Karen Read answered several questions from reporters outside of Dedham’s Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday after the prosecution in her murder retrial rested its case.
Read, 45, of Mansfield, is accused of striking John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her Lexus SUV and leaving him to die alone in a blizzard outside of a house party in Canton at the home of fellow officer Brian Albert on Jan. 29, 2022, following a night of drinking.
Prosecutors rested their case Thursday morning after Dr. Judson Welcher, a crash reconstructionist expert with Aperture LLC, was dismissed from the stand after three days. He most notably testified to the prosecution that damage to Read’s SUV was “consistent with a collision” involving O’Keefe if the vehicle was moving faster than 8 mph.
The prosecution, led this time by Hank Brennan, has takena more streamlined, focused approach through the first six weeks of Read’s second trial. A mistrial was declared last year after jurors said they were at an impasse and deliberating further would be futile…