On January 28, 2022, Karen Read and John O'Keefe exchanged flirtatious texts and shared drinks at a local bar.
Witnesses testified that after leaving the bar, Karen Read asked someone to drive her home.
In the ongoing Karen Read trial, jurors have heard testimony from various sources regarding the events leading up to the death of John O'Keefe. According to reports, on January 28, 2022, Read and O'Keefe were at a local bar where they exchanged flirtatious texts and shared drinks. Witnesses testified that after leaving the bar, Read asked
Two doctors testified about Read's clinical test results for alcohol in her system.
Accuracy
The Karen Read murder trial resumed after the long holiday weekend.
Karen Read was brought to Good Samaritan Hospital under a Section 12 order on January 29, 2022.
The trial is only scheduled to be in session for one day this week.
Karen Read's blood alcohol content (BAC) was 0.093% at the time of her arrival at the hospital.
Nicholas Roberts estimated that Karen Read’s BAC would have been a minimum of 0.135% or a maximum of 0.292% around midnight on January 28, 2022.
On January 29, 2022 at around midnight, a dark SUV was captured on video footage near the town library.
Read was driving her black SUV on the night of O’Keefe’s death according to witnesses.
Karen Read asked ‘Did I hit him?’ before John O’Keefe was found.
Karen Read also said ‘I hit him.’
Deception
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Fallacies
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The article contains some inflammatory rhetoric and an appeal to authority, but no formal or dichotomous fallacies are present. The authors use the phrase 'fireworks' to describe the expected intensity of Higgins' testimony, implying that it will be dramatic or explosive. This is an example of inflammatory rhetoric as it attempts to elicit an emotional response from the reader without providing any actual evidence or reasoning for why Higgins' testimony would be particularly significant. The authors also refer to Higgins as a 'key witness for the prosecution' and describe his testimony last week as being used by the prosecution to give the jury motive for Read being responsible for O'Keefe's death. This is an example of an appeal to authority, as it implies that because Higgins is a witness for the prosecution, his testimony must be trustworthy and significant without any actual evidence or reasoning being provided in the article.
The prosecution used Higgins’ testimony last week to show that Read and O’Keefe were having issues in their relationship in an attempt to give the jury motive for Read being responsible for her boyfriend’s death.
Higgins is seen as a key witness for the prosecution because of his flirty text exchanges with Read.
But the messages between Higgins and O’Keefe eventually slowed down and Higgins got rid of the phone that they were on. It’s something Read’s lawyers pointed out in their cross-examination to introduce motive that maybe Higgins had motive to kill O’Keefe.
