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For the second time in a week, Judge Beverly Cannone denied Karen Read's attorneys' request for a mistrial after they accused the prosecution of misconduct.
He said the defense sent ARCCA a check on July 25. Still, Brennan noted the invoice included expenses from early May — weeks before Wolfe testified before a jury that the defense hadn’t paid ...
June 24, 2024: ARCCA experts testify at Read's first trial. In his direct examination of them, Defense Attorney Alan Jackson points out that he and the experts had never met, and that they ...
On the stand Wednesday: Andrew Rentschler, ARCCA Inc. 4:20 p.m. update: Closing arguments slated for Friday. After nearly eight weeks of testimony, closing arguments in Karen Read’s murder ...
Judge Beverly Cannone set a Friday deadline for Karen Read's defense team to reveal details about crash reconstruction firm ARCCA, a key element in her upcoming murder retrial.
It’s a high-stakes issue for Read’s case — the ARCCA experts concluded, in a report commissioned for the federal investigation into how the Read case was handled, that it was unlikely John O ...
Testimony from ARCCA crash experts has been a contentious issue in the Read trial. They were hired as part of a now-closed federal investigation into the handling of the case.
ARCCA used a Lexus SUV that is the same year, make and model of the one Read was driving on the night of O’Keefe’s arm and performed “full-scale vehicle testing.” ...
Testimony from ARCCA witnesses is important to the defense because Read, 45, of Mansfield, is accused of hitting her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her SUV outside a Canton home on Jan. 29, 2022 ...
One ARCCA employee specifically cited by Brennan was Daniel Wolfe, an accident reconstruction expert with a background in electrical engineering and physics, who testified during Read's first trial.
Judge Beverly Cannone will allow experts from ARCCA, a crash reconstruction firm, to testify at Karen Read's second trial in the murder of John O'Keefe.
Karen Read watches attorney Robert Alessi make a point during a hearing in Norfolk Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.