A legal expert revealed that the Karen family, who has read her late boyfriend, may not get justice in the illegal death lawsuit after a major ruling from the jury in the killing trial.
Reading a jury, 45, this week of departure John Okev, a Boston police officer, to die in a snowstorm after hitting her car.
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Reading has always been forbidden to kill her boyfriend outside a house in 2022 and insisted that she was a target for the police to cover up her framing on the death of Okif.
After the 36 -day killing trial, a jury ruled that it had not been hit by its car – and only entered it into driving.
It was sentenced to one year's imprisonment of monitoring and seasons.
A lawsuit against the Okif family, which filed an illegal death, was still filed in 2024, but it has escaped from it after the jury in its criminal trial did not decide that it struck it.
The civil case was pending pending the results of the trial.
Neama Rahmani, head of Western trial attorneys in Los Angeles, spoke to Sun Us about the ruling and future legal reading drama.
He said: “The ruling is no less than the complete and comprehensive justification for reading, its supporters, and its defense team.
“The test for a year is nothing, not even a slap on the wrist.
“I raise my hat for them, but I also have to invite the Commonwealth to one of the most failed investigations and trials that have been dealt with poorly – twice – in the history of the state.
The most expensive condemnation of Oui/Dui at all. “
Lawyer Nima Al -Rahmi
“There are many mistakes that must be called, but I will start with conflicts of interests, broken evidence, excessive shipping, non -professional law enforcement and attack, and unreasonable expert witnesses, and failed to understand and confront public relations battle.
“The claim spent millions of dollars to secure the most expensive condemnation of Oui/Dui at all.”
The investigation was widely criticized for being astonished due to the failure to deal with the scene as a crime scene, especially given the police officers involved in the site where the victim was found.
While dealing with thick snow, investigators used individual cups and plastic bags instead of appropriate evidence bags, I heard the jury.
The main investigator, Michael Proutept, faced accusations of biases for the offensive text messages he sent about reading.
Al -Rahmi explained: “The jury did not find that the reading struck Okiv with its car, only that it was driving its car under the influence of alcohol, which was read during the numerous interviews on it.
“The illegal death trial has a different and less level, but the civil lawyers of the Okif family have a difficult battle in proving responsibility in this case.
“The Criminal Alliance Authority unanimously found that the reading was drunk drunk, but it did not reach Okif.
“The Civil Jury should reach the completely opposite conclusion.
“It is possible, but it is unlikely that you are different jurors who have now been found that reading did not kill O'keefe and leave the scene.”
The Okev family first filed an illicit death lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Pleimmouth in Bructon in August 2024 after the first criminal trial ended in a light trial for a suspended jury.
The lawsuit seeks at least 50,000 dollars as compensation for “conscious pain and suffering, fear of imminent death, illegal death, the lost value in the headquarters, severe and deep emotional distress that appears in physical symptoms, and other compensatory damage.”
A judge ruled that reading would not be removed or interrogated until after her criminal trial.
Table of Karen Reed's case
Karen Reed, a Mansfield woman who was absolved of her deadly policeman with her SUV in January 2022, began re -trial it in April 2025.
A judge announced that it is a trial on July 1, 2024, after the jury failed to reach a unanimous sentence after five days of deliberations.
- January 29, 2022Okiv's body was found outside the home of a friend.
- February 1, 2022Reading was arrested and charged with unintentional murder, car murder, and he left a murder scene.
- February 2, 2022Read the mentors, not guilty in the local Softon Court.
- June 9, 2022: Accusing the major jury in the state of the charges of second -degree killing, wrong killing, and leaving the scene.
- April 12, 2023Reading lawyers publicly about the court documents that they say contains “bomb clearance information”, including Google's search from Jennifer Mcabi.
- November 20, 2023: Residents of the divided community 903-800 to audit the Canton Police Department on the case.
- May 23, 2023During another hearing before the trial, the defense says that the killing of John Okif is huge coverage that includes law enforcement members, their friends and members of their families.
- February 22, 2024.
- April 12, 2024The defense lawyers in the court say that Brian Albert, his son Colin Albert, and Brian Higgins were able to kill Okiv at the party that night.
- April 16, 2024Reading trial in the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
- May 17, 2024Jennifer Mcabi, who was with reading when I discovered the body of Okif, attest to that while they were searching, she said again and again: “Did I hit him? Was I able to hit him?” She also says the reading later said when emergency workers at the scene: “I hit him.”
- June 3, 2024The defense accuses the police of cultivating shrapnel made from the back of the reading car at the site of the crime.
- June 24, 2024Defense stands their case.
- July 1, 2024: A jury judge announced hanging five days after the deliberations.
- April 22, 2025The second killing trial begins reading.
- June 18, 2025: Reading was acquitted of the second degree killing and left the crime scene. It was only convicted of driving driving.
The family also sues the barin that she was drinking on the night that she died; CF McCarthy's and The Waterfall Bar and Grille in Canton.
They believe that the places are responsible for providing alcohol reading before driving its car in a state of poisoning, risk seriously wounded or death to John Okif.
The trial told the Los Angeles Try Luville, the United States, that it still had to deal with the civil lawsuit for several months to come.
“In the civil lawsuit, she will be asked to witness, which means that she has no right to self -criminalization as is the case during the criminal trial, the burden of proof is much less, and a course of evidence rather than reasonable suspicion,” he said.
“You can still face significant cash damage.
“If there are similar problems that were present in its criminal trial related to whether it is drunk or not, then this can be used in its civil trial and does not need to be reviewed due to the failure to reach the case.”
Soon the Akv family left the court after reading the verdict on Wednesday, and it has not yet commented.
A long -term officer has told NBC10 Boston that they were destroyed and felt as if he were a nightmare for three and a half years.
The demonstrators wore the pink color outside the court and embraced each other after reading the ruling, as some people sang, may God bless America.
He said to the reporters: “No one has fought more difficult for John Okv's justice. What I have, and my team.”
Massachusetts police broke her silence after the verdict in a statement issued on Thursday morning.
Colonel Jeffrey Nobel said that the state police case had pushed the case to review its actions accurately and take concrete steps to provide training in the advanced investigation, ensure appropriate oversight, and enhance accountability.
“Under my supervisor as a colonel, the state police have established, and will continue to improve these greetings,” he said. “Our focus on providing excellent police services that reflect the value of professionalism and maintain the confidence of the public.”
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