Paula Barrows
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first heard Nov 2024
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And for those more aligned with the stance of the prosecution, there's more.
The glass seen on the security footage found by John's body outside the Alberts' home certainly made it undeniable that whether Karen or somebody else killed him, John did, in fact, make it to the outside of the Alberts' home the night of January 28, 2022.
And in light of the latest evidence presented by the prosecution, Judge Beverly Canone delayed the start of Karen Reid's trial from March 12th to April 16th, 2024. While the trial may not have begun March 12, both the prosecution and defense found themselves back in a pretrial hearing at Norfolk County Superior Court that day.
This time, Karen's attorneys brought forward a motion in response to the federal prosecutor's February evidentiary report. They now wanted the case dismissed altogether.
Karen sat between her attorneys in a black suit with white pinstripes as Alan Jackson approached Judge Canone, arguing in favor of dismissal, citing that the integrity of the case had been tainted by its lead investigator, Trooper Michael Proctor.
Trooper Proctor wasn't the only person implicated in Alan Jackson's argument either. Upon review of the 3,000 pages of evidence, Karen's defense team finally found a new crutch to lean on. The prosecution's own experts concluded they found nothing in their investigation that led them to believe Karen killed John with her SUV.
These particular findings were never shared with the grand jury.
Prosecutor Adam Lally responded to Jackson's argument. Claiming the defense's strategy zeroed in on one detail while overlooking what his team believed was a mountain of evidence substantial enough to not only bring Karen Reed to trial, but to find her guilty of murder.
Dismissal of the case wasn't the only argument Lally and Jackson went head-to-head on during this pretrial hearing. Next, the defense entered yet another motion.
The unethical conduct that David Iannetti claims occurred goes back to August 2023, when District Attorney Morrissey released a video in the wake of cover-up theories seeping into headlines and the subsequent witness harassment spurred by Turtle Boy's Free Karen Reid movement.
In the March 12th hearing, David Yannetti spoke on his interpretation of D.A. Morrissey's video statement.
Yannetti and Jackson were of the opinion that the public release of the nearly six-minute video violated their client's right to a fair trial, and that D.A. Morrissey's office failed to disclose information regarding the additional federal probe into the communication between Turtle Boy and Karen Reed. For them, these actions were oversights worthy of disqualification.
Making matters more complicated, Jackson and Iannetti also claimed the U.S. Attorney's Office, in the wake of these perceived missteps, launched a federal investigation into the district attorney's office that proffered further grounds to remove him from the case.
But the validity of said investigation remains a bit of a mystery. A spokesperson from the U.S. Attorney's Office issued a statement in response to Jackson and Iannetti's claims, reading, At no time has the U.S. Attorney's Office named any person or entity as a target of an investigation to anyone. the Norfolk District Attorney's Office doubled down, issuing a statement of their own.
They claimed that neither D.A. Morrissey nor anyone else in their office had ever been a target of a federal investigation and that Yannetti and his team misrepresented that detail completely. When given the opportunity to rebuttal, Prosecutor Lally presented an argument that skirted any mention of D.A.
Morrissey, but argued that Iannetti and his team were kept well aware of the probe into the relationship between Turtle Boy and Karen.
Tensions were clearly mounting between the defense and prosecution. It appeared that the more information revealed, the less clear this case was becoming. Unlike most investigations, more evidence seemed to only make everything even more complicated.
With these new arguments entered, the hearing to dismiss the case and throw D.A. Morrissey out of it adjourned without a firm decision by Judge Cannone on whether or not to dismiss Karen's case completely or disqualify District Attorney Morrissey. As the legitimacy of the investigation into D.A.
Morrissey became subject of debate, just one day after the motions to dismiss were entered, another investigation into a key player was confirmed. On March 13th, the Massachusetts State Police confirmed that Trooper Michael Proctor, lead investigator in the death of John O'Keefe, had become subject of an internal investigation for a potential violation of the department's policies.
While the language of their statement was vague with regard to what prompted the investigation, onlookers and online sleuths felt strongly it just had to be in connection to Proctor's alleged missteps at the scene. The announcement of the investigation into Trooper Proctor emboldened the defense's theory that he had hid his personal ties to people involved in the case.
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