Karen Read Is Free!

Wow!!!!!

Nicole Kidman BETTER not play her in the Netflix miniseries.

This is surprising

The commonwealth conspiracy? She's the one who made his death out to be a conspiracy

When did she get probation? I heard the judge talk about a sentencing date next week.

Bitch did it.

[quote]This is surprising

Not really. This is in ultra-liberal woke Massachusetts.

The woke glorify and sympathize with murderers/violent criminals, especially if they're black or female.

And John O'Keefe was a white male and cop to boot -- three things that the woke left absolutely abhor.

As the verdict was being read on camera inside the courtroom, you could hear the screams outside.

[quote] During that [US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts ] investigation, federally hired accident-reconstruction experts determined O’Keefe’s injuries were not consistent with having been sustained in a vehicle strike and that the damage to Read’s SUV taillight was not consistent with having resulted from a pedestrian hit.

[quote] the state’s own medical examiner testified that she did not find evidence on O’Keefe’s body that suggested he had been hit by a car; aside from abrasions on his arm, he had no significant injuries below his neck.

Massachusetts here. We recognize a messy drunk liar pretty easily and this whole thing has been a travesty. The prosecution did an excellent job with this case.

The victim's family, the witnesses and the jurors were all doxxed, harassed and intimidated by a blogger and a bunch of people paid to stand outside the courthouse wearing pink and threaten them all. Read paid for it all, and that will all come out in the NEXT TRIAL (the blogger has been charged with many counts of witness intimidation).

Yes, R7, because Caucasian male murderers/violent criminals NEVER get acquitted of murders they actually committed.

If you had certain evidence of her guilt, why didn't you present it to the prosecution team? I mean, if Read is as obviously guilty as you seem to feel.

Where is the dog?

[quote] Read has spent her life savings, liquidated her retirement funds, sold her house, and relied on donations to afford three-plus years of trial costs. Her lawyers have deferred much of their fees.

Her contract with 20/20 or Deadline will cover it all.

I'm continually baffled (but amused) by the trolls who try to make this about race. O'Keefe was a white man who was killed by white people in a crime that additional white people tried to blame on another white person.

I think she’s innocent actually.

The Commonwealth did a shitty job. Beyond a reasonable doubt is a high standard, but it’s the way the law’s written in Massachusetts and the prosecution didn’t prove their case. The state’s medical examiner would not support the prosecution. The Fed’s reconstruction experts didn’t back the prosecutor either. There’s just too much doubt to convict.

Right or wrong, Turtleboy’s case has been outrageously slow-walked by the State keeping him in jail for months on trumped-up charges, allegedly based on an ex’s coerced testimony. I’m assuming his vindication will cost Norfolk County a lot more money than crowd control around the courthouse has cost during the trials.

Something happened involving a lot of cops, some of them dirty. The town of Canton’s PD is a shitshow. Change isn’t easy in small towns. Canton has to deal with it, though, because it has pissed off a lot of residents. Read will have some kind of celebrity afterlife but I don’t see her transforming her trials, literal and actual, into a career. But what do I know?

It’s strange. Massachusetts is one of the safest states in the country and Boston the country’s safest big city, and yet our cops, from the FBI (Whitey Bulger) to the Staties (scandal after scandal after scandal), to the local departments are way too often corrupt and even more often incompetent., as here.

She may or may not be innocent. The jury found her not guilty.

R7, and yet Massachusetts has a low crime rate compared to most red states

Why are the red states so violent?

R19 The state’s medical examiner would not support the prosecution.

That will always be rough for the prosecution. Always.

R19 His response is going to be racist, watch.

IT'S LIKE OJ ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!!

I hope the big picture film is a black comedy.

That would work r23.

Fuck Aidan Kearney and his bale of screeching turtles.

She’s innocent, imho.

The guy didn’t die because she ran him over. He died because something happened in that house, & the family dog or some random dog joined in on the attack.

Those marks on his arms are conducive to animal bites, & a bunch of dirty cops attempted to frame her.

Glad the jurors reached the correct conclusion!

Ugh, I accidentally WWed r11. For the record, I disagree and I’m glad she was acquitted. I’m extremely suspicious of that weirdo cop family in the house…the ones who never came out even during hours of emergency personnel traipsing in their front yard.

Karen Read didn't hit anybody with her car.

She may be unlikable and a black out drunk but John was killed in that house.

Again, John O'Keefe died from blunt trauma to the BACK of his head and hypothermia. It's not physically possible that the existing wounds were caused by an SUV.

That Canton/State Trooper bunch is notoriously crooked. Now that Karen is innocent, the McCabe and Albert families are looking at some trouble.

I still expect one of the cops will die while "cleaning his gun".

"Massachusetts here. We recognize a messy drunk liar pretty easily..."

Well, I'd get your messy-drunk-liar 'dar a tune up, 'cause there was a whole bunch of 'em at 34 Fairview that you're not recognizing.

She’s not “innocent.” She’s not guilty.

R28, she did it. No one else is looking at any trouble besides her because she's the one who is guilty.

She's the only person who had a motive

Did she scratch him to death, R31?

R31, no one on "our side" is arguing that ANYONE had a motive for murder. A drunken, jealous Masshole sucker-punched a romantic rival and got a whole lot more than he was bargaining for. That's it. That's all.

He was not hit by Karens' SUV, the trauma was to the BACK of his head.

How do you explain that r31?

It was a bunch of drunken asshole cops and for whatever reason he took a beating. He had a beef with the crazy/violent nephew.

And what about the dog? According to the Alberts, John never entered the house. Where did the scratches come from?

My horse lives in Milton (next town) and my rich housewife barn mates have been obsessed with this since the beginning. It was when the basement at the Alberts' house was gutted and the house sold quickly that I knew.

The truth will out in good time.

I followed the first trial. The defense storyline of what happened was so wacky, I could not believe it got traction. I lived in Massachusetts for 10 years and had fond memories of it, but seeing and hearing the characters in this case has cured me of any nostalgia for the place.

Unfortunately, police corruption runs rampant in many large cities & small towns across America.

I’m pleased she has been acquitted. This case smelled like B.S. from jump street.

I hope she can successfully move on with her life, and heal from such a travesty. It won’t be easy for her, but she can be happy again, & wish nothing but the very best for her.

She needs to relocate and start her life over.

I just realize realize this ho is named Karen. This has endless Hollywood mythological potential.

Even if I believed she got away with it, the corruption is more disturbing. In fact even worse. I don't believe she did it but I feel sure there were people along the way who believed she was and were willing to help it along. Who convinced them?

Not confident it will make much difference.

I don't think she did it, either. It sounded like the other cops, prosecutor, and judge all conspired to frame her.

So I suppose there's zero chance of any investigation into what actually happened.

Invited to a premeditated murder-party

The cops inside the party murdered the other cop and planned to frame the drunky wife

She'd be well advised to settle, as the outcome is likely to be much different in the civil case.

She could make ten million in a few months on Onlyfans.

R7 Striving for stoopid. Dumb fuck.

R41: "Invited to a premeditated murder-party. The cops inside the party murdered the other cop and planned to frame the drunky wife."

Nah. A fight got out of hand and led to an accidental death. They put him on the lawn and hoped others would assume he was hit by a snow plow. But then Karen Read showed up at the scene, and began wondering aloud, "Did I hit him? Could I have hit him?" They didn't even have to pivot to Plan B. She did it for them, in her grief and confusion. All they had to do was keep their mouths shut.

But luckily, they're not the brightest of people, and thought it would be just fine to have a group text chat in which they talked about everything except how horrible it was that their dear friend had JUST DIED. Seriously, read that text chat and try to imagine what it should have looked like: "Isn't it it awful that he was right outside and we didn't know? We could have helped him. I don't know how I'm going to live with this." Nope. Nothing.

Why couldn’t it be: she dropped him off. He staggered a few steps towards the house , slipped and fell. Hit the back of his head. His phone location info says it never went further than that. A while later, the homeowner let the dogs out to pee, they found the body still alive but unconscious. Made those bite marks on his arm, and then were called back into the house by the homeowner. He didn’t notice the body because drunk or it was covered with a layer of snow, whatever. Nobody is the bad guy but then they decided to get creative.

R45, a "fight" sounds plausible.

but the dog bites are some seriously weighed evidence.

and dog-bite expertise is such a practiced and common court-room procedure — ever since the arrival of uber, door-dash and amazon drivers who show up after sundown near fences that aren't that tall.

fuck that krazy-eyed sergeant and his bullshit group texts.

the amount of grief-porn cops subject the public to for fallen first-responders

and these overpaid pensioners so shamelessly desecrate one of their own "brothers" like this?

loved the jurisdiction’s verdict-cheers overheard inside the courtroom

hey, karen read got kevin spacey's lawyer

The crowd reaction is great at r48.

But it does seem like we are beginning to see extrajudicial juries, making themselves felt in this country

R47, oh, I absolutely believe the dog bites happened, too, during the altercation. The dog-bite expert was the strongest expert the defense had, IMO.

It's all under investigation by the FBI and has been for a while. It's not closed.

Fired State Trooper Michael Proctor trying (and failing) to defend himself.

I remember reading around the time of the first trial that one of the female party-goer's Apple watch captured her in a frenzy of activity at her home after the incident, like she was nervously pacing around. IIRC, her BP and pulse were also elevated. I found that interesting. Wouldn't most people pass out drunk or sit in a dazed state of disbelief after a night like that? Unless you knew your friends were up to no good.

As someone in the trial pointed out, the dogs would have had to have no lower teeth.

The deceased's brother is hot AF.

I'm sure you know more about dog bites than Dr. Marie Russell, the forensic pathologist who has seen hundreds of dog bites over the decades of her work for the state of Rhode Island, R55.

R11 is right, the conspiracy theories are so insane. Let’s pretend we have a reason to want to off a fellow police officer in some big conspiracy, we could stage a strange car accident and leave his body exactly where she had backed up, and all of the other crazy texts etc, or we could inject the person with fentanyl which is plentiful and which police officers would have access too. The whole thing is so crazy, I couldn’t understand while Turtle Boy who is a champion of white supremacists and misogynists but if he is getting paid that makes much more sense. She was drunk, she back into him and either didn’t notice or was all pissed off and assumed it was a little tap, he fell, end of story, Drunk sloppy people. And obviously the police in Canton are a mess evidenced by the fact that they were all drunk, drunk driving, partying together in Canton during a snow storm, and the crazy texts, but I am pretty sure you would find the same in Philadelphia, St. Louis, etc.

Except, r58, the forensic evidence shows that the injuries to the body are inconsistent with your version of events.

R57 That whore, yes I do. I thought they only found pig DNA on the clothing

Dog bites with no puncture wounds? Even the expert witness conceded that is not normal. And no dog DNA anywhere. And tail light fragments all planted after the body was moved? They were so clever they even thought to impregnate the clothing fibers with the matching microplastics. Those Canton cops ah so wicked shady.

Anyone saying he was attacked by a dog or people in the house didn't watch the expert review the victim's phone data. Karen's SUV stopped outside the house at 12:24. John didn't get out and walk according to his Apple health and location data until 12:31. At 12:32 John locked his phone and within a few seconds at 12:32 Karen went in reverse at 24 miles per hour. John's phone never moved from the flagpole after 12:32 and the location was never in the house. Those theories are unsupported. Karen has lied, changed her story, and admitted she could have hit him.

What about the Apple Health data, R62? Eighty steps and three flights of stairs. And how about Karen's phone connecting to the Wi-Fi at John's house at 12:36? We could play this game all day.

Not all day. The defense whataboutisms would run thin. But it doesn't matter because they worked on the jury. There's still the civil suit. Do you think Karen will make it her life's mission to find the real killers?

Now would be an excellent time for Karen to buy a home in Florida - prices are down, lots of inventory and the property will be exempt from seizure to satisfy any impending judgement. She'll also need a means for sheltering the proceeds from all the upcoming media deals.

R33, Karen had a motive