The defense is up next after attorneys for the state of Massachusetts took a more streamlined approach to try to prove Read’s guilt.

The prosecution in the second trial of Karen Read rested Thursday after about a month of testimony spotlighting evidence from the scene and witnesses who heard the defendant repeatedly say “I hit him” in reference to the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

With four weeks in the rearview mirror, Brennan has yet to call several key witnesses from Read’s first trial, most notably: Michael Proctor, the lead investigator, Brian Albert