Karen Read Retrial: Defense Questions Timeline of John O'Keefe's Death

Defense Strategy: Phone Lock Timeline

• 🎯 The defense's central question revolves around whether Karen Read's Lexus reversed or if John O'Keefe manually locked his phone.
• 💡 An accident reconstruction expert testified that O'Keefe locked his phone after Read's car was in reverse, suggesting he was not yet hit.
• ⚠️ However, during cross-examination, the expert admitted there's a 10% chance O'Keefe locked his phone before the alleged crash, leaving room for reasonable doubt.

Expert Testimony and Reasonable Doubt

• 🔬 The defense aims to use this expert testimony to cast doubt on the prosecution's narrative of events.
• ⚖️ The jury must now weigh the significance of the 10% probability in determining what truly happened that night.

Retrial Context

• 🔄 This testimony occurred during the retrial of Karen Read, who has pleaded not guilty.
• 💔 Reed is accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him to die after a night of drinking.
• ❓ Her first trial ended with a hung jury last year, indicating a lack of consensus among the initial jurors.
• 🗣️ Reed expressed hope that the defense's case would