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Karen Read’s Attorney Lays Bare Trial Tactics and Prosecution Missteps in Vanity Fair Interview

He points to the prosecution’s choice to sideline a fired investigator and other witnesses as crucial errors that shaped the retrial outcome

Dedham, MA – June 18: Karen Read and lawyer Alan Jackson emerge after her trial outside Norfolk Superior Court on June 18, 2025. (Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Overview

  • Alan Jackson says his firm’s fees for both trials would have totaled about $10 million, a cost Read covered by draining savings and selling her home
  • He revealed the defense was poised to appeal if Judge Beverly Cannone had imposed jail time on Read’s misdemeanor OUI conviction
  • Jackson criticized prosecutors for excluding former trooper Michael Proctor and several afterparty witnesses whose testimony he deemed vital
  • The veteran litigator described his cross-examination approach as meticulously scripted and recounted a moment that won jurors’ favor
  • Read, acquitted of homicide and serving one year of probation, faces ongoing recovery from the emotional strain of her three-and-a-half-year legal ordeal