(26 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 26 June 2024
1. Wide of the Norfolk County Superior Court building
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 25 June 2024
2. Close up of signage supporting Read outside the courthouse
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Casey, The Associated Press:
"Karen Read is accused of fatally striking her Boston police officer boyfriend, leaving him for dead in a snowbank. Prosecution are leaning heavily on evidence, including testimony from first responders who came upon the scene early in the morning, and they heard Karen Read say repeatedly that she hit him. She hit him. They also found broken … pieces of broken tail light from her SUV at the scene, as well as, they say, DNA from John O’Keefe on her vehicle, a hair sample. The defense is leaning heavily on conspiracies and a cover up. They say that she was framed. They basically presented evidence of conflicts of interest involving investigators and witnesses on the scene, and then evidence of sloppy investigations, including, you know, the way evidence was gathered. And they even suggest things like DNA and pieces of glass were planted at the scene."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 26 June 2024
4. Close up of signage at the Norfolk County Superior Court building
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Dedham, Massachusetts – 25 June 2024
5. Karen Read in the courtroom during closing arguments
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Dedham, Massachusetts – 25 June 2024
6. Read’s supporters listening to closing arguments outside the courtroom
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Casey, The Associated Press:
"This case goes back several years, and prosecutors allege that the two were out drinking that night heavily. And then they decided to go to a house party in Canton, Massachusetts. Read allegedly dropped him off before she backed into him and then left for home. Several hours later, she realized he hadn’t come back, and so she returned to the scene to find him lying in the snowbank. He was pronounced dead at the hospital from blunt trauma and hypothermia and the defense would have you believe that it wasn’t Read who backed into him, but that O’Keefe got into a scuffle in the house where this house party happened, got into a fistfight with one of several people, and then was tossed out into the snow where he died."
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Dedham, Massachusetts – 25 June 2024
8. UPSOUND (English) Adam Lally, Prosecutor: "’I hit him. I hit him. I hit him. I hit him.’ Those were the words of the defendant.”
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9. Close up of video monitor showing a timeline of events leading to the death of John O’Keefe
UPSOUND (English) Adam Lally, Prosecutor: “12:37 is when the defendant leaves this voicemail.”
UPSOUND (English) Karen Read, Accused of killing police officer boyfriend: “John, I f***ng hate you!”
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Dedham, Massachusetts – 24 April 2024
11. Close up of a sweatshirt worn by a supporter of Read, with an image of a Massachusetts license plate that proclaims that that the state has framed her
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dedham, Massachusetts – 25 June 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Casey, The Associated Press:
the case and had made early on a decision that Read was … was the only suspect at the expense of others who they say might have been responsible for the crime. The defense would like you to believe that, O’Keefe was at the house party, beaten up and left for dead outside."
13. Supporters of Read lining the roadside, with one waving a pink-colored U.S. flag, her favorite color
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