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Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly Update, Breaking crime News Now I'm Nicole

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Speaker 1: parton Accidentally hitting reply All can lead to awkward situations,

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Speaker 1: but for Karen Reid it has resulted in a complicated

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Speaker 1: legal dilemma. Reed has faced two trials concerning the death

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Speaker 1: of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. The first

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Speaker 1: trial ended in a hung jury, while she was convicted

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Speaker 1: of dui in the second but acquitted of murder charges.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors alleged that Reid ran O'Keefe down with her car

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Speaker 1: and abandoned him in the snow outside a friend's home,

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Speaker 1: while her defense argued that the residents of that home

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Speaker 1: were responsible for o'keithe's death and attempted to frame her

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Speaker 1: for it. Although the criminal proceedings have concluded, two civil

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Speaker 1: lawsuits are underway. O'Keefe's family is suing Reed and the

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Speaker 1: bars that they visited on the night of his death,

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Speaker 1: while Reid has filed a lawsuit against those she claims

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Speaker 1: are the real perpetrators, as well as the police involved

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Speaker 1: in the investigation. On December sixteen, twenty twenty five, one

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Speaker 1: of Reed's lawyers responded to an email chain with O'Keefe's

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Speaker 1: family's legal team inadvertently bcceing red The email refuted claims

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Speaker 1: from the O'Keefe family that Reed's team had quote leaked

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Speaker 1: to evidence inconsistent with miss Reed Sworn's statement. Shortly after,

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Speaker 1: Reid replied to the email, mistakingly clicking reply all. In

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Speaker 1: emotion submitted to the court, Read's legal team argued that

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Speaker 1: she was unaware of being bcced and believed she was

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Speaker 1: only responding to her attorneys. Upon realizing the mistake, they

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Speaker 1: quickly contacted the opposing party, requesting the messages be deleted

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Speaker 1: and disregarded. However, the attorneys representing O'Keefe's family assert they

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Speaker 1: wished to retain the email, arguing it contains irrelevant factual

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Speaker 1: claims that they had read it prior to recognizing was

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Speaker 1: sent by mistake. Reed's lawyers are now seeking the court's

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Speaker 1: assistance to have the email expunge from the record and

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Speaker 1: excluded as evidence, citing attorney client privilege. In contrast, the

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Speaker 1: O'Keefe family's attorney argued that the privilege was forfeited when

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Speaker 1: Reids selected reply all. The specific content of Reed's email

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Speaker 1: was not included in the court filings. However, a footnote

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Speaker 1: indicated that it could be made available for the judge's

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Speaker 1: private review conducted in his chambers, away from public scrutiny

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Speaker 1: or Prime and Justice News. After this and now to Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: A recently identified opioid is being linked to sixteen deaths

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Speaker 1: in East Tennessee since December, as reported by the Knox

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Speaker 1: County Regional Forensic Center. The new substance, known as cyclorophene,

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Speaker 1: has raised concerns due to its rapid spread and limited

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Speaker 1: information about the drug. The Forensic Center reference to study

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Speaker 1: from the University of Canentucky which suggests a correlation between

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Speaker 1: the drug and arise and fatal overdoses. Chris Thomas, the

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Speaker 1: Chief Administrative Officer and director of the Knox County Regional

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Speaker 1: Forensic Center, expressed concerns, saying, quote, it's appearing at an

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Speaker 1: alarming rate, and at this moment, we cannot determine if

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Speaker 1: we are dealing with a single contaminated batch or if

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Speaker 1: this signifies a new trend. He noted that many of

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Speaker 1: the overdose incidents were linked to the use of other

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Speaker 1: substances such as methan fittamine, and fitenail in combination with

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Speaker 1: the new drug. Initial cases of this drug were reported

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Speaker 1: in Knox County before it spread to surrounding counties, including

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Speaker 1: Rohan mcmih Campbell, Union Anderson, Claiborne, Severe, Marion, and Sequatchee.

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Speaker 1: Doctor dan Rika Polchan, the chief medical examiner from the

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Speaker 1: Knox County Regional Forensic Center, emphasized this drug has not

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Speaker 1: received approval for any clinical use and is not authorized

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Speaker 1: for sale. We have established that it is more potent

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Speaker 1: than fentonyl and even narcan may not fully counter react

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Speaker 1: its effects, potentially requiring multiple doses to avert an overdose.

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Speaker 1: The Knox County Regional Forensic Center first detected this drug

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Speaker 1: in late twenty five, linking it to a case in October.

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Speaker 1: Since then, more than two dozen deaths throughout the state

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Speaker 1: and now to North Carolina. Police are asking for the

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Speaker 1: public's help as they continue to search for a missing

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Speaker 1: thirteen year old boy, Brantley Ferguson. He has been missing

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Speaker 1: since January twenty nine. He was last seen in the Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina area. Authorities are continuing their efforts to locate

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Speaker 1: him and are asking for any assistance from the public.

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Speaker 1: If you have seen Brentley or have any information and

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Speaker 1: know where he is. Please contact the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police

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