Brown University professor to testify for defense in Karen Read trial

Canton, MA — A clinical associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Brown University, Elizabeth Laposata, will appear as an expert witness for the defense in the Karen Read trial.

In his opening statement, one of Read’s attorneys, Alan Jackson, maintained that Laposata’s testimony would demonstrate that Officer John O’Keefe did not suffer from hypothermia after being discovered outside 34 Fairview Road in Canton.

“She will testify that John O’Keefe did not suffer from hypothermia, despite the prosecution’s expected claims,” Jackson stated. “His body exhibited no signs—no frostbite, no cold-related organ damage, no injuries consistent with prolonged exposure to freezing temperatures.”

Karen Read’s defense is arguing that O’Keefe must have been injured somewhere else, somewhere warmer, and that his body must have been moved out into the cold.

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