— The fate of Karen Read was handed Tuesday to jurors who must decide whether the Massachusetts woman ended a rocky romance by angrily striking her boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him mortally injured in the snow, or the victim of police corruption, framed to cover up a fight at the home of a fellow Boston officer.
Defense lawyer Alan Jackson described a cancer of lies that “spreads into a conspiracy,” and told jurors they’re the “only thing standing between Karen Read and the tyranny of injustice.” But Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally told jurors “there is no conspiracy.” He began his closing argument with the words four witnesses reported hearing Read say after O’Keefe was discovered on the snowy lawn: “The defendant repeatedly said ’I hit him. I hit him. Oh my God. I hit him.
The defense said witnesses who claimed to have heard her say she hit O’Keefe had changed their story or couldn’t have heard the comments due to the chaotic scene. Jackson said investigators focused on Read because she was a “convenient outsider” who saved them from having to consider other suspects, including Albert and other law enforcement officers at the house party. In particular, they highlighted connections between Albert and the state trooper who led the investigation.
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