Karen Learn
Preserving Constructive Amid Homicide Retrial …
Chats, Takes Pics with Nicely-Wishers
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Karen Learn appears 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 images 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 crew — together with powerhouse protection lawyer Alan Jackson … who we’re advised 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 have to be a tough couple of weeks for her.
We’re advised she did not do something rowdy, holding 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 advised she obliged all of them.
KR did chat with a pair individuals outdoors the group, our sources say … and, total, her temper appears upbeat.
As you recognize … Karen is charged with second-degree homicide, vehicular manslaughter whereas driving underneath the affect and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting dying 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 regulation 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 season … 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 damage or dying. 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 truly hear Karen Learn ask Jennifer McCabe to go looking Google about hypothermia simply earlier than the three girls discovered O’Keefe lifeless, regardless of earlier testimony.
The trial’s nonetheless transferring ahead … however, it appears like Karen’s doing her finest to remain constructive within the face of all of the stress.
