Judge in Karen Read case to make bombshell decision on phone call that can prove she 'had done something terrible' on night boyfriend died

A justice is acceptable to determine whether to merchandise compartment telephone records that beryllium Karen Read 'had done thing terrible' connected helium nighttime her fellow died. 

Prosecutor Hank Brennan petitioned successful tribunal Tuesday for the merchandise records of the calls betwixt Read and her parents successful the hours aft she allegedly struck Boston constabulary serviceman John O'Keefe with her SUV connected January 29, 2022. 

Brennan said she called her parents Janet and William Read respective times successful the aboriginal hours of the morning, astir the clip she claimed she near O'Keefe astatine a enactment and drove home. 

He was recovered hours aboriginal astatine 6am dormant successful the snow, and guests said helium ne'er went inside. 

'The inference that a 40-something-year-old pistillate is calling her parents astatine 1:30 successful the greeting aft this tumultuous event, the inference is beardown grounds that Ms. Read knew she had done thing terrible,' Brennan said. 

'She knew she had struck John O’Keefe, and she knew she had near him behind.' 

Prosecutors with the Norfolk territory attorney’s bureau claimed Read's telephone records volition amusement she called her parent 3 times, astatine 1:14am, 4:38am, and 4:42am, and her begetter astatine 6:32am - nary of which were answered. 

In her defence astatine her archetypal trial, Read claimed to person been driving astatine astir astatine the clip with 2 friends searching for O'Keefe aft helium ne'er returned home. 

She argued that she was the unfortunate of a wide-ranging conspiracy including the Boston Police Department to framework her. The archetypal proceedings ended successful a hung jury, and she is acceptable to spell backmost connected proceedings successful January 2025. 

Although Read is acceptable to spell backmost connected proceedings successful January, Tuesday's proceeding saw some prosecutors and her defence petition to person the proceedings pushed backmost to April. 

Read's lawyer Elizabeth Little countered the prosecution's question for her telephone records, branding it a 'fishing expedition' and an penetration of her parents' privacy, reports the Boston Globe. 

She argued that prosecutors person not shown impervious that the telephone records incorporate grounds related to the case.  

'The Commonwealth is asking this tribunal to authorisation this gross penetration of her father’s privateness truthful the Commonwealth tin sift done Mr. Read’s physics information for accusation that is already successful the possession of the Commonwealth,' she said. 

The justice did not regularisation connected the question astatine Tuesday's hearing. 

Brennan besides requested the merchandise of journalists' notes and recordings of interviews Read gave to a Boston Magazine newsman past twelvemonth for a story. 

Prosecutors said they are successful possession of 2 recordings of the interview, but they see astir 150 redactions, and they are seeking unredacted versions. 

It is claimed that these redactions see comments from Read that contradict statements she made to different outlets, and said determination are different moments wherever Read makes a connection earlier a redaction past resumes with a antithetic story. 

In 1 illustration reported by the Globe, Read allegedly made an 'admission of drinking a vodka tonic each 40 minutes' astatine a barroom with O'Keefe connected the nighttime of his death. 

When the audio resumed, tribunal records claimed she offered a 'non-sequitur claiming to devour sips of water' astatine a 2nd bar, portion she antecedently told 20/20: 'I had had astir apt astir 4 [drinks], and not 4 that I completed either. I didn’t portion possibly much than a fewer sips at' the 2nd bar. 

At Tuesday's hearing, Brennan said: 'Clearly thing happened during that redaction that changed the admittance to drinking alcohol, which is portion of this case, to thing of water.' 

The justice besides did not marque a ruling connected a question implicit the recordings connected Tuesday. Read is adjacent scheduled successful tribunal connected December 12.  

Read has maintained her innocence successful the lawsuit and says she intends to combat to wide her sanction erstwhile she faces a 2nd execution proceedings successful January.

Although her assemblage was deadlocked, the household of John O'Keefe launched a wrongful decease suit against her.

Prosecutors allege that Read deed O'Keefe with her car pursuing a drunken statement arsenic she dropped him disconnected astatine the location for an aft party, and assertion to person recovered pieces of her car's process airy astir his body.

She had spent the evening drinking with O'Keefe and a radical of friends astatine the Waterfall Bar and Grill successful Canton, astir 14 miles southbound of Boston, and the radical were invited to the location of his person Brian Albert, who was a retired Boston constabulary officer.

Read, who prosecutors accidental drank respective alcoholic drinks beforehand, decided to driblet O'Keefe astatine the afterparty earlier she went to his location - that helium shared with his orphaned niece and nephew - to slumber astatine astir 1am.

Court documents revealed that the mates had been bitterly arguing for weeks beforehand, and connected the nighttime O'Keefe died, Read near him a voicemail calling him a 'f****** loser', and 'John, I f****** hatred you.'

The mates had been dating for 2 years astatine the clip of O'Keefe's death. He had been serving connected the Boston Police Department for 16 years.

As the enactment went connected wrong Albert's home, Read said she woke up astir 4am to find that helium was not astatine home, and told O'Keefe's niece that she was 'distraught.'

Attendees astatine the party, including immoderate instrumentality enforcement, claimed O'Keefe ne'er arrived astatine the enactment oregon entered the home.

Read past searched for O'Keefe with a friend, and prosecutors allege that during the hunt she told her: 'What if he's dead? What if a plow deed him?… I don't retrieve thing from past night, we drank truthful overmuch I don't retrieve anything.'

At 6am, Read recovered O'Keefe laying successful the snowfall extracurricular Albert's home, and a archetypal responder connected the country reportedly claimed Read repeatedly cried out, 'I deed him, I deed him', reports CBS News.

O'Keefe was rushed to hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead. An autopsy found that the origin of decease was blunt interaction injuries and hypothermia. 

Read's defence countered that she is the unfortunate of an extended conspiracy to framework her, and claimed the constabulary serviceman whitethorn person really been attacked by different officers and attendees astatine the enactment wherever helium was recovered dead.

Throughout her trial, Read's claims that she was framed besides drew a legion of fans, who wore pinkish to amusement their enactment and were often staked retired extracurricular the courthouse.

The justice successful her lawsuit adjacent filed a ruling astatine the commencement of the proceedings banning supporters from coming wrong 200 feet of the courthouse.

Read's courthouse behaviour besides sparked backlash arsenic she was branded 'America's happiest execution defendant', arsenic she appeared to soak up the attraction portion winking astatine the cameras and snacking successful court.