A crash reconstruction expert on Tuesday provided jurors his analysis of Karen Read’s vehicle the night her boyfriend was killed in her second murder trial.
Read, 45, is accused of backing her SUV into her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, 46, and leaving him to die on a snowy night in the front yard of another officer’s home after she dropped him off at a party there in January 2022. Her lawyers say she was framed in a police conspiracy and that someone inside the home that night killed him.
A mistrial was declared last year. Read’s second trial on charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene has so far appeared to follow similar contours to the first.
Vehicle data a point of contention
Before the jury was brought in Tuesday, Judson Welcher of the accident reconstruction, biomechanics and digital forensics company Aperture LLC took the stand for a last-minute voir dire — a process used to determine his competency and the evidence he planned on discussing…