Hank Brennan
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Emotional testimony from a killer. A murder defendant's unusual defense. And travel scam safety tips.
There is no longer any federal investigation into the investigation of John O'Keefe's death or any related matters.
Dateline NBC
Emotional testimony from a killer. A murder defendant's unusual defense. And travel scam safety tips.
The ongoing, deliberate, purposeful poisoning of the potential jury pool is not only wrong and unfair, it needs to be stopped.
Dateline NBC
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
Good morning, Your Honor. Hank, run in for the Commonwealth.
Dateline NBC
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
At 6.04 a.m. on January 29, 2022, the alarm bell sounded in the Canton Fire Department. Firefighter, paramedic Timothy Nuttall knew what that meant. His heart skipped a beat. He raced to his equipment and he picked up his bag, which was meticulous.
Dateline NBC
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
And he looked up. I misread and he said, what happened? And you'll hear her words to a firefighter, not all. She said, I hit him. I hit him. I hit him.
Dateline NBC
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
I simply ask you to follow the evidence, follow the science, follow the data. Ignore speculation, surmise conjecture. It will lead you to the truth.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Emotional testimony from a killer. A murder defendant's unusual defense. And travel scam safety tips.
There is no longer any federal investigation into the investigation of John O'Keefe's death or any related matters.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Emotional testimony from a killer. A murder defendant's unusual defense. And travel scam safety tips.
The ongoing, deliberate, purposeful poisoning of the potential jury pool is not only wrong and unfair, it needs to be stopped.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
Hank Brennan was hired by the Norfolk County DA's office as a special prosecutor to try the case. He is well-known in Massachusetts because he represented notorious Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger during his 2013 trial. You probably remember that, Andrea.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
He was very calm, almost soft-spoken, but he's also crisp. He goes through things very matter-of-factly, very straightforwardly.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
He approached his opening remarks as if he were telling a story to the jury. You know, the time, the morning, the alarm bell. We're living in a certain POV, a perspective of a firefighter, paramedic Timothy Nuttall, one of the first responders who came to the scene.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
He is important because he heard Karen say, I hit him, meaning I hit John. And the prosecution says, Karen confessed at the scene by saying these words, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
Karen contends that she phrased it as a question, not as a statement. Could I have hit him? So by playing it, the prosecution apparently wants to show jurors that Karen in the moment was trying to work out how she could possibly have injured John with her car.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
What I think, Andrea, is that he focused on data. He focused on the technical aspects and the technology of the case. And he said all of those would show that Karen Reid killed John O'Keefe.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
He focused on location data, on health data, and interesting here, the temperature of the cell phone battery. You know, what he did was he picked plot points where John and Karen were and what the temperature was, you know, at certain points in their storyline that night. He also said there'd be evidence from the black box, he called it, from Karen's Lexus, her SUV.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
And some of that evidence will be new because the prosecution retested her car after the first trial.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
Well, Alan Jackson has such a different style in court than Hank Brennan. And you probably remember that, Andrea. I mean, Alan Jackson's style, right? He's more forceful and really understands the spectacle of a criminal trial.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
Yes, he did. So right off the bat, Jackson focused on Michael Proctor, who was the lead investigator in the case, who sent demeaning and derogatory text messages about Karen during the investigation.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
That's right. I mean, they say that the people who were at the house during this party at Boston Police Officer Brian Albert's home. that they all work together to create a story and to conspire to make her what Alan Jackson calls the outsider as the killer.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
Well, so that constraint, Andrew, it's interesting, is really just for opening statements. So Jackson, in his opening, obviously didn't accuse anyone specifically, but he did draw the jury's attention to the behavior of some of the people who were at the party that night. You know, Brian Albert was the homeowner.
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Karen Read's retrial kicks off. A verdict in the "Mommy Doomsday" case. And Scott Peterson's blockbuster filing.
We'll get into all of it, too, Andrea.