Read’s fate is in the jury’s hands following closing arguments Friday.
Offering their closing arguments Friday, lawyers in the
murder retrial hammered at the evidence, clashed over allegations of corruption and bias, and supplied diametrically opposed theories of what befell John O’Keefe on a snowy night in Canton three years ago.
Up at bat for Read’s team, defense attorney Alan Jackson wove a story of a “radioactive” lead investigator who purportedly ignored another viable suspect and pinned the blame on Read early on with “zero investigation.” According to Jackson, prosecutors cannot and would not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, was wounded in a collision…