Canton Coverup Part 476: Multiple Karen Read Jurors Condemn Criminal Justice System, Judge Cannone, Jury Foreman, In Light Of SJC Ruling Denying Motion To Dismiss On Double Jeopardy Grounds 

 

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I always operated under the assumption that Karen Read would have to go through with a second murder trial, and that the SJC and Feds would not save her. When you don’t have any expectations it’s hard to be disappointed. For that reason I wasn’t surprised or disappointed yesterday when the SJC ruled against Karen Read’s appeal of Judge Cannone’s decision not to dismiss the charges against her, despite five jurors coming forward and swearing that they voted to acquit Read on murder charges. According to the ruling “the jury clearly stated during deliberations that they had not reached a unanimous verdict on any of the charges.”

Thus they were basing their decision entirely on foreman Ryan Piotrowski’s note to Judge Cannone:

“Some members of the jury firmly believe that the evidence surpasses the burden of proof, establishing the elements of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. Conversely, others find the evidence fails to meet this standard and does not sufficiently establish the necessary elements of the charges.”

Some members of the jury believed she had been proven guilty on the charges – plural. Case closed as far as the SJC is concerned.

They also blamed the defense for not objecting immediately after the declaration of a mistrial.

Additionally, there were apparently 3 jurors who also reached out to the Commonwealth to confirm the 12-0 votes on counts 1 and 3, but after Adam Lally told them that they would have to go public in front of the court, they declined to communicate further.

In other words, Lally threatened them with doxxing and they all backed down. It’s somewhat understandable on the part of the jurors, but ultimately it’s cowardly. Whatever discomfort they’d experience from being doxxed by the McAlbert Mafia on Twitter pales in comparison to the discomfort Karen Read feels by being framed for a murder she didn’t commit.

Except it doesn’t matter what Piotrowski’s note to Judge Cannone said, because he hasn’t denied that they voted 12-0 to acquit Karen Read, despite having time to hire a Worcester based law firm and write an after David saying that he immediately began following pro-McAlbert Twitter accounts as soon as the trial ended, and feared for his safety.

Additionally, according to a juror I spoke with, (who was initially one of the 6 not guilty votes on manslaughter, before switching to guilty, and then back to not guilty for the final 8-4 vote) he and another juror asked the foreman if they could ask Judge Cannone to clarify if they could acquit on two counts and hang on the third. The foreman, a former police officer who left policing after being hit by a car, was appointed by Judge Cannone as foreman and thus was not eligible to be chosen as an alternate, reportedly told the two jurors that they would not be doing that. Effectively he acted as the gatekeeper and declared himself King of the jury, overstepping his boundaries and responsibilities as foreman. I texted this juror yesterday and he told me that, “It’s too bad that the directions were ambiguous and the foreman led the group to believe it had to be all or nothing.”

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The SJC also ruled that the note written by the foreman did not request clarification on whether a partial verdict could be returned.

But we now know that two jurors wanted him to ask for clarification in the note and the Chat GPT foreman refused.

As for blaming the defense, there was literally zero time for them to object.

A juror who has previously spoken with WBZ reporter Kristina Rex spoke out yesterday, placing the blame on both the jury and the judge.

The truth and the legal process ramifications “appear to be in conflict.” Truer words have never been spoken. And that’s the problem here – in Massachusetts the truth doesn’t seem to matter. Because there is no debate from anyone that they voted to acquit her 12-0. There was just a major miscommunication that Karen Read now must pay the price for, despite the fact that she is arguably the only one who wasn’t at fault here.

As the juror pointed out, they are not professional jurors.

How were they to know what they could and couldn’t do? This was the first murder trial for all of them, and the foreman, the only person with the ability to communicate with the judge, was telling people in the room that they weren’t allowed to ask the judge questions. They needed leadership and guidance and they didn’t get it.

As the juror pointed out, all Judge Cannone had to do was ask them to clarify if they were hung on all of the charges or just one of them, and they would’ve gladly told her.

Unlike the jurors, this isn’t Judge Cannone’s first murder trial, or first mistrial. She knew that they were inexperienced civilians, but she didn’t help guide them at all.

Another juror, who has never before issued a statement, also reached out to Rex to express her dismay that this allegedly progressive state had such an archaic criminal justice system.

“It would not infringe on the role of the jury to require all trial judges to provide clear instructions that help jurors comprehend all aspects of the job they are tasked with.”

That’s just common sense. But in this state, a panel of 7 liberal justices resisted any reforms of our clearly flawed criminal justice system, knowing full well that it means that a woman who a jury intended to acquit must once again be tried for murder. When it comes to our criminal justice system and the way we trample on civil liberties in this state, Massachusetts is arguably the most conservative state in the country.

However, in good news the SJC denial was immediately upstaged by the announcement that the Karen Read defense team had filed a motion to add my Attorney Mark Bederow to their team pro hoc vice.

Bederow is not barred in Massachusetts and must be vouched for by a Massachusetts attorney (David Yannetti). In my case this was a simple rubber stamp from the judge. However, Auntie Bev gave the defense a hard time about Robert Alessi being added pro hoc vice, and he wasn’t already representing someone she hated (me) who was tangentially related to the Read case. So I can anticipate her attempting to prevent this from happening.

Bederow is a brilliant legal mind who has done a tremendous job with my case thus far. His online analysis of the Read case during the first trial was must view content on YouTube because of the insightful angles he used to break down the case every night on the Young Jurks. He would be a tremendous addition to the Read team, and a tremendous loss for content consumers during the trial if he were allowed to join the defense.

Bederow brought this to my attention last week to make sure I was OK with it, and I was. My interests are not adverse in any way to Karen Read’s interests. There is nothing I can do to save myself that would involve damaging her, and vice versa. My entire defense is that everything I did was legal and constitutionally protected speech. If I were to suggest that Karen Read made me do anything that I did it would not only be a lie, it would be an admittance that I did something wrong, and I will never, ever do that.

I don’t like crying about the refs because it doesn’t change the outcome of the game and it makes me feel like more of a loser. The Eagles showed us in the Super Bowl that the way to overcome the Chiefs and their referee allies was to beat them by so much that the refs couldn’t save them. At trial the facts will overwhelmingly favor Karen Read and she will be acquitted. We don’t need the SJC or Auntie Bev’s help. Karen Read has already been acquitted for two of the counts once, and there’s no reason to believe she won’t be again. Yesterday morning Karen Read was facing 3 counts, including murder, and today she woke up facing 3 counts, including murder. The only difference is that her legal team just became stronger, and this time around they’ve learned from their mistakes and won’t leave her acquittal it up to the SJC.