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Karen Reid The defense called the expert, who is believed to be his last witness as her lawsuit at the death of Boston police officer John O’Kif, who began in April, is approaching the end.
Prosecutors claim that they read after the night booze, cut O’Kiff in reverse with his Lexus and left him to die near a home party during a record blizzard on January 29, 2022.
Dr. Andrew Rentchler showed briefly on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to return to the stand at least half a day on Wednesday before the defense is resting.
Karen Reed shows that he won’t testify in his defense
Karen read talks with his lawyer Alan Jackson during the re -analysis, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Deedem, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP, pool)
He is the second witness to the Crash Arca reconstruction firm, which is now working in defense but has been retained by the federal government on the eve of the first trial of Richie, which ended with a deadly jury.
Previously in re -examination, his colleague Dr. Daniel Wolfe He said that the damage to the O’KEEFE clothing and the reading SUV were contradictory with the collision between LXUS LX 570 and the 2021 pedestrian and pedestrian.
Rentschler is a biomechanic, an expert on how physics and techniques spread to the human body.
Andrew Rental testifies to the injury that John O’KIF received when he died in Karen’s repeated trial, on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Deedem, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone /Boston Herald via AP, pool)
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“For example, a mechanic engineer can look at a piece of steel and the size and size of the steel. If you apply power in a certain direction, this steel bends, and in the end it will be broken,” he explained.
“Like a biomechist, biomechanical engineer, I do the same, but I look at the human body. How much power needs to be used in what direction to get a certain type of injury.”
Rentschler testified that the collision of 15 km / h between the head of the dummy and the back light, similar to the reading, would not lead to the fracture of the skull. Experts for both parties have previously testified that his fatal injury looks according to a backward fall – although pathological forensic pathologist Dr. Elizabeth Laposate In her opinion, she said that he landed on something “solid” with a granular texture – not on the front lawn where he was found.
Karen Rid’s silence in the murder trial rates on defense
O’KIF officer possesses his official head. O’Kif Karen Reed girlfriend is currently judged for murder after he was found dead outside the Massachusetts house in January 2022. (Boston police department)
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According to Rentschler, he joined Laposate and another defense witness, Doctor Marie Russell, according to the scratching and cuts on the arm of O’Kif, were not caused by the impact at the back of the lantern. The protection theory is that they were bite by the dog.
Reading on Tuesday journalists that he would not testify in his defense – and that Renstchler is the last witness to her team plans to call.
“This is the right step,” said Grace Edwards, Massachusetsk trial of the prosecutor Who closely monitors the case. “This is the only decision of the defendant, whether it is necessary to take a position. In this case, Karen will have to withstand the strict cross -ier interrogation of Brennan, which includes clips from the documentary and any other evidence we do not know about the other statements she expressed.”
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Edwards said she would also have to face her drinking questions, which could violate the “impetus up” her defense, as expert witnesses were repeatedly contradicted by the prosecutor’s office’s requirements.
