new prosecutor inside Karen Read’s murder trial Now he’s after the defendant’s parents’ cell phone records.

“(I)t is clear from the defendant’s telephone records that the telephone calls between the defendant and the (phone number) belonging to Janet Read occurred on January 29, 2022, a period after the Commonwealth alleged that the defendant shot. He left the victim to die in blizzard conditions, but not before the victim was found buried under the snow,” special prosecutor Hank Brennan wrote in an affidavit supporting his new request for Verizon phone records.

Brennan’s request for Janet Read’s phone records follows a similar request last month. William Read’s phone recordsand with a similar supporting argument.

Brennan also filed a request for unedited and complete footage of Read’s interviews with ABC, which aired on its Boston affiliate WCVB-TV, and NBC, which aired on its Boston affiliate NBC10. This follows a similar request for materials from Boston 25 News last month.

It all happened through a series of motions that Brennan had filed since the last of the parties. met in court on Wednesday for the first time since the summer.

At that meeting, Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly J. Cannone heard arguments to postpone the trial until April, as both sides wanted; the prosecution’s request to perform a potentially devastating new test on the chips in Read’s Lexus SUV infotainment system; a prosecution motion for a hearing to challenge a defense expert on dog bites; and a defense request for access to transcripts of private sidebar conversations during Read’s first trial, which ended with a hung jury, and declaration of mistrial.

Cannone hasn’t decided yet trial date extension. He allowed transcripts of sidebar conversations to be available to attorneys for trial preparation, but did not make them publicly available. Defense expert schedules December trial date for ‘Daubert’ contest Dr. Marie Russell. He authorized prosecution testing of Lexus chips under the supervision of defense experts.

The defense filed a motion objecting to Brennan’s request for William Read’s phone records, calling the request a “fishing expedition and an improper attempt to invade Mr. Read’s privacy.”

In his new request for Janet Read’s records, Brennan seeks to head off such arguments by making clear that “the Commonwealth’s motion is not a fishing expedition” before pointing to evidence of searches between the two women following the alleged drive-by shooting of Karen Read’s boyfriend. it works. , Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in the early morning hours of January 2022.

Read, 44, of Mansfield, was charged June 9, 2022, in Norfolk Superior Court with second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision causing death.