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  "description": "Day 7 opens with a brief evidentiary ruling permitting the prosecution to introduce McCabe's reference to 'Bella's mom's house' as motive evidence. ADA Brennan then completes McCabe's direct examination, playing the 911 call and eliciting her account that Read told a female first responder 'I hit him' three times and asked McCabe to Google hypothermia after police arrived — testimony central to the prosecution's theory. Alan Jackson's cross establishes that McCabe lied to federal investigators in April 2023 about who she contacted before their interview, maps her family's deep ties to Boston PD, Canton PD, and Massachusetts State Police, and demonstrates that no witnesses were separated by law enforcement on the morning of January 29th. On recross, Jackson delivers the day's most consequential sequence: walking through McCabe's grand jury testimony, Trooper Proctor's report, and her conversations with Sergeants Lank and Goode, he establishes that across twelve separate occasions where she was asked about Read's statements, McCabe never once reported the declarative 'I hit him' — only the questions 'Could I have hit him?' and 'Did I hit him?' Jackson also contrasts her Trial 2 'white out' visibility testimony with her Trial 1 account, and establishes she had repeated unobstructed views of the lawn where O'Keefe's body was found and saw nothing unusual during the relevant window.",
  "path": "/trial-2/day/7/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-04-30T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:vd3vzujxkxsthkswrc2zzupm/site.standard.publication/krt",
  "title": "Day 7 — McCabe (Direct cont/Cross)",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T13:28:24.184Z"
}