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    A multiple motion hearing in the Karen Read case is set for today

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    DEDHAM – A judge will today consider a joint motion by prosecutors and the defense team for a new trial Karen Read to be postponed to April 1, 2025.

    Reading is a Mansfield woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, originally from Braintree.

    Judge Beverly Cannone declared a mistrial in the case in July. She scheduled a second trial to begin on January 27, 2025. The court confirmed last month that Cannone will oversee Read’s second trial.

    Cannone, at today’s hearing, will also consider several motions filed by the defense, including one asking that Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey be ordered to turn over personal emails and cellphone data before Read’s second trial.

    Why they want Karen Read’s retrial thrown out

    Earlier this month, the prosecution and defense filed a joint motion in Norfolk Superior Court asking for the trial to be postponed.

    “The joint motion will allow both the Commonwealth and the defense adequate time to prepare for trial, accommodate the schedule of new witnesses, including expert witnesses, allow for timely expert testing and disclosure prior to trial, and will resulting in a more efficient and effective presentation of evidence by both parties,” the motion states. The motion states that prosecutors plan to retest the evidence and have retained a biomechanical engineer who is expected to testify at trial.

    “These new Commonwealth experts are also expected to generate reports following testing and analysis, which Defense will need time to consider and possibly respond to, possibly with additional experts,” it said in motion.

    Defense seeks prosecutor’s phone records, transcripts seized in Read’s trial

    The defense filed several separate motions this week, including one to seek personal emails and cellphone data from Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey.

    The defense, in its motion, alleges that Morrissey used his personal email and cellphone to communicate with Stoughton District Court staff and judges while Read’s case was pending in that court.

    Will we hear more from the car expert about Karen Read’s Lexus SUV?

    In separate filings, Read’s lawyers are seeking relief from an order to seize a transcript of the sidebar that took place on April 14, 2024, and are also challenging the testimony of Shanon Burgess, the prosecution’s expert who examined Read’s Lexus SUV to Read.

    Karen Read is charged with second degree murder

    Read was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence and leaving the scene of injury and death after O’Keefe’s body was found outside the Canton home of a fellow Boston police officer , on January 29, 2022, during a snowstorm. Prosecutors say Read was drunk and angry when she intentionally hit him. But Read’s defense attorneys say she was charged in O’Keefe’s death.

    Read is also charged with manslaughter while driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of bodily injury and death. Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey recently announced that he has appointed Special Assistant District Attorney Hank Brennan to preside over Read’s retrial.

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