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"description": "Day 28 consisted entirely of the testimony of Daniel Wolfe, ARCCA's director of accident reconstruction, called by the defense to rebut the Commonwealth's vehicle-strike theory. On direct, Wolfe presented results from six impact tests — laboratory and full-scale — concluding to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty that the damage to Karen Read's Lexus tail light was inconsistent with striking John O'Keefe's arm or body at any tested speed, and that no test reproduced hoodie puncture damage or diffuser failure matching the subject vehicle. ADA Brennan's cross-examination focused on two fronts: a communications scandal involving Wolfe deleting approximately 100 texts with Jackson and switching to encrypted Signal at the defense's direction, and a methodological attack centered on Wolfe's use of a crash dummy arm weighing 26% less than O'Keefe's estimated arm weight. On redirect, Jackson neutralized the weight criticism by establishing O'Keefe's arm was never actually weighed and that kinetic energy at tested speeds rendered the mass differential immaterial. The court recessed for the weekend.",
"path": "/trial-2/day/28/",
"publishedAt": "2025-06-06T00:00:00.000Z",
"site": "at://did:plc:vd3vzujxkxsthkswrc2zzupm/site.standard.publication/krt",
"title": "Day 28 — Wolfe",
"updatedAt": "2026-06-08T13:28:24.184Z"
}