The Karen Learn homicide trial will reconvene this morning at 9 a.m. in Norfolk Superior Court docket in Dedham for a twenty fifth day of testimony.
For the primary time shortly within the prolonged trial, the day will begin with a contemporary witness. Attorneys didn’t telegraph who that witness might be, however there are technical specialists nonetheless listed on the prosecution’s witness listing. Decide Beverly Cannone, who had usually reminded attorneys to not waste time with inefficient group of proof to be admitted and for repetitive testimony all through the trial, on Thursday mentioned the case was “on schedule.”
Thursday started with the continued testimony of Massachusetts State Police Lt. Brian Tully, who oversees the detectives stationed on the Norfolk District Legal professional’s workplace who had jurisdiction over investigating the murder of John O’Keefe and every other murder within the county. Tully’s testimony went over mobile phone tower knowledge and surveillance footage, in addition to early selections his detectives made within the case. The testimony supplied a little bit of a return to normalcy following the two-day testimony of Trooper Michael Proctor, the who served because the lead investigator.
Proctor admitted to a collection of “inappropriate” personal texts whereas he was conducting his investigation wherein he referred to as Learn, amongst different issues, a “whack job” and that “hopefully she kills herself.”
Thursday additionally noticed testimony from three forensic scientists who carried out forensic evaluation on proof discovered on the scene, in addition to a Needham PD officer tasked with getting DNA samples from the lead investigators within the case for these forensic scientists to make use of as profiles. Protection attorneys had no cross-examination of any of those witnesses.
Prosecutors say Learn, 44, of Mansfield, drunk and offended, struck O’Keefe together with her Lexus SUV outdoors 34 Fairview Street in Canton within the early morning hours of Jan. 29, 2022, leaving him useless or dying within the entrance yard of a fellow Boston Police officer who had invited the pair, in addition to others ingesting at Waterfall Bar and Grill in central Canton that evening, again for an afterparty.
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