re: Karen Read murder trial - Not guilty on main - guilty of OUI(DUI) only

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But I’m thinking one of the Albert’s threw hands and the dog attacked on instincts.

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That's definitely more likely.

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Because the jury had to hear him call Karen Read a retard and he was searching her phone for her nudes. A text thread he was included and participated in. It impeached him both as a State Trooper and a witness.

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More than the impeachment, it demonstrates clear bias against the (then) suspect. Instead of investigating and allowing the evidence to point the way forward and tell the story, they created a story and looked for evidence (and noodz) that they could use to support that story. They never even considered anyone else. It was a botched, bias investigation. The judge refused the defense plan to call an expert witness to discuss the investigation itself and compare it to best practices. They had to use Bukenik to introduce how bad an investigation it was.

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Higgins was 100% moving items from that other truck/suv to his jeep and turned the couple on so that it would look like he actually moved them if key ignitions were looked into.

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^ Please explain this. Haven't been able to tune in today. TIA

This is the Waterfall video broken down frame by frame. I am not saying I think everything said in the video is 100% accurate, but it shows Higgins and O'Keefe had some words.

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Higgins was 100% moving items from that other truck/suv to his jeep and turned the couple on so that it would look like he actually moved them if key ignitions were looked into.

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^ Please explain this. Haven't been able to tune in today. TIA

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In Higgins original testimony, he said he went to the Canton PD to move his work vehicles. Something about making them easier to access using his jeep with the snow plow on the front. Video footage in this trial shows him at Canton PD, walking inside the building, and then spending about 10 minutes in the parking lot NOT moving his work vehicles. He starts each vehicle, but does not move them. He also moves items from his work vehicles into his personal vehicle, the jeep with the snow plow. The camera also catches him talking on the phone, and there's no mention of a phone call in his original testimony around that time (I think between 130 and 2am).

This re-direct isn't bad but every one of his replies is dependent on the jury believing that he is being truthful. I highly doubt they do.

He lost whatever was left of his credibility when he refused to admit Proctor was anything less than an honest, ethical, standup cop.

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Did AJ n Co get his phone records or no?

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I had to look this up earlier. Found an article from the original trial. AJ definitely has some of the records, but the phone was destroyed the day before he was supposed to turn it over.

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“You’ve destroyed that phone, haven’t you?” Jackson asked.

“No, I threw the phone away,” Higgins said.

“Well, that’s destroying the phone, isn’t it?” Jackson countered.

“I had every right to do that,” Higgins maintained.

He said to the best of his recollection, “When I threw it away, if I was going to take [the SIM card] out, I would break it or cut it. But I did not wipe the phone. I did not take anything else off it. But if I was going to throw the phone away, that’s what I would’ve done.”

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Higgins confirmed that he received a notice on Sept. 30, 2022, preventing him from altering or destroying anything on his cellphone. Jackson noted that Higgins previously testified at another hearing that he changed phone carriers and phone numbers on the 29th, one day prior to receiving the protective order.

As for his SIM card, Higgins again testified that it’s possible the card was either cut or broken if he removed it from his phone. “And that would have been after the date the [protective] order was already denied,” he added.

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Jackson also grilled Higgins on his phone conversations with Brian Albert and then-Canton Police Chief Kenneth Berkowitz. Pointing to Higgins’s call history from Jan. 29, 2022, he asked: “Those phone records established that you and Brian Albert actually exchanged not one but two phone calls at 2:22 a.m. that morning, at a time when you claimed you were in bed asleep, correct?”

“I have no recollection of any phone calls,” Higgins replied.

Jackson pointed to phone records indicating Higgins missed a call from Albert and called his friend back a short time later. Both Higgins and Albert have testified that the calls were inadvertent, or “butt dials.”

“So the fact is, you were speaking to Brian Albert in the middle of the night, approximately three hours before Mr. O’Keefe’s body was found in his yard, correct?” Jackson asked.

“No, that’s not correct,” Higgins replied.

“And that was five minutes before 2:27 a.m., when there was a Google search for ‘how long to die in the cold,’ correct?” Jackson continued. Cannone sustained an objection from prosecutors, blocking Higgins from answering.

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Hopefully BH gets called up again

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I think he will be. That's why the defense went through the video of him at the Canton PD with Bukhenik.