Lawyers for Karen Read are trying to keep parts of the dismissal under the seal

Lawyers for Karen read I ask Judge president to let them file portions of their motion to reject the accusations under the seal.

In the judicial documents filed on Friday at the Norfolk Superior Court, Read’s lawyers mentioned multiple reasons for their request to draft extracts in their motion, which supports “Extraordinary government management” in question.

Read’s lawyers said that some of the materials they are trying to write are subjected to a federal protection order, while others are protected by previous tax orders issued by Judge Beverly Canne.

“A good cause exists” to impose the requested material, lawyer Elizabeth Little read in a statement. “That is, all references to transcripts, references and information that are subject to a federal protection order.”

Boston federal prosecutors convened a large separate jury to investigate the management of the state order forces of the large case. The Department of Justice did not comment publicly in this regard and no one was accused of federal case offenses.

The most recent round of preventive movements came before a highly expected hearing scheduled for Tuesday before Canne, who advised last week Read lawyers To be prepared to address CHARGES that Failed to disclose a financial agreement with expert witnesses During the first process.

Reading44 years old, he pleaded not guilty of the accusations of murder of the second degree, of murder, while operating under influence and left the place of an accident that led to death.

Prosecutors claim to have supported SUV Lexus in a drunk anger in her lover, Boston police officer John O’keefeAt the beginning of January 29, 2022, after throwing it outside a canton house after a bar at a bar.

Her lawyers Says it has been framed And that O’keefe He entered the house, owned at that time by a Boston police colleague and was fatally beaten before his body was planted on the front lawn.

Read The first process ended in a jury hung in Julyand her re -examination is scheduled to start April 1st. It remains free on bail.

Also on Friday, the defense submitted a motion to the prosecutors from calling the meteorologist Robert Gilman to testify about the hardness of the land in the area where O’Keefe’s body was found.

The defense focused on autopsy photographs that show severe swelling on O’Keefe’s face, which they say was caused by an attack.

In a report presented to prosecutors this month Gilman He wrote that the land in which O’Keefe was discovered would have been “hard as a rock” at that time because of the weather conditions. Read’s lawyers said he was missing the expertise to formulate such an opinion.

The use of Gilman of the quotes around the expression, the lawyers of Read wrote, it is “a tacit admission that this analysis is not scientific in itself and itself. “Hard as a rock” is not a scientific analysis, but it is a common euphemism and a common word. The use of secular language in which there should be a scientific evaluation is that Mr. Gilman has not been based on a scientific methodology to achieve his speculative opinion. ”

Read he too faces the wrong death process Removed from O’Keefe’s family at Plymouth Superior Court.

Materials from the stories of the anterior globe were used in this report.

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