If that doesn’t sound familiar to you, it does to me.
But time and time again, they were all saying this for the first time.
On the witness stand.
Not in their official reports.
Not to the Grand Jury.
But now all suddenly having total recall in front of the jury.
Tried, and failed.
This week so far has been red zone turnovers by comparison.
We shouldn’t expect him to deliver testimony like he’s Sir Ian McKellan doingMacBeth.
So his inconsistencies and demeanor on the stand are nothing compared to what happened on the second full day.
The first witness was John O’Keefe’s mom, who was a recent addition to the witness list.
Apparently to give the prosecution some pathos.
Other than to help prove Read is guilty of being a bit of a shrew.
Realizing that, the defense just offered sympathy to the woman and rested.
Pro move by Alan Jackson.
For telling the truth.
Which is ironic, given what she testified to live and in person, just a few hours later.
Essentially, that she lied to the Grand Jury about a very relevant fact in this whole spectacle.
Perhaps a snow plow.
But eventually they settled on it being the passenger side back end of Read’s SUV.
So about four hours before Read, Roberts and McCabe found O’Keefe’s body.
What’s the Commonwealth’s counter argument?
For one thing, they’ve presented data specialists who claim the search was done closer to 6:30am.
So this is a fundamental part of the prosecution’s whole theory of the case.
It takes that bat right out of the defense’s hands.
Nothing to see here.
Except that isn’t how it happened.
Kerry Roberts never heard Read make the request.
We know that thanks to Kerry Roberts.
Which directly contradicts what Roberts told the Grand Jury, also under oath.
She tried to throw in some qualifiers.
She didn’t understand the question at the time.
When the judge asked her directly “Was that a lie?
Did you lie?”
she answered “Not intentionally.”
She said I didnt want to point fingers" or “accuse anyone.”
More commonly known as the crime of perjury.
And this time under oath, chalked it up to herbeing toldthat’s what happened.
By none other than the Googler-in-Chief, Jen McCabe.
As the two of them worked on “the timeline” together.
That’s a bombshell.
Which makes for moderate-to-severe weirdness when you realize they barely knew each other.
Roberts testified they’d only met once before.
Why a family friend was designated for that assignment and not one of John O’Keefe’s actual family?
I haven’t the first clue.
And perhaps it means nothing.
If they had, they would have advised her to seek counsel.
Instead they just used her, and let her get attacked and exposed.
Ethical prosecutors would have raised the issue, dealt with it, and advised her to see counsel.
Lally, who elicited the perjured testimony just ignored it.
This tells you a lot about how this DAs Office works."
Like he had something happened to it."
And more like he had been in a fight.
Whether the jury sees it the same way, only time will tell.
