Karen Read Judge Cuts Off Witness Who Sends 'happy Birthday' Wish To 10-year-old From Stand

The judge overseeing Karen Read's retrial connected execution charges successful nan decease of Boston bull John O'Keefe trim disconnected nan defense's last witnesser Wednesday greeting aft he told jurors he had 3 children and wished his 10-year-old a happy birthday.

"So I was going to opportunity I person 3 kids, a 9-year-old who's really turning 10 coming – happy day Kai – and I person 2 older ones," said Dr. Andrew John Rentschler, a biomechanical technologist and mishap reconstructionist from a patient called ARCCA.

"All right, I'm going to, we're going to extremity this – [use] different example," said Judge Beverly Cannone aft an objection from typical charismatic Hank Brennan.

Brennan has many times tried to person Rentschler's grounds blocked aliases limited. The ARCCA scientists conflict nan state's type of events – and person besides been accused of destroying matter messages pinch nan defense they were ordered to springiness to prosecutors arsenic good arsenic slow-walking find disclosures.

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Andrew Rentschler testifies connected nan injuries John O'Keefe received erstwhile he died astatine nan Karen Read retrial, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (Matt Stone /The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Read is accused of mowing down O'Keefe aft a nighttime of drinking and leaving him to dice arsenic she went to his location and near him raging voicemails arsenic his niece and nephew slept successful nan home. He had taken them successful aft they were orphaned erstwhile his sister and brother-in-law died wrong months of 1 another. 

"Was it appropriate? I deliberation it’s his personality," said David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defense attorney and erstwhile charismatic who is pursuing nan trial. "It whitethorn person missed nan mark, but it’s a activity of caller aerial since experts are usually boring."

Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts proceedings lawyer who is besides pursuing nan case, said nan judge apt trim Rentschler disconnected because communicative answers tin distract from nan facts of nan case.

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Karen Read talks pinch her defense squad earlier nan commencement of tribunal and nan assemblage is seated during her retrial successful Norfolk Superior Court, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

"The communicative tin lead to a agelong reply that could beryllium perchance off-topic aliases nan assemblage could return from it thing other that was not intended, for illustration ‘Happy Birthday,’ and only retrieve that part," she told Fox News Digital. "The judge wanted nan witnesser refocused to circumstantial questions pinch focused answers alternatively than perchance rambling astir his 3 kids."

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Rentschler insisted that "details matter" many times arsenic he explained nan basics of nan technological method and took rumor pinch different master study from nan patient Aperture, retained by nan prosecution.

Aperture labeled nan injuries to O'Keefe's limb "lacerations," he said – a word that he testified contradicts nan findings of nan charismatic autopsy, which described them arsenic "superficial abrasions."

Officer John O’Keefe poses for his charismatic headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is presently connected proceedings for execution aft he was recovered dormant extracurricular of a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

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"The superficial abrasions and abrasions hap erstwhile there's rubbing aliases scraping of nan skin, and it conscionable rubs distant nan apical layer, nan epidermis of nan skin," he testified. "Now, a laceration is an existent jagged, ripping aliases tearing of nan tegument which gets down done nan epidermis into nan dermis. So abrasions return overmuch little force. They're little terrible than what a laceration really is."

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Dr. Judson Welcher, an mishap reconstruction expert, testifies during nan execution retrial of Karen Read successful Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, May 29, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Mark Stockwell/AP Photo, Pool)

Based connected his testing, he said that he ruled retired an effect pinch Read's 2021 Lexus LX 570 SUV and O'Keefe's limb arsenic nan origin of those injuries.

"They're inconsistent pinch striking nan taillight aliases being produced arsenic a consequence of interaction pinch nan taillight," he testified.

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The prosecution claims that these insignificant injuries came from an effect pinch Read's surgery taillight aft she allegedly drove into O'Keefe connected Jan. 29, 2022 and near him to dice connected nan crushed successful nan snow.

The defense denies a collision and has claimed nan injuries came from canine teeth and claws.

Aperture's Dr. Judson Welcher testified earlier, based connected integer forensics of telephone and conveyance data, that Read's SUV reversed astatine 75% throttle correct earlier O'Keefe's past conscious relationship pinch his cellphone.