Comply with stay updates as testimony continues
Testimony is constant within the homicide trial of Karen Learn, who’s accused of backing her SUV into her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, and leaving him for lifeless.
The trial was off Thursday after days of testimony about canine chew evaluation and Chloe, the canine, was on the heart of the proceedings.
Comply with stay updates and watch it stay.
Subsequent witness is crash knowledgeable — 9:11 a.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Workers
The protection known as crash evaluation knowledgeable Daniel Wolfe to the stand.
Wolfe had testified on the first trial that O’Keefe’s accidents weren’t according to a car strike.
Wolfe started his testimony Friday by operating by means of his skilled background beneath direct examination from Learn lawyer Alan Jackson.
Testimony resumes Friday — 8:33 a.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Workers
Testimony resumes Friday in Karen Learn’s sensational homicide retrial in Norfolk Superior Court docket.
Learn, 45, has pleaded not responsible to second diploma homicide and two different counts for allegedly backing her SUV in a drunken rage into her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, early on Jan. 29, 2022, after dropping him off outdoors a Fairview Street house in Canton following an evening of bar hopping.
Her attorneys say she was framed and that O’Keefe entered the house, owned on the time by a fellow Boston cop, the place he was fatally overwhelmed and presumably mauled by a German Shepherd earlier than his physique was planted on the garden.
Learn’s first trial led to a hung jury in July and he or she stays free on bail.
The protection is presently presenting its case, and amongst their witnesses who’ve but to testify are analysts from the Philadelphia crash reconstruction agency ARCCA, who stated within the first trial that O’Keefe’s accidents weren’t according to a car strike. A authorities knowledgeable testified on the retrial that his arm wounds had been according to getting momentarily caught in a taillight throughout a sideswipe.