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The long cross-examination was not over yet for the lead detective on the stand. Karen Read's defense asked more accusatory questions for Trooper Michael Proctor. He admitted to the jury that his unprofessional text messages dehumanized her. The texts were sent during the months-long investigation looking into the death of John O'Keefe, her boyfriend. Proctor told jurors that it was a figure of speech. My emotions got the best of me.
The long cross-examination was not over yet for the lead detective on the stand. Karen Read's defense asked more accusatory questions for Trooper Michael Proctor. He admitted to the jury that his unprofessional text messages dehumanized her. The texts were sent during the months-long investigation looking into the death of John O'Keefe, her boyfriend. Proctor told jurors that it was a figure of speech. My emotions got the best of me.
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S1, EP125 "Lead Investigators Clear Things Up"Defense attorney Alan Jackson alleged that police manipulated video involving Karen Read's car. He was trying to raise doubts about law enforcement's handling of key evidence in this case. Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik admitted to jurors that the video was, in fact, inverted. But during redirect examination, he tried to clear things up dismissing the allegation that the video was intentionally manipulated and altered. Next, to the stand was Trooper Michael Proctor, the lead investigator on the case.
