Karen Learn is heading again to court docket for spherical two — a decide simply greenlit a second homicide trial within the demise of her BF, John O’Keefe … weeks after declaring it a mistrial following a hung jury.
Massachusetts Decide Beverly Cannone has penciled in Learn’s retrial for January 27, 2025 … dropping the information Monday in entrance of each the prosecution and protection attorneys.
The date is not locked in but as a result of Learn’s lawyer, David Yannetti, talked about to Decide Cannone he is bought one other trial lined up proper earlier than then.
However, Learn’s retrial may not even go down … Cannone mentioned she’ll be listening to arguments August 9 on a protection movement to dismiss the case, and she or he’s anticipating an earful from either side earlier than making her ruling.
The transfer comes after Learn’s lawyer, Alan Jackson, argued earlier this month a retrial would quantity to double jeopardy.
He argued within the authorized docs the decide ought to’ve acquitted Learn — accused of drunkenly working over Jackson in ’22 — on each the homicide cost and the cost of leaving the scene inflicting damage and demise … as a result of the jury unanimously discovered her “not guilty” on these prices.
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However, as we reported … there was no point out of the jury’s unanimity when the decide declared the mistrial.
It was revealed the jury was solely hung up on the vehicular manslaughter cost, with a 9-3 vote leaning towards guilt. However for now, it appears like a contemporary jury will get a shot at reaching a verdict.
