the witness, because as I described, she thought she was innocent and she had to do nothing to convince you that she was innocent.”
Instructions emphasize that the reason for reading is not related to the jury’s discussions and is not considered as evidence At her inquiry. Legal experts say that the option to take care of the defendant to Fox News Digital should not always be a good option.
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Jelarmino believes that he performs a strong performance on the witness, but it does not come without the dangers to call her to witness her.
“The reason for her to hide her is that they don’t want to explain all these videos because they have seen that they are not behaving in a good way,” Gelarmino said.
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Karen read talks with his lawyer Robert Aleesi and David Yanetti during a hearing at the Norfoke Superior Court in Mass’s Dedham on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Boston Harold by Matt Stone/AP, Pool)
Special Prosecutor Hank Brennon Reed played several clips from television interviews, choosing clips and could damage the protection.
“I wonder, ‘can I hit him?’ Read and said In an interview of 2024 for investigative invention. “Or I was told that I was told that I was struck by him. And I knew I could never say it. So I must say, ‘I have struck him?’
In the clip, she read the questions, “As much as the law enforcement claims, it is really (said).”
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In another clip, she talks about raising her own drinks with extra shots because they were not strong enough.
Jelarmino said the defense team wouldn’t want to read about his statements In the cross examinationPerhaps the door can be opened for the days of tense questioning from the state.
“They don’t want to explain all this bad or are things that people think is bad behavior,” Gelarmino said.
But the choice of reading the posture can prevent the interviews from giving an explanation to his statements and clears the part of the story.
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Prosecutor Hank Brennan challenged the witness during the Karen Reed Murder hearing in the Norfoke Superior Court in Mass’s Dedham on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Boston Harold by Matt Stone/AP, Pool)
“There are two sides of each coin,” Gelarmino told Fox News Digital. “You can put her on and try to explain her, or you can avoid it completely.”
Gelarmino pointed out the reality that reading may look defensive when giving an explanation to his camera stories, which can change the perception of his personality of the jury.
“As a defense lawyer, you need to clean it,” Gelarmino said. “So you are going to spend a lot of time to protect your character there.”
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On May 28, 2025, Karen Reed arrives at the court on the 22nd day of the Karen Reed Murder hearing at the Norfoke Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Greg Der / The Patriot Ledger / USA Today Network Image by Images)
Videos are a new obstacle to protection, as they are not played in Read’s first trial last year.
“Most of the people are convicted of committing commitment while acting under the influence of the first referee,” a retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge and Boston College Law Professor Jack Lu Fox News told Digital. “That’s no defendant’s video statements. Here, we have many harmful statements, and still some condemnation.”
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Lu said the defense was not tried to address video clips at this stage of the trial or provide a situation for the review of the Reed’s events.
“Therefore, the same inquiry and harmful video, the jury is most convicted. The protection is bad for protection,” Lu said.
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Since protection is calling witnesses, a significant absence of Reed’s own evidence is fully experienced only after the jury has read his judgment, acting as the sole side of the prosecution deciding to add his own words in court.
“Based on the fact that he had the last jury for the last time, he had a worthy case,” Gelarmino Fox told Digital. “So you want to confuse it with the protection of his actions and character for the next two or three days? That’s a tough decision.”
