In a flurry of motions on Friday, karen readThe defense sought court orders allowing them to view transcripts of side conversations during his first criminal trial and review any emails or texts sent by Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey about the case.

Read’s lawyers are asking Judge Beverly Cannone to overturn her previous order seizing all transcripts of side conversations during Read’s murder trial earlier this year.

A sidebar is a conversation between the attorneys and the judge that takes place out of reach of the jury. The evidentiary issues discussed during those conversations will be the subject of upcoming motions by Read’s defense team ahead of his second trial, currently scheduled to begin in January.

Prosecutors decided to seize the parallel talks in April of this year, much earlier. Read’s first trial ended in a mistrial – and Cannone extended his order seizing them following a jury motion to seize their names indefinitely. Read’s defense is not seeking disclosure of the jurors’ identities.

Read’s defense asks Cannone, who received a special assignment to the case earlier this week, to rule on the motion without a hearing.

In a separate motion, Read’s defense seeks any communications made by Morrissey from his personal email address and/or cell phone that could constitute evidence in his case, including communications with witnesses and court officials.

The motion comes after revelations in the criminal case involving the blogger. Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney that Morrissey used his personal email address to communicate with court officials. In that email, obtained by a lawyer representing Kearney, Morrissey attached what appeared to be a text message sent to a prosecutor by Jennifer McCabea key witness in the Read case.

Kearney’s aggressive coverage of the Read case has contributed, in part, to his massive profile.

“EM. “Read requests that any ‘exculpatory material evidence’ contained in District Attorney Morrissey’s private communications in connection with her case, which is a matter of public interest, be disclosed,” the document reads.

Morrissey’s communication with judges at Stoughton District Court, where Read was prosecuted, is “extremely troubling and raises concerns about the integrity of this prosecution,” her defense team wrote.

More tests requested on Read’s SUV

The final motion filed by Read’s attorneys on Friday is a response to a request from prosecutors to conduct additional tests on his Lexus SUV in hopes of obtaining more data. The prosecution’s expert stated that not all the data from the SUV was extracted correctly. However, the defense expert said that all data was deleted and that his counterpart simply combined two different types of files.

Despite disagreement over the success or failure of the initial data extraction procedure, Read’s defense agreed to allow a second procedure to be carried out given the possibility that new software and hardware could provide more information about the data.

However, they asked that the court allow a defense expert to be present at any additional testing and to be allowed to stop any testing in progress so as not to compromise the data.

A motion hearing in the case is scheduled for Nov. 13. It is unclear how many of the recent motions filed by both prosecutors and defense attorneys, including a joint motion to Read’s second trial delayed until April 2025 — will be heard then.

Read, 44, is accused of intentionally hitting her then-boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her truck after leaving him outside a Canton home during a snowstorm in January 2022 after one night drinking

Prosecutors say the couple’s relationship was breaking down and Read left O’Keefe to die in the cold.

But Read’s lawyers argue that she is the victim of a police conspiracy and that O’Keefe was fatally beaten inside the Canton home before her body was planted outside.