DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) – 7NEWS spoke with Legal Analyst Tom Hoopes about what the defense did this time around in the Karen Read murder retrial compared to the first.
“I think that they had a chance to do a dry run the last time and they tuned it up a little better,” said Hoopes. “Their experts were a little better, they refined their message a little better, and they may have just gotten a better jury selection. Sometimes the mix of jury can make a difference. The prosecution put in as good a case as it could put in, [arguably] put in a better case than it did the last time, but it just didn’t have enough. There was just probably too many problems from the police investigation side to overcome by any prosecutor, no matter how great or good their efficient and effective they were.”…