Opening Statement — Commonwealth

MR. LALLY: directly, and I thank you very much for your attention today and I thank you in anticipation of your close attention as we go through all of the witnesses and all of the evidence in this case. That second time that I do get to address you, what I'll be asking you to do, based on the evidence and, again, as the Court has instructed you, you are the sole arbiters of the facts of this case. You are the ones who find what the facts are, and I reiterate that, facts, and what the evidence demonstrates in this case. And what I submit to you at that time, that second time, is that the only true and just verdict based on that evidence is that the defendant, Karen Read, is guilty of murder in the second degree, striking the victim, Mr. O'Keefe, with a car, knocking him back onto the ground, striking his head on the ground, causing the bleeding in his brain, the swelling and then leaving him there for several hours ina blizzard with temperatures in the teens, winds swirling around snow piling up on his body until she comes with Mrs. McCabe and Mrs. Roberts just after 6:00 a.m. and that she is also guilty of vehicular manslaughter, operating under the influence of liquor and that she is also guilty of leaving the scene after causing death. Thank you very much for your time.