(22 Apr 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 22 April 2025
1. Karen Read arriving in court, accompanied by her lawyers, for her retrial
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Walsh, Read supporter:
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“Karen Read is being tried for a second time for the murder of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, who was a Boston police officer.”
3. Close up of signage proclaiming Read’s innocence
4 . SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Walsh, Read supporter:
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“People are outraged about that. I think it’s a waste of money and it’s a waste time and that they have the wrong person.”
5. Wide of Read’s supporters gathered
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dina Warchal, Read supporter:
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“To me, it’s double jeopardy. They’re trying her again. But I’m out here to show her support. We want changes in everything that has to do with this trial, as far as police procedures and an innocent woman being framed for a crime she didn’t commit.”
POOL
Dedham, Massachusetts – 22 April 2025
7. Close up of Read listening in court
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hank Brennan, prosecutor:
“We are here today because John O’Keefe was killed by the actions and conduct of that defendant, Karen Read.”
9. Close up of Read listening in court
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Hank Brennan, prosecutor:
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“A very intoxicated defendant was angry and arguing about the relationship with John O’Keefe. And after the fight was over, she left, but she brought the fight back to him in the form of her SUV. She clipped him, he fell backwards, he broke his head.”
11. Close up of Read listening in court
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Jackson, defense attorney:
“This case carries a malignancy. A cancer that cannot be cut out, a cancer that cannot be cured, and that cancer has a name. His name is Michael Proctor. There’s not a single part of this case, folks, that he didn’t touch, that he didn’t direct. You’ll learn that Michael Proctor was a longtime family friend of the Alberts. And he’s been disgraced by his own agency, not by us, by the Massachusetts state police.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 22 April 2025
19. Sign outside trial
POOL
Dedham, Massachusetts – 22 April 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Jackson, defense attorney: “Karen Read is not guilty of hitting John O’Keefe with her SUV. She’s the victim of a botched and biased and corrupted investigation that was never about the truth, folks. It was about preserving loyalty. This case is the very definition of reasonable doubt.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 22 April 2025
19. Sign outside trial
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AP Video shot by Rodrique Ngowi.
STORYLINE:
Opening statements begin in the retrial of Karen Read, less than a year after a judge declared a mistrial on charges that she was responsible for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Read is accused of striking her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm outside of a house party. Her attorneys suggested O’Keefe was actually killed by someone else, possibly another law enforcement agent who was at a house party where his body was found.
After the trial, several jurors came forward to say the group was unanimous in finding Read not guilty of the most serious charge, second-degree murder, and a lesser charge. Despite attempts by Read’s lawyers to get those charges dismissed, she will face the same counts as she did at her first trial. They also failed to have the entire case tossed, arguing governmental misconduct.
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