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Watch live: Arguments expected on ‘hos long to die in cold’ testimony as Karen Read returns to court

DEDHAM, Mass. — The Karen Read case is due back in court Friday morning as more motions are expected to be heard ahead of her second murder trial.

WATCH LIVE: Karen Read murder case back in court for motions hearing ahead of retrial.

WATCH LIVE: Arguments expected on ‘hos long to die in cold’ testimony as Karen Read returns to court ahead of 2nd trial.

Posted by Boston 25 News on Friday, January 31, 2025

Read, 44, of Mansfield, is expected to present as Judge Beverly Cannone weighs various motions in the case, including whether a digital forensics expert hired by Read’s defense team will be allowed to testify at her retrial.

During Read’s first trial, which ended with a hung jury in July 2024, Richard Green alleged that Jennifer McCabe searched “hos long to die in cold” on Google. McCabe previously testified that Read asked her to make the Google search after they found her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe dead in the snow outside of 34 Fairview Road in Canton on Jan. 29, 2022.

Green previously testified that McCabe’s Google search happened at 2:27 a.m. in the morning, hours before the prosecution said it happened.

A motion filed by prosecutors in Dedham’s Norfolk Superior Court on New Year’s Eve seeks to exclude testimony from Green.

“Exclusion is appropriate because both claims lack any evidentiary support, and the claims cannot be made in good faith. Allowing introduction of baseless claims without any scientific, forensic, or factual support would be misleading to the jury and disruptive to the interest of justice,” the motion stated.

The defense has argued that Green is indeed qualified and that he used five different tools to come to the Google search conclusion.

Cannone is slated to weigh whether Green’s testimony is relevant and reliable.

Read is accused of hitting O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV on January 29, 2022, and leaving him to die after a night of drinking.

Prosecutors say Read dropped O’Keefe off at a house party hosted by Albert and his wife just after midnight. As she made a three-point turn, prosecutors say, she struck O’Keefe before driving away. She returned hours later to find him in a snowbank.

The defense has sought to portray Read as the victim, saying O’Keefe was actually killed inside the Albert family home and then dragged outside and left for dead.

Read’s retrial is set for April 2025.

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