Vindicated Karen Read thanks 'greatest' legal team as jurors deliver not guilty verdict in boyfriend's death

Karen Read, yet vindicated aft 2 execution trials successful the 2022 decease of her erstwhile boyfriend, Boston bull John O'Keefe, thanked a vocal assemblage of supporters Wednesday, minutes aft jurors recovered her not blameworthy of each homicide-related charges.

She volition service a twelvemonth connected probation for drunken driving.

Read's father, William Read, credited her ineligible squad for the effect — which spared her the maximum punishment of beingness imprisonment arsenic good arsenic multi-year stints down bars connected a bid of lesser charges.

"I privation to admit the top squad of attorneys," helium told her cheering supporters from the courthouse steps. "Our archetypal 1 that we recovered was David Yannetti. We added Alan Jackson and Liza Little. Bob Alessi you cognize about, each right. It was a fantastic team, but we needed them each to decision this."

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Karen Read exits Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Massachusetts, connected Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Read was recovered not blameworthy successful the execution of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

He besides thanked Read’s vocal supporters and net "content providers."

But it was her ineligible squad that enactment successful the legwork. They were already high-powered lawyers from a trio of America's largest cities: Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Now they've risen to caller heights, experts say.

"All those lawyers tin constitute their tickets successful presumption of what benignant of high-profile cases they privation to grip moving forward, but I'm definite they privation to instrumentality a interruption aft this one," said Maryland lawyer Randolph Rice, who represents the household of Rachel Morin, a parent of 5 whose execution connected a hiking way astatine the hands of a fugitive amerciable migrant prompted legislature hearings.

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Karen Read’s lawyer Alan Jackson talks to reporters aft leaving the Norfolk County Superior Court, May 20, 2025, successful Dedham, Massachusetts. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

"Trials similar these instrumentality it retired of you, some physically and emotionally," helium told Fox News Digital. "I've seen immoderate lawyers that similar to measurement backmost and bash smaller cases for a while, and others similar the precocious and privation to get close backmost and bash different one."

But helium said viewers tin expect to spot them making the rounds connected TV and successful further documentaries.

Read famously sat down for galore interviews aft her archetypal proceedings — an unorthodox determination that prosecutors attempted to usage against her by playing soundbites for the jury. She besides spoke retired repeatedly during the trial, but her lawyers remained tight-lipped owed to the court's gag order.

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Defense lawyer David Yannetti listens to grounds during the proceedings of Karen Read successful Norfolk Superior Court, May 16, 2025, successful Dedham. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle, AP Pool)

"I deliberation this catapults them into a stratosphere of representing celebrities and large cases, which furthers their fame, arsenic agelong arsenic they support winning," Rice said.

The Los Angeles-based Jackson has already enactment that mentation into action. He delivered the opening and closing for the defense. He antecedently prosecuted euphony shaper Phil Spector for the execution of histrion Lana Clarkson and defended histrion Kevin Spacey from Nantucket groping charges.

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Little works for the steadfast wherever Jackson is simply a partner: Werkman Jackson and Quinn. 

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, successful Dedham. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Robert Alessi is simply a spouse astatine the planetary instrumentality steadfast DLA Piper. Read added him to the squad up of her 2nd trial, successful which helium translated analyzable information done questioning of experts who discussed the details of their fields and findings.

And David Yannetti — Read's Boston lawyer and the section lynchpin — whitethorn person the astir to gain.

Even Hank Brennan, the peculiar authoritative who besides came into the lawsuit with a precocious illustration arsenic the erstwhile lawyer for mobster Whitey Bulger, volition likewise spot a boost successful his business, according to Jack Lu, a retired Massachusetts justice and Boston College instrumentality professor.

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Special authoritative Hank Brennan during a luncheon interruption from the Norfolk County Superior Court, May 20, 2025. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

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"They volition each beryllium flooded with caller clients," Lu told Fox News Digital. "Brennan volition beryllium catapulted to stardom due to the fact that anyone tin spot his talent. I would accidental Yannetti and Brennan’s practices spell national."

As for Read, salient lawyer turned ineligible expert Linda Kenney Baden expects her to record a slew of caller lawsuits against the investigators who charged her.

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"Especially a civilian rights suit against [Michael] Proctor," she said, referring to the erstwhile homicide detective who mislaid his occupation implicit texts helium sent astir Read's case.