“We respect the court’s decision and its legal rationale for staying a civil matter during a pending criminal case against Karen Read. While the court ruled that Read’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is paramount, it acknowledged the media campaign that Read has mounted. The judge decided that the campaign to influence the jury pool will not harm the O’Keefe estate’s right to an impartial jury in its wrongful death suit. But the hypocrisy remains: Read openly offers to answer any media questions and varying versions of the night John O’Keefe was left to die in the snow. As long as she does not have to do so under oath.”
– Marc Diller, lawyer for the estate of John O’Keefe