Protection legal professional Alan Jackson says the “band … is getting back together” as he and colleague Elizabeth Little will probably be defending Karen Learn in a civil swimsuit by the household of John O’Keefe.
Jackson additionally says he believes new data will probably be offered in the course of the civil trial because the protection will probably be dealing with a brand new choose fairly than Beverly Cannone, who oversaw each of Learn’s homicide trials and the legal professional has accused of bias.
“I’ll be coming back to Boston,” Jackson advised WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show” Tuesday morning. “You haven’t seen the last of me yet.”
“The band is not just staying together, getting back together,” he added. “We’re intending on writing a few new chapters.”
The legal trial concluded in June with a decisive win for the protection.
Jurors cleared Learn, 45, of killing O’Keefe, her Boston Police officer boyfriend of about two years on the time he died within the early morning hours of Jan. 29, 2022. The jury convicted her of simply working a motorized vehicle beneath the affect.
The O’Keefe household can also be focusing on the Waterfall Bar & Grille and C.F. McCarthy’s, the 2 Canton bars that the couple visited hours earlier than he died, within the wrongful loss of life lawsuit.
Learn’s civil protection workforce has been energetic within the aftermath of the legal trial, just lately demanding a variety of paperwork involving her legal case from state prosecutors to the Massachusetts State Police to federal companies.
Jackson took a swipe at Cannone throughout his WEEI interview, saying she refused to place her “biases aside” in Learn’s legal case. He added that the choose blocked the protection from introducing proof gathered from inside 34 Fairview Street in Canton.
That’s the property the place prosecutors alleged Learn plowed into O’Keefe together with her SUV following a drunken argument, leaving him to die in a snowstorm. The protection countered that O’Keefe was crushed to loss of life inside the house earlier than his physique was dragged to the entrance yard.
“The pain point that the plaintiffs are going to have in their civil suit is, this is a very different lawsuit,” Jackson stated. “It’s not a criminal lawsuit, and it’s not being governed by Judge Beverly Cannone, who kept out so much of that information.”
“All of it was relevant,” he added. “This new lawsuit is probably a very good platform … for a lot of that information to be aired out and aired out completely.”
The civil case is being heard in Plymouth County Superior Courtroom, a change from the legal proceedings in Norfolk County Superior Courtroom.
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