A lawyer representing several civilian witnesses who testified against Karen Read during her criminal trials blasted her effort to join them to a wrongful death lawsuit she faces from the family of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, as the latest in a “scheme to defame and wrongly malign” them.
The witnesses — Jennifer McCabe, Matthew McCabe, Brian Albert, Nicole Albert and Brian Higgins — were all present at 34 Fairview Road in Canton on Jan. 29, 2022, the night O’Keefe died. The Alberts owned the home at the time.
O’Keefe was found in a snow bank on the front lawn on the morning of the 29th, hours after Read dropped him off there following a night of heavy drinking. She was accused by authorities of backing her SUV into O’Keefe and killing him, but her lawyers claimed the McCabes, Alberts and Higgins were complicit in his death and conspired to frame her.
They named Brian Albert, a Boston police officer, and Higgins, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as part of their third-party culprit defense. Only Jennifer McCabe testified at Read’s second trial this spring, which ended with her acquittal.
At a hearing on the wrongful death suit in September, months after the acquittal, Read’s lawyers revealed that they intended to pursue claims, including violation of civil rights, against those five witnesses.
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