Defense Motion files for rejecting crime indictment

Jackson previous correspondence with two expert witnesses From the accident reconstruction company, Arcca was the subject of a long and tense hearings in the court on Tuesday.

The two witnesses confessed to Read’s first trial That the wounds who suffered Read’s lover were not in accordance with the fact that they were hit by a vehicle, as the prosecutors claimed.

But Tuesday, Judge Beverly J. Cannone Asked Read’s lawyers about disclosures that Jackson discussed A “engagement letter” and restraint with one of the witnesses Arcca by E -mail about a month before the first trial and that the experts invoiced the defense for about $ 23,000 after ending.

It is not unusual for prosecutors and defense lawyers to pay their expert witnesses, but the involvement of the ARCCA team was extremely unorthodox.

The federal government initially hired as part of a separated investigation from the big jury regarding the management of the state law enforcement in case of large case.

The juries from Read’s first trial was said only that an independent third party kept the experts, apparently borrowing and the opinions, which were favorable to Read’s defense.

One of the experts, Daniel Wolfe, told Jackson on the stand that the defense had not paid anything to the Arcca team.

On Tuesday, read lawyer Robert Alessi told Cannone that it was a real statement, because the defense stopped communicating with Arcca experts in March without a retainer, after the experts said that federal prosecutors wanted to interrupt communication with her legal team.

The first process ended with a jury hanging in early July. The draft law sent to defense at the end of July arrived “from blue”, said Alessi. Jackson did not pay the bill Until he called a federal prosecutor to ask about it.

Cannone has scheduled three more days of hearings next week, when he considers the next steps.

Reading45 years old, he pleaded not guilty of the accusations of murder of the second degree, of murder as he worked 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 say that it has been framed And that O’Keefe entered the house, owned at that time by a Boston police colleague, where he was fatally beaten before his body was planted on the front lawn.

Read Revial will start to start April 1st. It remains free on bail.

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

Travis Andersen can be accessed to [email protected].