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  "description": "Day 18 opened with the conclusion of ATF agent Brian Higgins's testimony, culminating in a recross that placed his phone destruction on September 29, 2022 — one day before he was served with a court preservation order — a timeline he could not explain away. The prosecution then called ER physician Justin Rice, who documented O'Keefe's severe hypothermia (80.1°F), a 7mm laceration above his right eye, and the absence of any fractures or injuries below the neck — a finding the defense leveraged to cast doubt on a vehicle strike. Lab director Gary Faller and toxicologist Nicholas Roberts addressed Karen Read's hospital blood alcohol result of 93 mg/dL, with Roberts performing a retrograde extrapolation placing her estimated BAC between 0.135 and 0.292 at 12:45 a.m., a range the defense attacked as built on police-supplied assumptions and so wide as to be meaningless. Canton DPW superintendent Michael Trotta testified about the plow trucks operating on Fairview Road that night, and IT manager Louis Jutras established that the State Police never asked him to permanently preserve municipal surveillance footage covering Washington Street, allowing it to auto-delete before the defense could obtain it. A juvenile witness testified mid-day under a media blackout order.",
  "path": "/trial-1/day/18/",
  "publishedAt": "2024-05-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:vd3vzujxkxsthkswrc2zzupm/site.standard.publication/krt",
  "title": "Day 18 — Higgins (cont), Rice, Faller, N. Roberts +2 more",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T13:28:24.184Z"
}