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Karen Read's attorney grilled the state police sergeant who worked the investigation into the death of John O'Keefe. Her defense was nitpicking at what officers did and did not do, as her lawyers tried to raise reasonable doubt in the case against her. Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik explained when and how his team impounded the defendant's SUV. Prosecutors alleged this was the murder weapon that killed John O'Keefe.
Karen Read's attorney grilled the state police sergeant who worked the investigation into the death of John O'Keefe. Her defense was nitpicking at what officers did and did not do, as her lawyers tried to raise reasonable doubt in the case against her. Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik explained when and how his team impounded the defendant's SUV. Prosecutors alleged this was the murder weapon that killed John O'Keefe.
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S1, EP122 "Police Sergeant Faces Cross-Examination"The cross-examination had begun on the state police sergeant who assisted in the investigation into the death of John O'Keefe. Karen Read's defense team tried to raise all kinds of red flags about this case and how the 16-year Boston police officer died. Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik recalled that investigators initially thought John O'Keefe was severely beaten before he was found in the snow. But physical evidence and witness statements turned their attention to Karen Read as a possible suspect.
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S1, EP123 "Scrutinizing Police Conduct"Karen Read's attorney grilled the state police sergeant who worked the investigation into the death of John O'Keefe. Her defense was nitpicking at what officers did and did not do, as her lawyers tried to raise reasonable doubt in the case against her. Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik explained when and how his team impounded the defendant's SUV. Prosecutors alleged this was the murder weapon that killed John O'Keefe.
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S1, EP124 "Inverted, Altered And Manipulated Video"For a third day in a row a state police sergeant was testifying for the prosecution team. Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik was among the main investigators who looked into the death of veteran Boston police officer, John O'Keefe. Karen Read's Defense went into detail about surveillance footage that captured her car being impounded by police. Bukhenik confirmed that he was with Trooper Michael Proctor, lead investigator on the case, when police impounded the defendant's car for more testing.
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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.
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S1, EP121 "More On The State's Murder Investigation"Jurors saw details about the crime scene through the photos that were displayed in court. Prosecutors wanted to show that it was possible for the defendant to have used her car to kill her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, in a hit-and-run. On the stand was Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik, the supervisor to the main detective on this case. Later under cross-examination Karen Read's defense had probing questions for this Massachusetts State Police trooper.
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S1, EP120 "Drinks Karen Read Had"Hours before John O'Keefe lost his life, he and his girlfriend, Karen Read, were out at a bar with friends. Jurors in her murder trial got a glimpse of how many drinks she had, raising the idea that this could have led to a hit-and-run and John's death. Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Yuriy Bukhenik alleged that she had six alcoholic drinks in less than two hours. Police figured this out by retrieving bar receipts and watching surveillance video.
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S1, EP119 "Reviewing Surveillance Video"Prosecutors turned the jury's attention to surveillance video from the hours leading up to John O'Keefe's death. This helped them put together a timeline of events which they hoped would convince the jury that the defendant killed her boyfriend in a deadly hit-and-run. Investigators collected footage from different locations around town to get a sense of how the defendant was moving about in the lead-up to O'Keefe's death.
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S1, EP118 "Seizing The Black SUV"A state police sergeant testified about the early days of the investigation into John O'Keefe's death. As law enforcement interviewed Karen Read, investigators were seizing her car and bringing it in to be examined. Jurors watched video of Read's car being brought into police custody. They impounded her large black Lexus SUV for the early stages of their criminal investigation, just hours after John O'Keefe was pronounced dead.
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