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Pretty Lies And Alibis

RECAP: Opening Statements In The Retrial Of Karen Read

Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

True Crime, News, Daily News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Recapping openings in the retrial of Karen Read who is accused of running over her boyfriend John O'Keefe 



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0:00.0

What you know, alibiers, welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis.

0:04.8

I'm Gigi. It's Tuesday, April 22nd, day one in the retrial of Care and Read.

0:11.0

We had openings and the first few witnesses.

0:13.6

We're going to break it down for you.

0:15.7

Before we get started, let me just explain to the new listeners how I cover trials.

0:19.7

I do a recap every day of the day's

0:22.7

best testimony in an hour or less without opinion and without commentary. So that way, you can

0:28.7

stay current with the trial if you can't watch or don't want to watch. If you do, I'm

0:33.7

live streaming every day on my channel, so come join us. Today's episode will be two separate ones, and the reason is, when I cover trials,

0:41.7

I usually try to put opening statements in an episode by themselves,

0:46.3

because if I try to upload a video that's an hour or more to YouTube, it'll stop.

0:52.4

I have to start over.

0:53.6

It's very frustrating. So the first episode

0:56.5

here will just cover openings by both sides. The next episode that will be out later this

1:02.5

evening will wrap up the testimony of the first few witnesses today. Before openings started,

1:09.4

the judge ruled that the defense team has failed to comply with

1:12.9

discovery obligations from ARCA, and so the judge banned her lawyers from mentioning ARCA during

1:19.6

the opening statements as a result. Also, the Commonwealth cannot have an independent reader,

1:25.7

read the text messages between John and Karen. So up for the state

1:30.1

is Brennan. At 604 a.m. January 29th, 2022, the alarm bell sounded for a cardiac arrest. He didn't

1:39.2

know who it was or where it was. He took his bag and went to the ambulance. Another paramedic jumped in and they

1:46.0

went to the address. He couldn't see anything as he drove, couldn't hear anything, but could

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