After promising the world that the absolute proof that defendant Karen Read is absolutely innocent of charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and everything else, the defense was able to present half of their witnesses on Friday to a collective “WTF?” from those watching.
I guess we’ve been hearing the hype train from Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney and others for so long. That the case would never go to trial because the FBI was going to come in and stop things and put the district attorney in jail, that the prosecution had no evidence of Read’s guilt and the defense wouldn’t need to put on a case, that if they did put on a case, Lucky Loughran would save the day.
Loughran’s testimony was instantly doomed. After testifying that he didn’t see John O’Keefe’s body in the front lawn of Brian Albert’s house from the driver’s seat of his snowplow that was equipped with high powered lights and great viewing angles, Loughran couldn’t see across the courtroom to a large screen projection of evidence some twenty feet from him.
That pretty much seemed to sum up the defense’s case.
Loughran went on to testify that he didn’t report a Ford Edge that was supposedly illegally parked in front of Brian Albert’s house out of “respect” for the Albert family. This was a requirement of his duties as a snowplow driver and, if he had made the report, he would have provided an actual fact to work with instead of more questionable testimony in the case.
He also was careless that night and somehow ran his plow into a basketball hoop, despite claiming to know it was there and having the ability to avoid it.
Eyesight and failing to report issues aside, Loughran also could not explain why the times he was presenting at trial differed so widely from the times he gave in an interview to a federal agency looking into Read’s prosecution. With hours he supposedly was at the scene significantly changing between reports.
Things didn’t get any better for dog bite expert Dr. Marie Russell, who testified that her opinion was that the wounds on John O’Keefe’s right arm were absolutely dog bites or dog scratches, or something related to a dog, but couldn’t account for the fact that O’Keefe’s clothing over the supposed animal marks was not damaged.
Digital forensics expert Richard Green then admitted that he had no certifications for the digital software he had been using to examine phones related to the case and at one point had to call tech support for help.
He then focused on claiming that Jennifer McCabe indeed made a Google search at 2:27AM, despite the fact that the inventor of the software (and chief coder) had previously explained why it wasn’t possible and the search did not happen at that time.
The expert also apologized to McCabe as the deletions he claimed in previous testimony that McCabe made to phone calls on her phone were impossible for a user to make.
All in all, three promised witnesses that would assure victory for Karen Read wiffed hard when given the chance to hit the ball out of the park on Friday. We’ll see if they can recover with the last three witnesses in her defense on Monday.
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spoilers, they won’t. They will not recover and their case was dead to start with. They knew this coming in to the case and that’s why they got TB to harass people. Can’t win on the law or the facts, try intimidation.
Once they convict her… then the fun begins. The only question is who will flip first.
Read on TB or TB on Read. Will they flip on their lawyers and wrap the whole gang up for conspiracy?
See the thing is, once you have a guilty verdict, Read could get serious time. If they dangle a carrot of less time, better condition, heck even a cookie she might turn on TB
TB for all his bravado is full of it. His ego will deflate so fast when he realises that he going to jail for a long stretch. Will he turn and point fingers at Rean and her brother, their lawyer or other former friends? All to save himself a long stretch at Longbin?
Best of all? The courts know they need to set an example on these people and what they did to make sure the next person who decides to intimidate the witnesses, thinks twice. They will get no mercy in court only justice.
How on earth could a jury find her guilty beyond a reasonable doubt with the weak case the prosecution presented? The defense really could have rested rather confidently without any further testimony.
Even if a conviction were secured, the defense will have no problem convincing the appellate court to overturn it on evidentiary grounds.