Week 6 closed out the month of May and the Commonwealth's case in chief. During the Week 6 trial days, we met a new engineer. He goes by the name of Dr. Judson Welcher. If you watched the trial and testimony live, you became very familiar with his strategy....which seemed more like a magic trick than actual scientific testing. Dr. Welcher pulled a page out of a Stephen King thriller or Barbara Schroeder film. He "oosurped "(or attempted) John O'Keefe's life. He all but had Karen call him 53 times in a row just to ignore and send to voicemail, in an attempt to truly prepare for this method style acting.

Covered in blue grease paint, his slight of hand tricks left everyone watching with less answers than we had before. He could not confirm an actual speed at the point of alleged impact. He could not confirm the position of John's body at the point of alleged impact. He could not use a crash test dummy. He could not behave himself in court. He could not pass go, however he did collect four hundred thousand dollars.

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Week five was a short week. Monday and Tuesday were full days and Wednesday was a half day, ending just in time for the crew to get to Cape Cod for the long weekend. Crack the hard seltzers y'all...this week was short but eventful.

Commonwealth's case in chief continued with calling more DNA experts to the stand to testify to items tested for John O'Keefe's DNA as well as the testing of Trooper Proctor and Bukhenik's buccal swabs.

After they were done questioning experts about DNA, Shann Burgess was called to testify. And boy did he. There has been a lot of chatter following this expert (or is he) testimony. Alessi dug up everything on this guy and taught us some new SAT vocab. Mendacity. Do you know what it means? You do after week 5!

Holy Science! After the spicy sauna session with Bukhenik, the Commonwealth proceeded to call a lot of witnesses to testify about evidence collection, DNA testing, tail light reconstruction and magical mystery hair. This episode is the follow up to our last episode, which finished week 3 and started on week 4 because they just weren't done with Sergeant Bukhenik.

Trial Days 15-17 included testimony from Officers Clarke, Gallerani, Brent as well as Maureen Hartnett, Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, Ash Vallier and ended with a Rule 14 violation and motion to exclude changes to an expert witnesses' testimony and report.

Last week, the panel of witnesses was robust and so I decided to break up the recaps because Jessica Hyde and Officer Bukhenik were very important to the Commonwealth's case in chief. They are also important witnesses for the defense in terms of cross examination. Attorney Alessi, of course, handles Ms. Hyde with respect and dignity, while also showing her where she is wrong. Alan Jackson then spent a grueling 3 days trying to extract information from Sergeant Bukhenik. Pulling teeth has to be easier. During the Commonwealth's direct questioning, they interestingly position Sergeant Bukhenik as though he was the co-Lead Investigator on the case. More new information is revealed, including never before heard texts, never before seen video, and never before believed excuses.