Trial 2 Transcript
Trial 2 / Day 10 / May 6, 2025
9 pages · 5 witnesses · 2,222 lines
Day 10 closes Lt. Gallagher's bruising cross-examination and brings three new witnesses covering weather conditions, Karen Read's overnight phone activity, and the SERT evidence search — all probed by defense for investigative failures and chain-of-custody gaps.
Procedural Procedural - Motions
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JUDGE CANNONE: Do you have another witness?

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MR. BRENNAN: I do.

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MR. BRENNAN: I have some other matters I'd like to introduce before then. Yes, your honor. I'd like to introduce clip one and play it for the jury. clip plays

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VIDEO PLAYBACK: I mean, I didn't think I hit anything, but Craig clipped him. Craig tapped him in the knee and incapacitated him. Um, he didn't look mortally wounded as far as I could see. But could I have done something that knocked him out, and in his drunkenness, and in the cold, didn't come to again? interviewer: And this would have been the moment you dropped him off at the party? Yeah. end clip

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MR. BRENNAN: Your honor, I have keeper of records certificates I'd like to mark for identification. May I approach?

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MR. BRENNAN: Thank you. There's a series of them, your honor.

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MR. BRENNAN: And these are all for identification.

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JUDGE CANNONE: Okay. Ah, right there.

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MR. BRENNAN: Next, I'd like to introduce as an exhibit the text messages that I read with Ms. McCabe. I'd move this into evidence.

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JUDGE CANNONE: All right.

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MR. JACKSON: No objections, your honor.

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JUDGE CANNONE: Thank you.

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MR. BRENNAN: Your honor, may I call the Commonwealth's next witness, please? Commonwealth calls Charles Rae. [unintelligible] If we could, we'll call a different witness who's available. We'll call Kevin O'Hara, please.

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COURT CLERK: Kevin O'Hara.