Karen Read -- the Massachusetts woman accused of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe in 2022 -- has just been found not guilty of murder.
00:00Huge news in the Karen Reed trial. She has won. Won flat out in the murder case involving her cop boyfriend. The jury acquitted her on the charge of murder, acquitted her on the charge of manslaughter in the operation of a motor vehicle, acquitted her on leaving the scene of an accident, convicted her of the misdemeanor of DUI.
00:26This is a huge victory in the retrial of Karen Reed. This is such a big deal. Remember, her argument is she was framed by cops who she believes killed her ex-boyfriend.
00:41And the jury of her peers seemed to buy that. There was cheers in the courtroom when this verdict was read. There was cheers outside the courtroom when this verdict was read. And you can see the relief and joy on her face as well.
00:55This is just undeniably, this has got to be incredibly humiliating for prosecutors because they retried her.
01:07Because remember, in the first case, which I think was just such a miscarriage, in the first case, the jury found 12 to 0 she was not guilty of second-degree murder, yet she was retried for it because of this technicality.
01:20So that's her lawyer on the left there, Alan Jackson, who really engineered this.
01:24He's a Los Angeles lawyer who came out to Boston, to Massachusetts, to try this case twice.
01:32And it is a huge victory.
01:34Big win for him, too.
01:35Huge for Alan.
01:36Yeah, but you know something like, who else did this?
01:40Who else did this? In my view, it was a crime of passion.
01:43And, you know, they convict her on the DWI.
01:48Well, wait a minute.
01:48But, Jamie, you ask who else did this, what she said all along was, not me, it was the cops.
01:54It was the cops at the party.
01:56Why aren't the police looking into that?
01:59Well, that's the question.
02:01Maybe they will now.
02:02Because it's the police.
02:03Now, this has been firmly proven that she's not to do it.
02:06Then have the feds do it.
02:07Well, Jamie, you're not on board with the jury right here.
02:14They made this.
02:15Well, it was obvious to me.
02:16I mean, all you have to do is look at the pictures of her with the bulging eyes.
02:20I mean, you know.
02:21No, no, no, no, no.
02:22Come on, Jamie.
02:22Well, not just the jury.
02:23Apparently, two juries, basically.
02:25Well, two juries.
02:25Right.
02:26So he's against two juries.
02:27Yeah, I mean, we are talking about two juries, at least on the murder count, that said not guilty.
02:34So just I don't know how to express the embarrassment on the part of prosecutors.
02:43And at the same time, just an enormous, enormous vindication for Karen Reed.
02:49This is Vic in Chicago.
02:51If I'm her, I'm booking a one-way ticket immediately, like tonight.
02:55Like, you don't hang around Boston after that.
02:56Like, you get out.
02:58LA is lovely right now.
02:59Find a juice bar.
03:00Reinvent yourself.
03:01Maybe open a yoga studio where no one's trying to fight in the parking lot.
03:05But you're guilty, not guilty legally, but socially in Boston.
03:09You may not even make it out of Dunkin' Donuts next morning.
03:11So let me tell you, Boston, a lot of Boston is right behind Karen Reed.
