Digital forensics expert’s credibility questioned in Karen Read murder trial

Defense Karen Read She withdrew her attacks on unexpected new professional findings on Tuesday, which is contrary to the time lane, which they say proves that she did not hit her boyfriend John O’Keeefea with her Lexus SUV and left him to die in the blink of 2022.

Shanon Burgess, an expert on a vehicle and a digital forensics’ opening phone, returned to the booth on the second day of the brutal cross -examination with the defender Robert Alessi behind the wheel.

Alessi emphasized the inconsistencies in Burgess’s biography and revealed that the wrong date was on the time lane that was supposed to be accurate “on the other”. And nothing in the Burgess findings directly indicated that a fatal collision had occurred.

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Karen Read arrives at the superior court of Norfolk County in Dedham, Massachusetts, May 20, 2025. Read was charged with murdering his boyfriend police officer Boston by deliberately inserting his SUV into him. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

“While sitting here today, no information in the black frame you have instructed in direct testimony indicates that on January 29, there was a collision,” Alessi said. “Whether?”

“Not in itself,” Burgess replied.

Special prosecutor Hank Brennan pumped the brakes when he returned to diverting the examination, asking the shortcomings he found in the previous analysis that pointed out that O’Keeefe, a Boston police officer, communicated with the iPhone after the prosecutor said he had been striking the defender.

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Defender Robert Alessi sets the point while cross -examining digital forensics analyst Shargess during the trial of Karen Read 20. May 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/pool)

Mathematics distorted from the alignment, Burgess testified. AND defense expert He relied on the call records to synchronize internal lessons at Read’s Lexus SUV and O’Keefe’s iPhone.

But that doesn’t work, Burgess explained, because the expert used the calls he read when her car was switched off, so the inner hour of the vehicle had nothing to do with them. Their time was a product of an inner clock on her smartphone, which he said was synchronized with Lexus the next time she turned it on.

These calls indicated a deviation of just one or two seconds between the vehicle and the victim’s phone.

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Digital forensics analyst Shargess watches defenders Robert Alessia during a trial for reading Karen on May 20, 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/pool)

Using other metrics, including user data stored in Lexus that previous analysts failed to identify and recover, the variant is inflated at 21 and 29 seconds, Burgess testified.

It is unclear whether Burgess’s credibility has run out of gases with the jurors after Alessi has found internet biographies that wrongly said he graduated from the University of Alabama.

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“This expert has to go home,” said Grace Edwards, defender of the Massachusetts that follows the case. She said the prosecution risked the chance that the jurors were considered “shady” and neglected their findings, although no bachelor graduate graduated in his area.

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“This is Trial of murder“She told Fox News Digital.” And the fact that he got the beginning and end date on the slider, only screaming his work is messy and he does not check his work. ”

She pointed to Burgess’ apparent mix bits and bytes when relating to the data obtained from SUV Reada.

“Lawyer Alessi has set the trap he has entered, which destroyed Burgess on the booth,” Edwards said. “Precision is important when you are a technical expert.”

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A special prosecutor Hank Brennan was shown during the Karen Read murder trial on May 12, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via AP/Boap)

Burgess testified that he did not have a bachelor’s degree, despite his official biological opening and the old LinkedIn account, which seems to be deactivated in the last few days, citing otherwise.

Brennan tried to repair the damage by showing the jurors two updated resumes, from last year and this year, which Burgess filed in defense before the trial, showing his credentials. No one claimed he had a diploma.

“Have you ever heard of Bill Gates?? “Brennan asked.

“Yes,” Burgess replied, referring to the founder of billionaire Microsoft, who famed of Harvard before graduation.

Burgess eventually said he would like to get a diploma one day, but “work, family and life” are still prevented.

“As a personal goal, I would like to finish my bachelor’s degrees,” Burgess testified. “But again, work and life becomes in a way.”

After leaving the witness booth, Brennan played three reading clips, discussing the time lane with his own words for a TV documentary. She said she believed O’Keefe died around 12:30 in the morning on January 29.

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The next witness was Christina Hanley, an analyst at the Massachusetts Criminal Lab for examined the broken glass found near O’Keefe’s remains at 34 Fairview Road in Canton, about 20 miles South of Boston.

Hanley is expected to return to the booth on Wednesday at 9am.