When will Karen Learn trial begin? 1 extra juror wanted – NBC Boston

Jury choice is ready to proceed for an eighth day on Thursday in Karen Learn‘s second homicide trial, and it could possibly be nearing an finish with only one extra juror wanted earlier than opening statements can start.

There have been three new jurors chosen Wednesday, bringing the overall to fifteen, only one away from the 16 that Choose Beverly Cannone needs seated earlier than the trial strikes ahead.

Learn’s authorized workforce had requested the Supreme Court docket to delay the beginning of the trial after submitting a petition to have two of her three costs dropped, persevering with their double jeopardy argument, however the court docket declined Wednesday to cease the trial from getting underway.

The court docket will nonetheless think about her request to overturn two of the three costs towards her at a listening to later in April.

NBC10 Boston authorized analyst Michael Coyne is uncertain that enchantment will go wherever, because it’s already been denied by a number of judges.

The Supreme Court docket will not cease Karen Learn’s retrial from going ahead as she appeals to have two costs dropped — and the retrial is closing in, with 15 of 16 jurors chosen. This is what occurred at Norfolk Superior Court docket on Wednesday and what courtroom insider Sue O’Connell makes of the jury choice course of and individuals who’ve been chosen to this point. Plus, a take a look at ATF agent Brian Higgins, one of many two individuals who the protection will likely be allowed to argue is culpable for John O’Keefe’s demise by means of a third-party wrongdoer protection — and skilled Michael Coyne shares what that entails.

Up to now, eight males and 7 ladies have been chosen to the jury for Learn’s retrial — 440 potential jurors have been screened by the court docket. Of these, practically 90% have admitted to realizing concerning the case, which has been extensively publicized.

Regardless of the recognition impacting these early levels of the case, Learn says her workforce is proud of who has been picked for the jury to this point.

“I be ok with all of them, I be ok with all of them. Some I did not and so they’re not our jurors, in order that’s all I can ask for is that I really feel good,” Learn mentioned. “It simply takes one dangerous feeling and also you assume, ‘Ugh god, is my life on this individual’s fingers?’ And I do not really feel that means.”

An alternate juror in trial primary, Victoria George, helps the protection to pick out the jury. Chris Dearnborn, a former public defender and professor at Suffolk Regulation College, mentioned she will deliver distinctive perception to the protection workforce.

”There’s a perspective that individual can deliver to this case that’s unparalleled. It’s like having someone who sat on the primary jury to inform you what labored, what wasn’t working,” Dearborn mentioned.

Because the Karen Learn retrial jury choice continues, with 12 of 16 jurors picked, our courtroom insider Sue O’Connell shares how the method feels totally different this time round and discusses the extraordinary media consideration because the mistrial. Plus, David Richard, a public relations skilled at Emerson School, shares what the protection technique behind the true crime sequence and different intense media protection could also be: “it’s important to be residing underneath a rock, with out web service and a cellphone, to not know what’s occurring in Massachusetts with Karen Learn.”

Earlier this week, Learn mentioned she believed the method was on observe for opening statements to start subsequent Tuesday and he or she remained assured on her means out of court docket Tuesday.

Learn is accused of killing her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, by backing into him together with her SUV at a Canton dwelling throughout a snowy evening in 2022. Her protection workforce alleges that the true killer is being coated for, and Learn is being framed.