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Defense Karen Read On Monday, the team put an enemy witness in the form of a police officer in Boston who worked at the Canton Police Department, Morning Karen read, and two friends discovered John O’Keefe’s dead under a crowd of snow.
Kelly Dever, who was on duty that morning but did not play any role in the investigation, had previously told the FBI that she saw two key figures in the case near the reading of SUV Sallyport at the Canton Police Headquarters, “Wild long”. They were ATF agent Brian Higgins-Koji had a flirted relationship with reading behind O’Keeefe’s back and then Canton Police Chief Kenneth Berkowitz.
They would be placed next to the vehicle before other investigators found fragments that corresponded to Read’s rear lights at the crime scene.
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Police officer in Boston Kelly Dever, earlier with the police, testifies during the Karen murder read in Norfolk Superior Court, in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Monday, June 2, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse
Dever testified that she immediately withdrew that statement because FBI agents She showed her a time lane that indicated that she had left the job before the whole Lexus had arrived. Then she accused Read’s defensive team of trying to force her to lie about it on the podium.
“You threatened to charge me with a false wing during our phone call before the first trial if I was not lying on the booth right now,” said the defender Alan Jackson, from a witness booth. “I tell you, I haven’t seen anything. In fact, the time lane provided me with proof that it was not true.”
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Read denied that her team pressed Dever on Monday afternoon in a statement from reporters outside the courtroom.
“We invited her to testify to what she said to other authorities, and she just wanted her to be honest with us as she did with them,” she said. “Even today, it tells us that it was a lie.”
She later claimed that Dever seems like a “compromised person”.
Dever was sometimes visibly frustrated, jerked at the stop and at one point shot at Jackson because of the wrong draw of his name.
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Karen Read sits with her defensive team, on the left, Robert Alessi, Elizabeth Little, Alan Jackson and David Yannetti during her murder at Superior Court in Norfolk, Dedham, Massachusetts, Monday, June 2, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse
“It’s like you can’t remember my name, I don’t remember,” she said.
Defense tries to show the jurors that there is a reasonable doubt in the findings of the investigation – noting that the leading detective has been discharged for sending inappropriate texts and that it is Canton police He made a number of unpleasant wrong steps at the beginning of the investigation, before the state police arrived.
Their position is that her SUV never hit O’Keefe, and something or someone else caused death injuries. In their first trial, they also claimed that the police were framed read.
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Officer John O’Keefe poses for the official head. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is currently being tried for murder after being found dead outside the Massachusetts house in January 2022. (Police Directorate in Boston)
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“[Dever] A perfectly illustrated defense theory is a cunning police officers lying to help the prosecution, “said Mark Bederow, a criminal defense lawyer based in New York followed by the case.
She called her testimony a “disaster” and asked if they had pressured her colleagues in the implementation of the law to withdraw to their story, not defense.
“He was a risky move to call her, but her behavior was so awful that she was combined with what she acknowledged to have told the Feds, she probably helped defend,” Bederow told Fox News Digital.
Karen read during the Norfolk Superior Court trial, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald by AP, Pool)
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Retired Judge of the Higher Court of Massachusetts and Professor Boston College Jack Lu called Dever “profile in courage” and that putting it on the pedestal suggests despair of defense.
“She’s outside the central caste, she says she confirmed that the previous memory was actually irrefutably wrong,” he told Fox News Digital. “If they say she damaged her future ability to testify to being smiling.”
She also faces a return blow. Lu pointed to a Facebook group called Free Karen Read with more than 40,000 members, where the user invited others to invite the Police Commissioner’s Office if “they believe that Kelly Dever should get an ax”.
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Dever could not contact the comment immediately.
It is up to the jurors to decide whether she is true or when she first made her statements to the FBI.
