Disputed dog bite expert’s testimony allowed [Video]

Karen Read’s team scored a victory Monday with the judge’s decision to allow a disputed expert to testify at the Massachusetts woman’s second trial for the murder of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Read, 44, of Mansfield, is accused of hitting her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV outside a Canton, Massachusetts, home on Jan. 29, 2022, and leaving him to die in a snowstorm following a night of drinking at two bars.Judge Beverly Cannone ordered Monday that Dr. Marie Russell, a retired emergency room doctor and medical director for a prison in California, would be allowed to testify for the defense, which wants to use her testimony to convince the jury that O’Keefe’s injuries were caused by a dog. “The recognition of dog bite wounds is not within the common knowledge of a layperson and requires expert testimony, and Dr. Russell is a qualified expert as …