{"id":542,"date":"2026-09-04T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/karen-read-attorney-reflects-on-deadlocked-jury-and-mistrial-stay\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:59:29","slug":"karen-read-attorney-reflects-on-deadlocked-jury-and-mistrial-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/karen-read-attorney-reflects-on-deadlocked-jury-and-mistrial-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Read Attorney Reflects on Deadlocked Jury and Mistrial Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent broadcast with WBZ-TV, David Yannetti, who served as legal counsel for Karen Read throughout both of her murder trials, addressed the complexities attorneys face when juries fail to reach a verdict. Yannetti described the experience as deeply unsettling, noting that it mirrors the dynamics observed during Read&#8217;s initial trial proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>He recounted how, despite strong confidence in their legal strategy, the prolonged deliberation period left his team questioning the internal deliberations of the jurors. &#8220;We expected a quick verdict despite the length of the trial,&#8221; Yannetti explained. &#8220;And when it dragged on, you can&#8217;t help but speculate on, what&#8217;s going on in there? How can somebody not go along with us? Who&#8217;s fighting? Who&#8217;s with us, who&#8217;s not?&#8221; He emphasized that lawyers are left with &#8220;zero answers&#8221; because the jury room remains inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>Yannetti also assessed the current standoff, suggesting that the deadlock validates the work of Read&#8217;s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington. He stated that Reddington successfully convinced at least some jurors that Read should not be held criminally responsible for the charges.<\/p>\n<a class=\"wp-embedded-video\" href=\"https:\/\/bostoahhb12d.airspace-cdn.cbsivideo.com\/live\/manifest.m3u8\">https:\/\/bostoahhb12d.airspace-cdn.cbsivideo.com\/live\/manifest.m3u8<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Yannetti discusses the emotional toll of hung juries and praises defense counsel Kevin Reddington&#8217;s impact in the Karen Read murder trial mistrial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1293,1292,584,59,26],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-crime","tag-karen-read","tag-law","tag-mistrial","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}