Overview
- Jury foreman Charlie DeLoach told Fisher College students he decided early in the retrial, saying he did not take notes after the first witness.
- DeLoach said he believed there was some form of cover-up and faulted investigators for never entering the Canton home where John O’Keefe had been earlier that night.
- He described most witness testimony as not credible, calling O’Keefe’s mother the lone witness he found believable.
- Jurors examined the taillight evidence during deliberations and, DeLoach said, many concluded it differed from the ARCCA materials and had been altered.
- He asserted a manslaughter charge could have produced a conviction, while noting the June verdict acquitted Read of murder and related counts and found her guilty only of operating under the influence.