Karen Learn lawyer Alan Jackson mentioned he and his consumer are “considering all options” in relation to submitting a civil go well with over her prosecution for homicide, of which she was acquitted earlier this yr.
“I’ll say this — I’m back here for a reason, it’s not just a pleasure tour. We’ve met with the legal team back here dealing with the civil issue. There’s obviously a lot to unpack where that’s concerned,” Jackson mentioned on the Howie Carr Present Thursday afternoon.
“So, had and will continue to have significant meetings about that, what Karen’s next options — what her options are in general, but what her next moves might be. And we’re considering all options,” he continued.
Jackson declined to enter specifics about what the civil motion would entail, however assured that “Nothing’s off the table and no one’s off the table.”
Jackson mentioned that to pay for her authorized combat, Learn misplaced her profession, her automotive — which has nonetheless not been returned to her, he famous — her home, and her personal freedom for 4 years because the court docket proceedings performed out.
“How much is that worth?” Jackson mentioned. “I don’t think there’s any amount of money — there’s not an amount of money I can think of — that would reasonably compensate her.”
“I can guarantee you, that civil case will be righteously defended — righteously defended — and that means getting every single scrap of information that we’re entitled to and that we did not get during the criminal case.”
In her personal phrases
Learn, who appeared briefly throughout this system, mentioned that her post-trial life is “not quite what I expected.”
“It’s a little like a dimmer where the lights are coming on a little brighter each week,” Learn mentioned. “There’s moments I have every day, these little epiphanies of, ‘Wow, this is the first time I’ve done, fill in the blank, in the last four years that I was living with this nightmare.’”
She additionally responded to Wednesday’s information that Massachusetts native and actress Elizabeth Banks — recognized for roles together with the “Hunger Games” sequence — is about to play Learn in an upcoming Amazon Prime sequence.
She mentioned she discovered about it together with everybody else and had neither been contacted in regards to the undertaking nor given her blessing. She mentioned her representatives in Los Angeles, which means Jackson, who relies there, “are not hard to find.”
Learn mentioned she’s wanting ahead to telling her personal story in a e-book of her personal.
On the finish of this system, she had some alternative phrases for the Massachusetts State Police, whose troopers investigated her, and for Norfolk County District Lawyer Michael Morrissey, whose workplace prosecuted her.
“You lost,” she mentioned. “You lost big time. And you know what you did, what you’ve done.”
The homicide case
Jackson was a distinguished member of Learn’s authorized protection workforce in each of her trials for the homicide of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.
The primary trial in the summertime of 2024 ended with a hung jury and Choose Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial.
However the protection mentioned post-trial disclosures by jurors indicated that none needed to convict for homicide however have been as an alternative held on a lesser cost. This competition had them combat for case dismissal on double jeopardy grounds, which failed on the native, state, federal and federal appellate court docket ranges. Jackson mentioned Thursday he nonetheless believes it ought to have been granted.
Then got here trial two which started in April and led to June with Learn’s acquittal on all prices save for the least they may take into account: working a automobile drunk, for which Learn obtained a yr of probation.
Prosecutors say that the two-year relationship between Learn and O’Keefe had develop into strained with jealousy and important combating, heightened by frequent alcohol use.
Throughout the trials, prosecutors offered a case that within the early morning of Jan. 29, 2022, Learn and O’Keefe bought into an alcohol-fueled combat on their technique to an after-party at a house in Canton and that Learn backed her SUV up at nice pace into O’Keefe and left him to freeze and die on a Canton entrance yard as a snowstorm raged throughout the area.
However Los Angeles-based Jackson and the remainder of her authorized workforce, together with authentic lawyer David Yannetti, who was a part of the workforce the entire time, offered a distinct story: that Learn was framed by corrupt native police and prosecutors for O’Keefe’s dying and that the science proves O’Keefe was not killed by a automobile strike.
The O’Keefe household has filed a civil go well with of their very own towards Learn and the 2 bars in downtown Canton the place the couple had been ingesting earlier than his dying.
Jackson mentioned that the O’Keefes are “going to have a very, very, very, significant uphill battle. Very obviously, the jury has spoken. It wasn’t like there wasn’t an enormous amount of scrutiny that was put through all the evidence against her. Two times, not once, the jury determined there was no collision.”
So, he mentioned, he’s wanting forward previous the O’Keefe go well with to Learn’s personal civil go well with.
“We’re not finished with the court system and the court system is going to allow me another opportunity and another platform, and allow Karen another platform, to get the truth out,” he mentioned. “And we damn well intend to do it.”
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Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. (BDNews.com picture)
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