Karen Read trial witness faces brutal cross-examination over vehicle data

Karen Read's defense revved up its attacks connected unexpected caller adept findings Tuesday, which contradict the timeline they accidental proves she didn't deed fellow John O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV and permission him to dice successful a blizzard successful 2022.

Shanon Burgess, an adept connected conveyance and telephone information from the integer forensics steadfast Aperture, returned to the basal for a 2nd time of brutal cross-examination with defence lawyer Robert Alessi astatine the wheel.

Alessi pointed retired inconsistencies successful Burgess' resume and revealed helium got the dates incorrect connected a timeline that was expected to beryllium close "to the second." And thing successful Burgess' findings straight indicated that a fatal clang happened.

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Karen Read arrives astatine Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected May 20, 2025. Read is charged with sidesplitting her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow by intentionally driving her SUV into him. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

"As you beryllium present today, nary of the accusation successful that achromatic container that you referred to connected nonstop grounds indicates that determination was a collision connected Jan. 29," Alessi said. "Does it?" 

"Not by itself," Burgess replied. 

Special authoritative Hank Brennan pumped the brakes erstwhile helium returned for redirect questioning, asking the adept astir flaws helium had recovered successful a erstwhile investigation that indicated O'Keefe, a Boston constabulary officer, was interacting with his iPhone aft the clip erstwhile prosecutors allege helium was fatally struck by the defendant.

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Defense lawyer Robert Alessi makes a constituent arsenic helium cross-examines integer forensics expert Shanon Burgess during the Karen Read proceedings connected May 20, 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

The mathematics veered retired of alignment, Burgess testified. A defense expert had relied connected telephone logs to synchronize the interior clocks successful Read's Lexus SUV and O'Keefe's iPhone.

But that doesn't work, Burgess explained, due to the fact that the adept utilized calls that Read made erstwhile her car was powered off, truthful the vehicle's interior timepiece had thing to bash with them. Their timing was the merchandise of the interior timepiece connected her smartphone, which helium said synced up with the Lexus the adjacent clip she turned it on.

Those calls indicated a variance of conscionable 1 oregon 2 seconds betwixt the conveyance and the victim's phone. 

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Digital forensics expert Shanon Burgess looks astatine defence lawyer Robert Alessi during the Karen Read proceedings connected May 20, 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

Using different metrics, including idiosyncratic information stored successful the Lexus that anterior analysts failed to place and recover, the variance inflates to betwixt 21 and 29 seconds, Burgess testified.

It is unclear whether Burgess' credibility is moving retired of state with jurors aft Alessi recovered online resumes that wrongly stated helium has a bachelor's grade from the University of Alabama.

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"This adept needs to spell home," said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts defence lawyer who is pursuing the case. She said the prosecution is risking the accidental that jurors volition find him "shady" and disregard his findings, adjacent though a bachelor's grade is not required successful his field. 

John O’Keefe (Boston Police Department)

"This is a execution trial," she told Fox News Digital. "And the information that helium got the opening and the extremity day connected the descent incorrect conscionable screams his enactment is sloppy and helium does not fact-check his work." 

She pointed to Burgess’ evident mix-up of bits and bytes erstwhile referring to information obtained from Read’s SUV. 

"Attorney Alessi acceptable up a trap that helium walked into, which destroyed Burgess connected the stand," Edwards said. "Precision matters erstwhile you are a tech expert." 

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Special authoritative Hank Brennan is shown during Karen Read's execution proceedings connected May 12, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via AP/Pool)

Burgess testified that helium does not person a bachelor's degree, contempt his authoritative Aperture bio and an aged LinkedIn account, which appears to person been deactivated successful the past fewer days, stating otherwise.

Brennan attempted to repair the harm by showing jurors 2 updated resumes, from past twelvemonth and this year, that Burgess had submitted to the defence anterior to trial, showing his credentials. Neither claimed that helium has a bachelor's degree.

"Did you ever perceive of Bill Gates?" Brennan asked. 

"Yes," Burgess replied, referring to the billionaire Microsoft laminitis who famously dropped retired of Harvard earlier graduation. 

Burgess yet said helium would similar to get his bachelor's grade immoderate day, but "work, household and life" support getting successful the way.

"As a idiosyncratic objective, I would similar to decorativeness my bachelor's," Burgess testified. "But again, enactment and beingness gets successful the way."

After helium near the witnesser stand, Brennan played 3 clips of Read discussing the timeline successful her ain words for a TV documentary. She said she believes O'Keefe died astir 12:30 a.m. connected Jan. 29, 2022.

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The adjacent witnesser was Christina Hanley, an expert astatine the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab who examined the breached solid recovered adjacent O'Keefe's remains astatine 34 Fairview Road successful Canton, astir 20 miles south of Boston.

Hanley is expected to instrumentality to the basal astatine 9 a.m. Wednesday.