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Key hearing in Karen Read murder trial being held Tuesday
The Karen Read murder trial is scheduled to begin next month, but an important hearing will be held in the case on Tuesday.
Read — who is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend in Canton, Massachusetts, back in 2022 — last appeared in court on Feb. 26 ,when Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone set a new trial date of April 16 after thousands of pages of new evidence were received from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts.
The Boston Globe reports that Read’s attorneys will seek to have the criminal charges dismissed Tuesday, while procecutors will push for her trial to proceed as scheduled next month.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Read would be in court for Tuesday’s hearing.
Read’s attorneys previously said they would likely need more time to comb through all 3,074 pages of evidence they received from federal prosecutors, and with a separate legal process to go through in the federal court system.
“An April 16 jury trial is not realistic,” attorney Alan Jackson said.
Cannone said she understood his position, but advised him to be ready for trial regardless.
While Jackson characterized the new evidence his team had time to review as being exculpatory for Read, and entirely new, prosecutor Laura McLaughlin disputed that characterization, saying that at least 90% of the evidence is consistent with prior testimony in the case.
The week prior, prosecutors said they have DNA evidence that links Read to John O’Keefe’s death.
Documents indicate that a piece of O’Keefe’s hair and pieces of the glass from the drink he was carrying were found stuck under Read’s SUV. The documents also paint a picture of relationship turmoil. They say Read was angry at O’Keefe for allegedly cheating on her.
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Safety concerns at Boston school after mom says girl, 13, broke rib in attack by classmate
Fears of violence are escalating at a Boston school after a recent attack on a 13-year-old student was posted on social media — and it’s not the only fight that’s been shared online.
The mother of the injured Condon School student says her daughter, who is in eighth grade, has injuries to her hands, parts of her hair were ripped out and she has a fractured rib from the incident that happened last week after school hours about a block away from the South Boston school.
According to a police report, the girl was walking when she was approached by another Condon student. The other student called the victim a snitch and a liar, then punched her, grabbed her by the hair, threw her to the ground and dragged her.
The teen’s mom says good Samaritans broke up the assault and walked the young girl back to her school. She says her daughter had reported the attacker to a school staff member just days earlier for bullying another student.
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper told NBC10 Boston in a statement, “The safety and well-being of our young people is our highest priority and violence of any kind is unacceptable…We are working directly with the student involved and their family to provide support.”
Skipper says the situation is being handled per BPS policy.
The victim’s mom says she can’t believe people recorded the incident instead of helping her child.
“It makes me sick,” she said.
NBC10 Boston has also learned about an Instagram page dedicated to fights at Condon. The district says teachers learned about the page on Friday and they reached out to Instagram, which took the page down quickly.
The girl’s mom says she has filed an emergency transfer to another school, with only three months left in the school year.
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