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(NewsNation) — Witness grounds volition resume Wednesday successful the retrial of Karen Read, a Massachusetts pistillate accused of striking her constabulary serviceman fellow with her car and leaving him to dice successful a snowstorm successful 2022.
Several witnesses testified Tuesday aft prosecutors and defence lawyers delivered opening statements successful which they addressed theories astir the decease of John O'Keefe.
During opening statements, a authoritative said the defendant’s ain words volition bolster grounds that she killed O'Keefe 3 years ago.
A defence lawyer connected Tuesday called the lawsuit “the explanation of tenable doubt.”
Read has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter portion operating a conveyance nether the power and leaving the scene.
The proceedings has sparked statement implicit constabulary accountability, and a mistrial was declared last twelvemonth aft jurors said they were astatine an impasse and deliberating further would beryllium futile.
Karen Read case: What to cognize astir John O’Keefe’s death
Prosecutors alleged Read and O’Keefe had been drinking heavy earlier she dropped him disconnected astatine a enactment astatine the location of Brian Albert, a chap Boston officer, connected Jan. 29, 2022.
After letting him retired of the car, they allege Read struck O’Keefe with her SUV earlier driving away.
O’Keefe was recovered unresponsive successful a snowbank extracurricular the location the adjacent morning. He was pronounced dormant astatine a section infirmary aft suffering from hypothermia and a caput injury, officials said.
Prosecutors person alleged Read intentionally struck O’Keefe due to the fact that their narration had soured successful the period starring up to his death.
Read’s defence attorneys person dismissed that narrative, saying alternatively that respective different officers are down O’Keefe’s decease and have colluded with different cops to screen up his decease by framing his girlfriend.
NewsNation’s Anna Kutz, Caitlyn Becker, Safia Samee Ali, Jeff Arnold and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
