Karen Read’s attorneys revealed over the weekend the turning point at trial that they believe tanked special prosecutor Hank Brennan’s credibility in front of the jury.

“My immediate thought was, I think he just lost the case,” Read attorney David Yannetti told Canadian lawyer and podcaster Ian Runkle over the weekend. “My immediate thought was that was the biggest gift we could’ve been handed in this trial. I wasn’t concerned about, was it intentional? Was it an accident? Who knew about it? Etc. The optics were terrible. It allowed Alan [Jackson], in closing argument to sort of rattle off a litany of stuff that was suspect.”

He was talking about a misstep Brennan made while questioning defense expert Dr. Daniel Wolfe about holes in the victim’s sweatshirt – holes that a Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab technician put there.

Another juror, speaking with local WCVB-TV over the weekend, said she had gone into the case with an open mind but was leaning toward a guilty verdict before changing her mind over four days of deliberations.

“We’ve got a great democracy, and I am hopeful that the great people of this country that I love will take action, exercise the right to vote, stand up, be heard, and cause reform to be made,” Alessi added.

“And do it in a constructive way, a peaceful way, but an aggressive way.”