You Ever Think Things Can't Get Any Weirder? Yeah, Me Too! The Aftermath Of A Hanging Jury And The Potential Underbelly Of Our Legal System!

  

                                                                              

Judge Beverly Cannone set July 22 as the date the two sides would reconvene for what’s called a status conference following the mistrial in order to facilitate the efficient and orderly progress of the case. At this time, I was having thoughts like, “What the fuck am I going to do for three weeks while I wait for this stupid status conference that is going to tell me nothing?” Every time I end up thinking that this case or story, or whatever you want to call it, can’t get any weirder, it gets SO MUCH WEIRDER!!!!  

On July 3, 2024, Karen Read’s defense attorneys, David Yannetti and Alan Jackson, filed a motion to dismiss counts 1 and 3, second degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident causing death, on the grounds that their client’s 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights were being violated. I immediately thought this was standard procedure and legal mumbo jumbo to throw things at the wall and see what sticks. However, I quickly realized that there was some meat on these bones. 

Once I read the motion, it blew my mind. I keep thinking this must be what everyone who gets duped must think to themselves. I keep trying to figure out the honest explanations for the unexplainable. I haven’t found too many. Once I began to understand that the motion to dismiss had some meat to it, I was fortunate to get a copy of it from a Facebook group I am the administrator for called “Justice For John O’Keefe And Karen Read Uncensored (Mass Corruption) (OG).” It’s the world we live in, I didn’t make the name. My mind was blown once I read it. I learned some things too. Part of the motion read, “because there was no manifest necessity supporting the declaration of a mistrial with respect to the charges on which the jury had agreed that Ms. Read was not guilty and that therefore a retrial on such counts would violate the Double Jeopardy protections of both federal and state constitutions.” My first thought was “What the fuck is a manifest necessity?” I did some looking and found that it is a situation where a court finds that circumstances exist that make it impossible to proceed with a trial or continue with the current proceedings. So I take that to mean there was no situation that prohibited the trial from continuing. I was still really confused and I read on. The long story short version is that both defense attorneys were contacted by 3 separate jurors and they were told by all 3 that the jury was unanimous 12-0 for not guilty of second degree murder and for the leaving the scene of an accident causing death charge (Counts 1 and 3). Now we have hit the motherload. Once the public found about this, everyone proceeded to lose their ever-loving minds! In the words of blogger Aidan Kearney: 

 “I had my mother’s funeral today and while I was gone all hell broke loose. Just when you thought Norfolk County couldn’t get more corrupt, the jury apparently voted 12-0 to acquit Karen Read of murder and Auntie Bev rejected their verdict because they weren’t unanimous on a lesser charge. And she didn’t tell the defense! This is reportedly coming from jurors, so the lie about 10-2 in favor of guilty turned out to be McAlbert propaganda.” 

I found one particular sentence from the motion to be particularly relevant: “Here, there was one obvious alternative: to simply ask the jury to specify the charges on which it was deadlocked.” It really does seem as simple as that. So many have been critical of Judge Cannone and I have reserved judgement, despite overwhelming evidence of unprofessional behavior, because I hadn’t seen a trial in Massachusetts in a long time and wasn’t sure how she fit in to the judicial culture in 2024. Having said that, I am now convinced that Bev is just a really shitty judge, and her lack of care or attention to detail with someone’s liberty on the line has been painfully shocking. She should have polled the jury. She should have asked on which charges they were deadlocked. She should have done something that didn’t make her seem like a biased Karen Read hater!!! We have a right to expect more than this! Her behavior during the trial, for the most part, was completely unacceptable! I felt like I was watching Dottie from Dorchestahh every day and not a Superior Court Judge. Between the heavy audible sighs and her bipolar personality, it is not that surprising that she ended the trial the way she did. It is, however, despicable!

Now we wait!