Testimony resumes Monday morning – NBC Boston

Jurors in Karen Read’s murder trial return to court Monday morning to face a full day of extended testimony.

Jurors will return to court after recessing last week, when they heard from medical experts about Read’s level of intoxication on the morning John O’Keefe was found dead and from his niece and nephew. to O’Keefe, who confessed that they heard frequent arguments between the two. Two.

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Read is accused of hitting O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead on the lawn of 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts. Her defense says she is framed.

After O’Keefe’s body was found, Read began acting erratically, according to testimony, which led to her admission to Good Samaritan Medical Center.

Blood tests there showed he had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.081 around 9am. This is just over the legal driving limit.

John O’Keefe’s niece and nephew, both minors, testified out of court in the murder trial of Karen Read.

However, a forensic toxicologist says that if Read had her last drink at 12:45 a.m., her BAC around the time O’Keefe was hit would have been 0.13 with a high of 0, 29.

“Just to basically cover anyone in the general population, that they would be somewhere between that lower limit and that upper limit,” said Nicholas Roberts, a former toxicology unit employee at the Massachusetts State Police forensics lab.

Monday will be a full day of testimony with a short lunch break, but there is no court on Tuesday. Wednesday will be a full day, Thursday a half day and then no court on Friday.