Defense pushes for charges to be dismissed in Karen Read case

Описание: (9 Aug 2024)
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Dedham, Massachusetts – 9 August 2024
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1. Various of the judge entering the courtroom
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Marty Weinberg, Defense Attorney:
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"Prosecutors have strong evidence that the jury was, in fact, deadlocked. In fact, at an impasse on count two. The prosecutor has strong evidence that, in fact, the jury was not at an impasse on counts one and three. They have to meet the burden of demonstrating to the court that they gave you all of the opportunities to the declaration of a mistrial. And they shouldn't want us to admit that a search for justice in this courthouse where we don't want somebody who's found innocent has to face a second trial for the very same offense."
3. Karen Read listening to the defense attorney during the hearing
4. Wide of the courtroom
5. Read and her attorney waiting for the hearing to begin
6. Wide of the courtroom as Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally prepares to address the court
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Lally, Prosecutor:
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"Simply put, Your Honor, what council is proposing, as far as what the court should do, is prohibited by the rules, is prohibited by the law, is prohibited by the development of case law over the decades and centuries as to what is permitted. Certainly, the Commonwealth, nor anyone wants to try someone who's been acquitted by the jury of his peers or retry them for the same offense. That's not what happened. There was no verdict returned by this jury."
8. Read interacts with relatives and her attorneys after the hearing
STORYLINE:
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Karen Read case have returned to court focused on jury deliberations that led to a mistrial on charges that she killed her police officer boyfriend.

Read is accused of ramming into John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a January 2022 snowstorm.

In a hearing Friday, a defense attorney argued four jurors have said the jury unanimously reached a not guilty verdict on second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly accident and were deadlocked on the remaining manslaughter charge.

Prosecutors meanwhile urged the judge to dismiss the motion.

Judge Beverly Cannone said she would take the matter under advisement.

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