Lieutenant Tully
Appearances
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
I didn't have any. When thinking about residents and search warrants and evidence, I need to put the evidence inside the house. And so I don't believe that Mr. O'Keefe entered the home. So I had no nexus to the house.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
I don't. On the contrary, I have evidence that he was outside, but I don't have anything putting him inside the residence.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
I'm the kind of person who wears shorts throughout the year. I'll often go without a jacket.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
It's probably predicated on where you take it off and your relationship to the location.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
Using the term the house. You're talking about any house? 34th Avenue?
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
Well, the question's not accurate to the facts we had at the time.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
We didn't know there was a shoe not accounted for until after noontime.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
And people can often travel from the location of the altercation miles away to another location.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
In the off chance that Mr. Higgins presumably had said something like that, I would certainly need more information describing this person. I would ask a series of questions to narrow it down to make sure that this person was John O'Keefe.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
Well, we determined the veracity of that statement, and we want to make sure that the person who gave it is consistent and accurate and had a good vantage point of it.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
Well, the person has given the statement multiple times and it appears to have changed over those times. It also appears that the person observed this vehicle from a distance. And also the identification of a Ford Edge seemed highly suggestive the way that I had read the account of it. If I had done that as a police officer, this quote would throw out that identification.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
I believe Trooper Proctor and Sergeant McKinnick had investigated that.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
An investigation into the reliability of that witness was conducted.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
The first was that this person saw a Ford Edge in front of 34 Fairview. The next one that I can recall is that the person stated that they were not on Fairview, but on Cedar Crest, some distance away, looking at this vehicle in a blizzard. The person also self-reported that it was colorblind. and he was operating a larger motor vehicle. The third story was a concern about the time.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
As he arrived, the Canton police had the street blocked off at about 4 a.m., and he places this Ford Edge outside the residence at a time before that. So we know through our investigation that the Canton police didn't arrive until shortly after 6 a.m., so the witnesses' times are off as well.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
As I read the report, the investigator had asked the person first a question. They stated that there was a vehicle in front of 34 Fairview Road. The witness was then brought outside, and the investigator allegedly pointed to a motor vehicle that was in a parking lot, and he said, is that it? And the witness said, yes, that's it.
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
Impasse: S1-E8
And so it's suggestive in the fact that it would be a single photo identification, which as a police officer, I would not give somebody one thing and be suggestive. Is this it? Because as the courts have ruled, that's highly suggestive. And the person's more likely to adopt that description of whatever they're describing opposed to if you use other methods.