Karen Learn spoke out after courtroom Wednesday, saying key prosecution witness Jennifer McCabe is “mendacity” about what occurred on the day of John O’Keefe’s demise.
As she left courtroom on Wednesday, Learn was requested what she considered McCabe’s change in demeanor from Learn’s first trial final yr to the second trial.
“Change in demeanor? I did not discover,” Learn stated.
She was additionally requested if she requested McCabe to make the notorious Google search of “hos lengthy to die in chilly,” as McCabe claims.
“I didn’t inform Jen to make a Google search,” Learn replied. “I actually did not inform her to make one at 2:27 both,” she added, referencing her protection staff’s declare that McCabe truly made the search hours earlier than O’Keefe was discovered within the snow exterior 34 Fairview Street in Canton.
“We all know all the main points, we all know all of the adjustments in statements,” Learn added. “It is simply what’s going to her response be. It is extra of the identical — inconsistencies, each assertion’s completely different, below oath, not below oath, the cops are all incorrect. That is similar to what we noticed a yr in the past.
Requested why McCabe’s testimony was so inconsistent, Learn replied sharply, “As a result of she’s mendacity.”
McCabe is taken into account a central determine within the case, as she was one of many two individuals who had been with Learn when O’Keefe was discovered. Thus far, she is coming throughout a lot in another way within the second trial — she seems friendlier, she’s smiling all through her testimony, and he or she’s making eye contact with the jury and smiling broadly when she does so.
Michael Coyne, NBC10 Boston’s chief authorized analyst, stated he thinks McCabe has been holding her personal towards high-powered protection lawyer Alan Jackson.
“I am not so positive that he is doing it as successfully as you prefer to. You’d truly suppose the large time celebrity Hollywood lawyer can be an entire mismatch towards the basketball mother from the suburbs.”
“I feel she’s greater than held her personal, and I feel at occasions, that sympathy — there are jurors in all probability who’re considering, ‘Properly, boy, would he do this to me if I used to be on the stand?’ Others may properly be taking it as, ‘Properly, she’s nonetheless not telling the whole reality about a few of the earlier statements.’ So it is truly a toss up as to how the jury is receiving it in its entirety.
However what about Learn’s “mendacity” allegation?
“There is a jury instruction that claims if a witness has lied about something, you might be free to disbelieve the whole thing of their testimony,” Coyne stated. “So there are issues with the testimony. The benefit is I assumed it may’ve been so much worse. Proper now she’s holding her personal.”
McCabe is not finished testifying. Courtroom is not going to be in session on Thursday, however she’s going to return to the witness stand once more on Friday, as Jackson stated he nonetheless has a number of hours of questions for her.
