Karen Read's Google timeline derailed again as 2nd expert disputes defense claims

A second expert on smartphone forensics testified Wednesday in the Karen Read trial that Jennifer McCabe's Google search about hypothermia happened after John O'Keefe's remains were revealed not before as the defense has argued Jessica Hyde testified that she could say with scientific certainty that McCabe used her iPhone to search the phrase hos sic long to die in cold at a m The defense claim that the search happened at a m hours before investigators say Read McCabe and Kerry Roberts detected O'Keefe dead in the snow at Fairview Road is incorrect she testified The earlier timestamp has no connection to the search but is in fact assigned to the time McCabe opened the browser tab on her phone That testimony supported earlier testimony from Ian Whiffin a digital forensic expert from the firm Cellebrite which makes several of the system and hardware that investigators use to look for information on phones and other devices KAREN READ'S VOICEMAILS TO JOHN O'KEEFE PLAYED IN MURDER TRIAL I F---ING HATE YOU Hyde testified using specific terms hex editors hash values and database files wading into technical details about how phone input is extracted preserved and interpreted Even inexperienced analysts can have trouble making sense of things she testified David Gelman a Philadelphia-area defense attorney who has been following the event questioned the prosecution's decision to have an expert witness for such technical testimony take the stand before the court's midday break For an expert you want them to make it make sense to a -year-old he stated Fox News Digital They failed in current times Add in that it was an incredibly boring subject I would bet the jurors were just looking at the clock the whole time thinking what they will order for lunch KAREN READ TRIAL CANTON COP EXPLAINS USING LEAF BLOWER RED SOLO CUPS STOP SHOP BAG FOR EVIDENCEAfter lunch defense lawyer Robert Alessi handled the cross-examination bringing up the same technical terms and grilling Hyde about her testimony at Read's first trial which he was not part of The trial last year ended with a deadlocked jury leading the state to bring in special prosecutor Hank Brennan to retry the episode Without the jury present Alessi sought the court for permission to reference a latest Maryland affair that he reported proved Hyde was an unreliable witness Judge Beverly Cannone sided with Brennan's organization and announced he could not bring up the judge's decision in that scenario but she mentioned he would be free to cross-examine Hyde on the methodology she used to make her findings KAREN READ SCORES MAJOR WIN AS JUDGE ALLOWS CRASH RECONSTRUCTION TESTIMONYUnder cross-examination she testified that O'Keefe's phone was not secured in alignment with established best practices after police recovered it from the scene She sparred with Alessi often using the same technical terms that may have alienated the jury on direct examination Gelman revealed SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER Jurors don t want to sit through this for days and days he stated They want to get into the meat and potatoes Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder manslaughter and fleeing the scene She could face life in prison if convicted of the top charge Massachusetts prosecutors allege she backed her Lexus SUV into and fatally struck O'Keefe before driving away after a night out drinking in Canton a suburb of Boston Through her defense lawyers she has denied striking him at all JENNIFER MCCABE DOUBLES DOWN ON KAREN READ S ALLEGED 'I HIT HIM' CONFESSION BUT CAN'T FIND IT IN PAPER TRAILEarlier in Wednesday's proceeding Massachusetts State Trooper Connor Keefe took the stand to discuss how he collected evidence in the episode including phones from McCabe and Roberts as well as broken pieces of a taillight and O'Keefe's sneaker from the crime scene At one point he opened an evidence bag in front of the jury and it had three pieces of broken plastic inside not the expected two Do you know if the other piece in the bag is a piece that broke off Brennan required Do you know how that arrived there FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME COMPANY ON X I do not Keefe stated Brennan appealed for the pieces to be moved into evidence but after an objection from Read's defense the court instructed Keefe to place the third piece in a separate evidence bag GET REAL-TIME UPDATES FROM THE FOX TRUE CRIME HUBBut Keefe's testimony helped prosecutors establish a firm timeline of when and where police discovered broken taillight fragments in the snow-covered street in front of Fairview Road where O'Keefe and Read had been seen the night before Testimony is expected to resume shortly after a m Thursday