Karen Learn
Maintaining Optimistic Amid Homicide Retrial …
Chats, Takes Pics with Properly-Wishers
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Karen Learn seems to be to be taking her retrial for homicide in stride … showing relaxed after a current courtroom look — having a drink and chatting with strangers.
TMZ has obtained photographs of Learn at SAVR, a bistro in Boston’s Seaport District — not lengthy after she completed up one other week of her retrial on Friday.
Eyewitnesses inform us Learn was together with her authorized workforce — together with powerhouse protection legal professional Alan Jackson … who we’re instructed flattered everybody within the bar, working the room and schmoozing like a professional.
The group, who was joined by Boston radio persona Greg Hill, was there for about an hour and a half … and, Karen had an espresso martini or two — just a bit one thing to unwind after what should be a tough couple of weeks for her.
We’re instructed she did not do something rowdy, conserving principally to herself — although she wasn’t standoffish both. A number of teams approached her and requested for a pic together with her and her attorneys, and we’re instructed she obliged all of them.
KR did chat with a pair folks exterior the group, our sources say … and, total, her temper appears upbeat.
As … Karen is charged with second-degree homicide, vehicular manslaughter whereas driving below the affect and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting loss of life after prosecutors declare she ran over her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.
Learn’s attorneys have fired again by claiming she’s the sufferer of a cover-up by legislation enforcement officers who she alleges beat up O’Keefe at a celebration and threw him out within the snow the place he died.
She was tried final summer time … the place a jury voted in favor of acquittal — 12-0 — on each the second-degree homicide cost and the cost of leaving the scene of an accident the place there was harm or loss of life. They did vote 9-3 in favor of conviction regarding the vehicular manslaughter cost.
The lead-up to Learn’s authorized trial has already led to some explosive moments … together with one the place key witness Kerry Roberts admitted she did not really hear Karen Learn ask Jennifer McCabe to go looking Google about hypothermia simply earlier than the three ladies discovered O’Keefe useless, regardless of earlier testimony.
The trial’s nonetheless shifting ahead … however, it seems to be like Karen’s doing her finest to remain constructive within the face of all of the stress.
