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  • 6/18/2025
On Wednesday, the jury in Karen Read's second murder trial was delivered before the court.
Transcript
00:00Will the deliberating jurors remain standing, defendant remain standing, all other parties may be seated.
00:17Your Honor, may the record reflect the 12 deliberating jurors and 6 alternates are present.
00:21Yes.
00:21May I inquire?
00:22Yes.
00:22Mr. Foreman, members of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?
00:25Yes.
00:26Thank you. May I see the papers?
00:27Mr. Foreman, have the verdicts been placed in this envelope, and have they been in your presence ever since?
00:33Yes.
00:33Mr. Foreman, on docket number 2282CR117001, murder in the second degree, what say you is the
01:03defendant at the bar guilty or not guilty?
01:05Not guilty.
01:06So say you, Mr. Foreman?
01:09So say you?
01:10Charter.
01:10No, no, do you agree?
01:12Yes.
01:13Do all of you agree?
01:14Yes.
01:16002, what say you, is the defendant at the bar not guilty or guilty?
01:20Not guilty.
01:21Of.
01:22Of.
01:22Is not guilty or guilty about that charge or any lesser included charge?
01:30Specifically, number five, operating under the influence of liquor by operating a motor vehicle
01:35with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or greater.
01:38Correct?
01:39Yes.
01:39So say you, Mr. Foreman?
01:41Guilty.
01:42So say you all?
01:43Yes.
01:43Yes.
01:44003, what say you, is the defendant at the bar leaving the scene after accident resulting
01:49in death, the defendant not guilty or guilty?
01:51Not guilty.
01:52So say you, Mr. Foreman?
01:53Yes.
01:54So say you all?
01:55Yes.
01:55Charter, hearken your verdict as the court records it.
01:57You upon your oath say the defendant on 001 is not guilty, on 002 is guilty of operating
02:03the influence of liquor, and 003, not guilty.
02:09All right.
02:10Jurors, everybody please be seated.
02:13Jurors, we thank you for your service.
02:16We're going to send you back your services if you please.
02:18I'd like to come back and talk to her a little bit afterwards.
02:22So thank you very much.
02:23All rise.
02:26You can call me.
02:33I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
03:03If it's required by statute, I must inform you that the records regarding the charges
03:06that you have been found not guilty will be sealed by the commissioner of probation
03:10by the court unless you notify the commissioner of probation in writing within 10 days that
03:15you do not want these records sealed.
03:17To request that these records not be sealed, you may use the request not to seal form, which
03:21is posted on the trial court's website on mass.gov.
03:24I cannot accept the form here in court.
03:26You must admit it's a commissioner of probation at the address provided on the form.
03:29Please be aware that if the records regarding the charges which you have been found
03:32not guilty are sealed, you will be unable to access the sealed record of the not guilty
03:36dispositions or any other records regarding those charges.
03:40If you want copies of any documents regarding those charges before the records are sealed,
03:44you should request copies from the court within 10 days.
03:46Do you understand?
03:48All right.
03:48So we need a date for sentencing.
03:51Can we do it next week?
03:52And we would be prepared to go forward today.
03:56Okay.
03:57Can we approach cyber army, please?
03:59Okay.
04:00Okay.
04:22So the standard that everybody else gets on a first-time OUI?
04:50Certainly.
04:51Okay.
04:51We ask that you be treated no differently, no better.
04:53So I'm happy to do it.
04:56All right.
04:56Thank you all.
04:57One year probation.
04:58One year probation on docket number 002, the lesser-included offense of operating under
05:03the influence.
05:04One year probation.
05:04Fire.
05:05The 24-D program is.
05:09All rise.
05:14Goodbye.
05:14Goodbye.
05:20Bye.
05:44Bye.
05:45Bye.

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