Canton Coverup Part 506: Karen Read Trial Day 1 – Opening Statements, Timothy Nuttall, Kerry Roberts

 

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• Bao, a YouTuber with no affiliation who got a ride home from Krusty Panties, was arrested outside for being in the buffer zone and streaming. He was not given a chance to leave and was being told where to safely go by 2 State Troopers. This is a blatant First Amendment violation.  (10 minute mark)

• Auntie Bev ruled that Hank Brennan cannot use actors to do dramatic readings of Karen Read’s text messages with John O’Keefe, but then also ruled that ARCCA could not be mentioned in Alan Jackson’s opening because he didn’t bring in some text messages. This caused a huge commotion that led to a sidebar, which apparently did nothing because the ruling remained the same.
• Paul O’Keefe was in rare douchebag form, mouthing things to Karen Read and staring me down on the way out of court. For the first time his wife Erin O’Keefe was with him since it was revealed that Paul uses these hearings to send secret love messages to his online girlfriend. Court officers admonished Paul for staring me down and told him not to do it again.

• This jury is VERY different from the first trial. I’m not sure what I’m allowed to say about them and what I’m not, so I will withhold my comments until another time.
• Laura McLaughlin is not sitting with the Commonwealth. As usual, Adam Lally is doing nothing at all.
• Hank Brennan’s opening was admittedly better than Adam Lally’s. He didn’t read off a script, he walked around a lot, and he made Karen Read sound a lot more dastardly than Lally did.
• Hank claimed in the opening that Karen Read pulled up 35 feet after dropping off John O’Keefe, not 62 feet like at last trial. He claims that Karen Read then put the car in neutral, before gunning it in reverse and striking John O’Keefe. This is even less believable than the theory at last trial. You can’t reach 24.2 mph in 62 feet, so you definitely can’t reach 24.2 mph in 35 feet. It also means that John O’Keefe stood there, waiting for his angry psycho girlfriend to run him over.
• Hank Brennan says that cell phone battery temperature of John’s phone will prove that Karen Read hit him. But then he went on to say that it didn’t come close to 18 degrees, which it would if it was outside in 18 degree weather for 5.5 hours.
• In perhaps the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard since Joseph Paul testified, Spanky said that John O’Keefe got hit by a car, didn’t fall for 20 seconds, and during those 20 seconds he read a text message from Jen McCabe.
• Spanky played an out of context clip from Dateline in which Karen Read explained why she was confused that morning and thought to herself “could I have clipped him?” She then went on to say that John did not appear to be mortally wounded, in order to make it sound like she was referring to when she dropped him off. In reality she was talking about when she found him at 6:04 and said that he didn’t look mortally wounded.
• Alan Jackson’s opening was masterful. Instead of stressing that Karen Read was framed he repeatedly stated that there was no collision. He also brought up reasonable doubt several times. This indicates a different strategy designed to focus on the fact that the Commonwealth can’t prove Karen Read hit John O’Keefe with her car, instead of focusing on the fact that he was beaten up inside the house and a coverup ensued afterwards.
• Michael Proctor will be heavily brought up by the defense as he was in the opening. They have a huge advantage since he has been fired, which Alan Jackson pointed out was for his conduct in the Read case, not any other case.
• By far the biggest bombshell on the day is that the defense’s new medical examiner is going to testify that John O’Keefe didn’t die from hypothermia. If John didn’t die from hypothermia it means he wasn’t out on the lawn for very long.
• The first witness this time was firefighter Timothy Nuttall, rather than Paul O’Keefe. He testified that on direct examination that Karen Read said “I hit him” 3 times in front of him as he was tending to John O’Keefe, and showed the exact point on the dash cam video where she said that. You cannot hear her say anything close to that, but you can hear her yelling “JEN!!”
• Nuttall was a disaster on cross examination. He admitted that he changed his story from Karen Read saying “I hit him” 2 times, to 3 times, AFTER speaking with Brian Tully.
• Jackson was toying with him repeatedly, getting him to make the ridiculous claim that his memory got better over time. This backfired when Nuttall couldn’t remember something he spoke with Brennan about yesterday.
• Nuttall reluctantly testified that John O’Keefe’s injuries are consistent with being punched in the face.
• Nuttall testified on re-direct with Brennan that Karen Read was running around telling lots of people “I hit him,” not just the one time he originally testified when she was right next to him.
• On re-cross Nuttall testified that he forgot to testify on direct examination that Karen Read was running around telling lots of people “I hit him,” because no one asked him. This is the first time he has EVER said this, and it directly contradicts what was seen on the dash cam video.
• Hank Brennan surprisingly called Kerry Roberts as his second witness. During the first trial she wasn’t called until several weeks into the trial and was never cross examined by the defense. Expect that to change in the retrial.
• Kerry Roberts testified that Karen Read told her “John’s dead” at 5 AM. Yet for some reason Karen then agreed to have Kerry and Jen McCabe help her search inside John’s house. 
• Kerry Roberts’ phone call to the police was played, and at no point did she tell Sgt. Goode that Karen Read had just confessed to her that she killed John O’Keefe.
• A major difference in the retrial thus far is that the Commonwealth is losing LOTS of objections, and the defense is having more of their objections sustained. Auntie Bev seems mildly peeved with Spanky.
• This trial should go faster than the last one, largely because Spanky is much faster than Lally and doesn’t ask as many stupid, pointless questions. He has not said “what, if any” once.