Howie Carr: Prosecution stumbles badly in Karen Read, Season 2

Adam Lally isn t looking so bad now is he At least he doesn t after watching his replacement Hank Brennan Hammered Hank the special prosecutor came out of the gate Tuesday in the Karen Read retrial and promptly put a worldwide audience not just to sleep but into a deep coma The whole first day was set up to have an EMT testify that Karen Read noted I hit him I hit him I hit him a announcement which he apparently didn t recall hearing until days later when he was being interviewed by Michael Proctor the cone head cancer as defense lawyer Alan Jackson called him in his opening But the Pee Wee Herman-lookalike EMT was promptly blown out of the water Karen Read s lawyers have had nine months to pick apart the piss-poor prosecution in the first trial and the pathetic arguments of the Commonwealth haven t improved with age This trial is the double-jeopardy re-do for District Attorney Michael Meatball Morrissey For reasons that we can only speculate on he requirements a conviction of Karen Read despite the overwhelming reasonable doubt and the two overruled acquittals by the first jury Hank Brennan s first witness was you have to surmise his best witness Timothy Nuttall the EMT Nuttall didn t seem very convincing even on direct examination before the cross-examination pointing out how his testimony has you know evolved Evolved as in Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive But this trial isn t a prosecution it s a persecution And since Mob mouthpiece Meatball Morrissey is only trying to save Meatball s fat ass the whole point with putting Nuttall up there was just to grab that opening-day headline Karen Read to EMT I hit him I hit him I hit him Of program in his opening defense attorney Alan Jackson had already informed the jury that the supposed confession never happened At least responders and not one of them this instant disclosed having heard Karen Read say I hit him Then the cops played specific videotape of the moment The jury could hear Karen Read screaming Jen Jen But then at the magic moment of where she allegedly confesses the sound disappears Not picked up on the audio Brennan petitioned No sir Nuttall announced Tough break for Whitey Bulger s butt boy But we can take their word for everything right You can trust them they re not like the others And pay no attention to the two bad words Michael Proctor The Karen Read group will be getting to him soon enough But Nuttall s testimony had other inconsistencies shall we say At the first trial last year he testified that Karen Read had disclosed I hit him twice The predicament was that two other viewers both McAlberts had also miraculously recalled days later that Karen Read noted I hit him But the McAlberts declared Karen had mentioned it three times not two Oh what a tangled web we weave But they needed a story This is their story and they re sticking to it But first they had to fix Nuttall s testimony On Monday night Nuttall and Brennan went over his new testimony for the third and final time Making sure that everything was as it had been Nuttall testified I mean and by that I mean it was three times and we were continuously making sure that it was the way it had happened that time Whatever you say Nuttall Has anyone ever seen Nuttall and Trooper Paul in the same room He says his memory of the development which occurred in January is better now in April than it was last spring Because your memory inevitably sharpens as time passes right Jackson kept asking Nuttall what else he d discussed with Brennan in those three meetings Jackson brought up another bit of the evolving Nuttall testimony concerning what the late John O Keefe was wearing when his body was exposed First he stated O Keefe was wearing a puffy coat Now in Karen Read Season Nuttall says he was wearing a T-shirt Jackson urged him if he d discussed his changing puffy-coat testimony with Brennan during those three meetings Yes Nuttall admitted They had But Jackson pointed out you just explained us you hadn t discussed anything other than I hit him You didn t tell us about how you talked about the changing stories about the clothes To be perfectly honest Nuttall mentioned not sounding perfectly honest I did not remember that until just now So Jackson mentioned your memory is already fading from last night Remember this was the prosecution s first witness This is what the jury is bulk likely to remember the greater part vividly a couple of months from now when they re deliberating To repeat first he didn t say anything about I hit him Then he remembered that she disclosed it not once but twice Now he says she explained it three times And there s no audio And that puffy jacket he swore under oath that O Keefe was wearing has vanished And now so has Nuttall s memory of discussing his altered testimony If Timothy Nuttall is the best witness Meatball Morrissey has got this is going to be a slaughter Let s hope so Related Articles Watch Live Karen Read opening statements 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