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    Karen Read’s lawyers seek emails, phone records from DA Morrissey

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    DEDHAM − Lawyers for Karen Read, Mansfield woman charged with murder of her Boston police officer her boyfriend, Braintree native John O’Keefe, requested that Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey be ordered to turn over his personal emails and cellphone data before his second trial.

    The defense, in its motion, argues that Morrissey may have used his personal email and cell phone to communicate with Stoughton District Court staff and judges while the Read case was previously pending in that court .

    Judge Beverly Cannone declared a mistrial in July. She scheduled a second trial to begin on January 27, 2025. The court confirmed last month that Cannone will oversee Read’s second trial.

    The prosecution and defense filed a joint motion Monday in Norfolk Superior Court requesting a delay in the trial until April.

    In separate filings Friday, Read’s lawyers seek relief from an order to seize a framed transcript that occurred on April 14, 2024, and also challenge the testimony of Shanon Burgess, the prosecution’s expert witness who examined Read’s Lexus SUV.

    Karen Read charged with second degree murder

    Read was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence and leaving the scene of bodily injury and death after O’Keefe’s body was found outside the home of Canton from a fellow Boston police officer on January 29, 2022, during a snowstorm. Prosecutors say Read was drunk and angry when she deliberately hit him.

    But Read’s defense attorneys say she was framed in O’Keefe’s death.

    Read is also charged with involuntary manslaughter while driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of bodily injury and death.

    In the first trial, prosecutors called more than 65 witnesses in testimony that began April 29.

    The defense’s witness list was much shorter and included a plow driver who said he saw nothing on the Canton lawn where O’Keefe’s body was found.

    Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey announced last month that he had appointed special assistant prosecutor Hank Brennan to lead Read’s retrial.

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