The Karen Learn homicide retrial is taking at this time off.
The announcement got here within the type of a considerably cryptic message from the state’s courts.
“Please be advised that the trial in Commonwealth v. Karen Read is not taking place today due to unavoidable circumstances,” Massachusetts state courts spokeswoman Jennifer Donahue wrote in an electronic mail.
There was no additional rationalization
Learn, 45, of Mansfield, faces fees together with second-degree homicide within the dying of John O’Keefe, a Boston Police officer who she had dated for roughly two years on the time of his dying on Jan. 29, 2022. She was tried final yr however that led to mistrial. There have been 14 days of testimony thus far in her retrial.
Prosecutors say that Learn struck O’Keefe along with her Lexus SUV someday after midnight and left him to freeze and die on the entrance garden of 34 Fairview Street in Canton.
The earlier three days of trial featured testimony from Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik, one of many principal investigators of the case. His testimony included particulars on his investigation together with his investigative accomplice, Trooper Michael Proctor, who has since been fired from the MSP due primarily to his habits on this case.
Proctor’s testimony was surprising within the first trial final yr, through which he learn texts he despatched that included calling Learn, the topic of his investigation, issues like a “babe” and a “whack job” in addition to cruder issues. Bukhenik’s time on the stand was so in depth that it’s not clear if Proctor might be returning this yr.
