Karen Read Trial Witness Faces Brutal Cross-examination Over Vehicle Data

Karen Read's defense revved up its attacks connected unexpected caller master findings Tuesday, which contradict nan timeline they opportunity proves she didn't deed fellow John O'Keefe pinch her Lexus SUV and time off him to dice successful a blizzard successful 2022.

Shanon Burgess, an master connected conveyance and telephone information from nan integer forensics patient Aperture, returned to nan guidelines for a 2nd time of sadistic cross-examination pinch defense lawyer Robert Alessi astatine nan wheel.

Alessi pointed retired inconsistencies successful Burgess' resume and revealed he sewage nan dates incorrect connected a timeline that was expected to beryllium meticulous "to nan 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 pinch 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 nan accusation successful that achromatic container that you referred to connected nonstop grounds indicates that location was a collision connected Jan. 29," Alessi said. "Does it?" 

"Not by itself," Burgess replied. 

Special charismatic Hank Brennan pumped nan brakes erstwhile he returned for redirect questioning, asking nan master astir flaws he had recovered successful a erstwhile study that indicated O'Keefe, a Boston constabulary officer, was interacting pinch his iPhone aft nan clip erstwhile prosecutors allege he was fatally struck by nan defendant.

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Defense lawyer Robert Alessi makes a constituent arsenic he cross-examines integer forensics expert Shanon Burgess during nan 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 nan soul clocks successful Read's Lexus SUV and O'Keefe's iPhone.

But that doesn't work, Burgess explained, because nan master utilized calls that Read made erstwhile her car was powered off, truthful nan vehicle's soul timepiece had thing to do pinch them. Their timing was nan merchandise of nan soul timepiece connected her smartphone, which he said synced up pinch nan Lexus nan adjacent clip she turned it on.

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

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

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

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

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"This master needs to spell home," said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts defense lawyer who is pursuing nan case. She said nan prosecution is risking nan chance that jurors will find him "shady" and disregard his findings, moreover 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 nan truth that he sewage nan opening and nan extremity day connected nan descent incorrect conscionable screams his activity is sloppy and he 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 group up a trap that he walked into, which destroyed Burgess connected nan stand," Edwards said. "Precision matters erstwhile you are a tech expert." 

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

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

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

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

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

Burgess yet said he would for illustration to get his bachelor's grade immoderate day, but "work, family and life" support getting successful nan way.

"As a individual objective, I would for illustration to decorativeness my bachelor's," Burgess testified. "But again, activity and life gets successful nan way."

After he near nan witnesser stand, Brennan played 3 clips of Read discussing nan 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 nan Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab who examined nan surgery solid recovered adjacent O'Keefe's remains astatine 34 Fairview Road successful Canton, astir 20 miles south of Boston.

Hanley is expected to return to nan guidelines astatine 9 a.m. Wednesday.