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