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Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update Breaking Crime Needs Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton an update. In the retrial of Karen Reed,

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Speaker 2: jurors were presented with the concluding testimony from a cell

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Speaker 2: phone expert and the initial statements from a pivotal witness,

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Speaker 2: Jean mccabb. Following their departure from the courtroom, Judge Beverly

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Speaker 2: Canoni delivered a firm ruling that could have significant repercussions

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Speaker 2: for cases like this. Quote even with the distractions, let's

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Speaker 2: focus on the case at hand, Canoni declared, as she

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Speaker 2: decided to permit two contentious witnesses from the forensic and

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Speaker 2: engineering firm ARCA. They will take the stand today. The

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Speaker 2: judge expressed her frustration over what she termed as quote,

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Speaker 2: repeated violations by Reed's legal team regarding the disclosure of

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Speaker 2: information about two ARCA witnesses. However, she ultimately ruled that

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Speaker 2: the defendant's right to a fair trial is of utmost importance. Quote.

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Speaker 2: I will allow the ARCA witnesses to testify, anticipate a

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Speaker 2: thorough cross examination, and permit them to discuss everything they

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Speaker 2: have stated up to yesterday. Canoni confirmed. Daniel Wolfe and

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Speaker 2: Andrew Wetchler employees of ARCA had both previously testified in

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Speaker 2: the first trial, initially introduced as independent experts until it

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Speaker 2: was revealed that the company was in fact paid by

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Speaker 2: the defense. Before departing the bench, CANNONI reminded the defense

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Speaker 2: to adhere to future court orders.

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Speaker 3: And I expect counsel to comply with all rulings and

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Speaker 3: rules of the court and all rules of professional conduct,

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Speaker 3: and no more nonsense. Let's just try this case.

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Speaker 2: Earlier that day, Jeene mccabb took the stand as a

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Speaker 2: pivotal witness. Mccab, who was present at the house party

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Speaker 2: in Canton where O'Keefe was later discovered, had contentious interactions

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Speaker 2: with the defense during last year's trial. In her previous testimony,

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Speaker 2: mccab recounted being at the Waterfall Bar and Grill with

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Speaker 2: a couple on the night in question, and suggested they

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Speaker 2: visit the Albert family home on Fairview Road after the

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Speaker 2: bar closed. Both she and her husband, Matt mccabb testified

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Speaker 2: they saw Reed's SUV parked outside thirty four Fairview Road,

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Speaker 2: but maintained that neither O'Keefe nor Reed ever entered the residence.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't until I got very close over to them

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Speaker 1: that I saw.

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Speaker 2: I saw.

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Speaker 1: Carrie removing the snow from John's face.

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Speaker 2: The defense contends that McCabe's phone was used to conduct

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Speaker 2: a Google search for quote how long to Die in

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Speaker 2: Cold at two twenty seven am, several hours before O'Keefe's

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Speaker 2: body was found in the snow. The prosecution, however, disputes

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Speaker 2: the timing of the search, asserting that Reed requested that

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Speaker 2: search after the body was found. Mccave had previously testified

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Speaker 2: that she transported a very distraught Reed to Fairview Road

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Speaker 2: in Reed's suv, where Read allegedly spotted O'Keefe in the

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Speaker 2: snow before anyone else and made several incriminating remarks. Reid,

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Speaker 2: forty five years old, a former adjunct professor at Bentley University,

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Speaker 2: has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and other

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Speaker 2: charges related to the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police

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Speaker 2: officer John O'Keeffe. Her first trial resulted in a hung jury.

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Speaker 2: Early in the proceedings, the prosecution's cell phone data expert

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Speaker 2: concluded his testimony in within a digital forensics examiner provided

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Speaker 2: a report regarding the movement and temperature of O'Keeffe's cell

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Speaker 2: phone During cross examination, he conceded that it was possible

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Speaker 2: that the phone may have entered the house. Defense attorney

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Speaker 2: Robert Alisi inquired about the health data on O'Keefe's phone,

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Speaker 2: which showed thirty six steps that were taken over twenty

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Speaker 2: seconds at approximately twelve thirty two am. With an ex

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Speaker 2: explained that one potential reason for inaccuracies in movement data

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Speaker 2: could be that the device quote entered the building. The

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Speaker 2: defense aims to persuade the jury that O'Keefe did enter

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Speaker 2: the house, and they say he was allegedly assaulted inside

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Speaker 2: later returned to the outside, where his body was found,

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Speaker 2: although the temperature of his phone's battery continued to decrease,

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Speaker 2: according to the selfon expert. Were crime and justice news

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Speaker 2: after this and now to Alabama, and if you hopped

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Speaker 2: on Interstate eighty five, you certainly weren't the only one.

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Speaker 2: Commuters reported an unexpected sighting a kangaroo on the loose.

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Speaker 2: The adventurous marsupial led to two vehicle crashes, as stated

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Speaker 2: by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, while it made its

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Speaker 2: way from Lee County into Macon County. Drivers captured footage

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Speaker 2: of the kangaroo near mile marker forty six. The unexpected

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Speaker 2: guest temporarily halted try in both directions, and the interstate

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Speaker 2: was shut down as the animal's owner rushed to the

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Speaker 2: scene to recapture. At one point, the kangaroo ventured off

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Speaker 2: the highway and into the nearby woods. Macon County Sheriff

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Speaker 2: Andre Brunson provided live updates during an unusual chase, confirming

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Speaker 2: that the kangaroo was successfully tranquilized before being safely collected

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Speaker 2: and taken back to his waiting vehicle. The kangaroo was

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Speaker 2: eventually secured safely relocated back home. No more hopping on

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Speaker 2: the Interstate for him.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.

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