At defense attorney David Yannetti’s prompting, Jonathan Diamandis confirmed he was included on a text chain with the ex-trooper, verifying the text messages sent in the thread.  Special prosecutor Hank Brennan confirmed Diamandis to this day remains close friends with Proctor,

Karen Read’s defense is set to call its first witness on Friday, marking a new phase in her retrial in the killing of John O’Keefe, her off-duty Boston police officer boyfriend whose body was found buried in the snow outside a home in Canton,