Norfolk DA plans to make use of Karen Learn’s statements from TV interviews in opposition to her in trial

Norfolk DA prosecutors plan to make use of Karen Learn’s statements from a number of TV interviews in opposition to her within the upcoming retrial.

The DA’s Workplace on Monday stated it intends to “introduce extrajudicial statements of the defendant” when the Learn retrial lastly will get going.

Prosecutors allege that Learn struck John O’Keefe, a Boston Police officer who she had dated for roughly two years, together with her Lexus SUV after an evening of heavy consuming and left him to freeze and die on a Canton entrance yard within the early morning.

Learn’s protection attorneys have countered all through the case that Learn has been framed by corrupt native and state cops and prosecutors working with the proprietor of the house on whose garden O’Keefe was discovered. Protection attorneys say O’Keefe made it into the house that evening and was crushed to demise inside.

“The defendant has made numerous statements to witnesses, first responders, medical providers, family members, and journalists, as well as recorded statements on John O’Keefe’s cellphone,” the prosecutors wrote in Monday’s movement. “These statements vary from the defendant’s quick impressions and frame of mind within the minutes and hours surrounding John O’Keefe’s demise to crafted narrations, generally within the presence of counsel that recount for the defendant’s model or impressions of occasions months and years after the homicide.

“All of these statements are ones of the opposing party, made by the defendant and therefore admissible,” they added. “The Commonwealth thereby provides this Honorable Court notice of its intention to introduce statements of the defendant.”