Annnddd … we’re back.
The ones who are there against their will.
Drafted, not volunteers.
Who like John Rambo, didn’t ask us; we asked them.
But also from personal experience.
And yet never told a soul a word about it.
Not even his beloved wife.
Until it was all over.
At which point he was basically Donkey fromShrek.
Getting him to shut up was the trick.
But he kept that responsibility sacred.
Jim was an irreverent guy, but for this process he showed reverence.
Which virtually everyone (not 100% but not far from it) does once they’re in it.
So I’ll give a shot to do likewise.
At least not intentionally, which she’s been charged with.
(If it was an accident, it’s not murder, by definition.)
I became convinced something happened inside the Albert family home on 34 Fairview in Canton.
And MA State Trooper Michael Proctor covered it up to protect one of his own.
Anyway, that’s my plan.
How well I stick to it is up to the prosecution and the defense.
From there he got transferred to Inferno Penitentiary, where he’ll be serving out the rest of eternity.
But that’s no reflection on Brennan.
As Hunter S. Thompson put it, “Even Satan deserves good counsel.”
The people who think Read is being framed hated it.
To those who thinks she’s guilty, it was a masterclass.
Laying out a coherent narrative of the case.
Granted, when it comes to public speaking, he’s not exactly Tony Robbins.
He’s there to convince a jury that Karen Read hit John O’Keefe with her car.
He emphasized how witnesses will say she exclaimed, “I hit him!
I hit him!”
Because the same Rule of Threes that applies to comedy, is also helpful at getting a murder conviction.
But that’s getting ahead of ourselves.
And the jury has yet to hear that.
Their warm ups over, and their arms sufficiently loosened up, it was game ON.
And the prosecution got to take the mound first.
At least one who could testify to the crime scene after the incident, Canton firefighter Timothy Nuttall.
He’s the one offering the direct testimony about hearing “I hit him!
Not what he said in his reports.
Not what he told Proctor.
Not even what he said in the first trial, where he mentioned hearing her say it twice.
Which might not be a big deal in the minds of jurors.
And on redirect, Jackson once again drilled holes in Nuttall’s narrative.
More specifically, the way he described the wounds to O’Keefe’s face.
It happens to all of us, even the best like firefighters.
The man is a trained saver of lives and professional risker of his own.
We won’t know for months.
What we do know after Day 1 is both sides are playing for keeps once again.
And The Trial of the Century Season 2 will probably be better than the first.
Let’s just never lose sight of the fact that a good man lost his life.
And hope justice is done, regardless of the outcome.
