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The State's final witness was still under cross-examination. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello testified that the injuries she examined on John O'Keefe's body could be consistent with both a hit-and-run and a severe beating involving blows to his head. Prosecutors finally rested their case against Karen Read after two months of testimony. The spotlight now turned to her defense who tried to cast doubt on the State's case that she intentionally killed her boyfriend with her car.
The State's final witness was still under cross-examination. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello testified that the injuries she examined on John O'Keefe's body could be consistent with both a hit-and-run and a severe beating involving blows to his head. Prosecutors finally rested their case against Karen Read after two months of testimony. The spotlight now turned to her defense who tried to cast doubt on the State's case that she intentionally killed her boyfriend with her car.
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S1, EP168 "The Snowplow Driver"A snowplow driver testified that he was working in the very area where John O'Keefe was found in the snow. But he told jurors, he did not see a body on the front lawn. Brian Loughran claimed to have passed the Albert home in the early morning hours the day John O'Keefe died. Not once, not twice, but three times... And he said there was not a body on the front lawn. His testimony contradicted the timeline of events presented by the State.
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S1, EP164 "Undetermined Manner Of Death"Jurors listened to testimony from the medical doctor who performed the autopsy on John O'Keefe. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello found that he sustained blunt force trauma to the head and suffered from hypothermia. Dr. Bello went into the categories of causes and manners of death for the jury. She admitted that his death was undetermined and could've occurred by accident or homicide.
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S1, EP163 "The Neuropathologist Explains"Prosecutors accusing Karen read of murdering her boyfriend called in a neuropathologist to testify. Dr. Renee Stonebridge broke down her findings from her examination of the brain of John O'Keefe. The medical evidence that proved John O'Keefe sustained blunt force trauma to the head was critical to both sides. The state contended he hit his head on the ground, possibly on a curb, after being hit by Karen Read's SUV.
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S1, EP162 "Results Of Cellebrite Data"Karen Read's defense stirred things up with the state trooper on the witness stand. Trooper Nicholas Guarino testified about the cell phone data that was collected which he believed implicated the defendant in the death of John O'Keefe. Guarino also was able to pinpoint the time and the locations of the defendant and the victim, John O'Keefe, before he was found in the snow. Guarino's team did acknowledge that his team did not find any deleted phone calls on the defendant's phone.
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S1, EP161 "Challenging The Digital Evidence"Jurors learned more about John O'Keefe's movements in his last hours alive. Cross-examination began on Trooper Nicholas Guarino who specialized in digital forensics. Karen Read's defense zeroed in on the work that Guarino did in this case. During his testimony, he made clear to the jury that he did not handwrite any notes as part of his report.
