Karen Learn in an interview revealed the identical day jury choice hit the specified variety of jurors for her retrial in contrast her case to that of O.J. Simpson, saying that she would have “cheered” his acquittal on homicide expenses.
“I felt so strongly about the prosecution and his guilt and the fact that he spent all this money on this dream team of lawyers,” Learn stated of the Simpson homicide trial that spanned the higher a part of 1995 in an interview with Self-importance Honest revealed Thursday. “They all looked like snake oil salesmen to me.”
She stated that after going by way of an investigation by police that she and her authorized crew view as both corrupt or incompetent and the following homicide trial final yr that resulted in mistrial, her considering had modified.
“I’m not saying I believe O.J. was innocent, but I believe that it was not a completely above-board investigation. Now that I am smarter, I would’ve cheered at that acquittal,” Learn informed the journal. “You have to hold cops accountable.”
Learn, 45, is accused of putting Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, her boyfriend of about two years on the time, along with her Lexus SUV after an evening of heavy ingesting and one more argument of their allegedly deteriorating relationship. Prosecutors say she hit him with the passenger aspect rear of the automobile whereas in reverse at round 24 mph and left him to die within the entrance garden of 34 Fairview Street in Canton.
She was tried final yr on expenses of second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas working a motorized vehicle beneath the affect, and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting demise however that ended July 1 when Decide Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial following the jury’s third word in a row indicating an deadlock.
Attorneys ended Thursday, the eighth day of jury choice, with 16 jurors — eight girls and eight males — which was what they have been aiming for. The case will take Friday off after which resume on Monday in efforts to attempt to get much more jurors for the ultimate pool, in accordance with Clerk James McDermott. The jurors have an extended trial forward of them, with Cannone telling potential jurors in the beginning of every day might take so long as eight weeks.
Learn’s attorneys mounted a multi-pronged effort to have the homicide cost dismissed after they are saying jurors got here ahead to tell them that the jury was able to acquit on the costs of homicide and leaving the scene and have been solely hung up on manslaughter. Learn’s attorneys say that ought to be seen as a not responsible verdict on these two expenses and that to attempt Learn once more on all however manslaughter can be a violation of her constitutional Double Jeopardy protections.
The argument has to this point failed earlier than Cannone, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courtroom, the federal court docket in Boston and the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the First Circuit. They’ve now petitioned the U.S. Supreme Courtroom to think about the case, however a request for a keep of her trial because the Courtroom considers it was denied Wednesday.
The Self-importance Honest interview is simply the most recent in a sequence of public statements Learn has made since her first trial. Simply forward of and through that trial, she gave in depth entry to herself and her authorized crew to a documentary movie crew, and people fruits have been aired final month on each the community ID and the streaming platform MAX beneath the title “A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read.”
The documentary was watched by greater than 6 million individuals in its first week, in accordance with a press launch from the community.
Learn was additionally the topic of an episode of 20/20 known as “Karen Read: The Perfect Storm,” which aired in September 2024 and an episode of NBC’s Dateline which aired the following month.
Sam Mircovich/Pool Picture by way of AP, File
Defendant O.J. Simpson is surrounded by his protection attorneys, from left, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Peter Neufeld, Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, and Robert Blasier, seated at left, on the shut of protection arguments in his homicide trial, Thursday, Sept. 28, 1995, in Los Angeles. (Sam Mircovich/Pool Picture by way of AP, File)
