Crime
Learn is accused of placing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, together with her automotive and leaving him to die within the snow final yr.
The case in opposition to Karen Learn, the Mansfield girl accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, is due again in courtroom Friday morning for a listening to on a number of new motions.
Prosecutors say Learn struck John O’Keefe together with her automotive and left him to die within the snow whereas dropping him off at a fellow Boston police officer’s house in Canton on Jan. 29, 2022. Her legal professionals have argued that she is being framed, and that O’Keefe was truly crushed to demise.
Learn’s attorneys are actually asking the courtroom to return $80,000 in bail cash and go away Learn free on private recognizance. The protection staff can be requesting knowledge on Canton’s snow plows and information on a Google Nest digital camera that the house owner, Brian Albert, allegedly owned however claimed he had not but put in when O’Keefe died.
Prosecutors, in the meantime, are asking for TV footage from interviews Learn gave to NBC’s “Dateline” and ABC’s “Nightline.” They’ve additionally filed a movement requesting safety footage from exterior Learn’s dad and mom’ house in Dighton from the day O’Keefe died.
Investigators beforehand mentioned they spoke with Learn in her dad and mom’ house that day and noticed her SUV parked exterior with a shattered tail gentle.
Watch a livestream of the listening to by way of NBC10 Boston:
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