Hos long must this trial continue?

Every day, in every way, the prosecution’s star witness, Jen McCabe, is being demolished, despite the best efforts of the second-generation hack judge, Beverly Prescott Cannone, to stop the bleeding.

If this trial was a phone call, it would be a butt dial – something that should never have been made, like the seven butt dials that Jen McCabe made to the murder victim, John O’Keefe, right before he became a murder victim.

Seven butt dials! On top of all the butt dials made less than two hours later by the two cops back and forth on the phones they both decided to destroy just before they were ordered not to destroy them.

If this trial was a prize fight, and there was a real ref in the ring, it would already be over. And then somebody would have passed the hat to take up a collection for cab fare to send Jen McCabe back home.

This whole trial is nefarious, to use one of the words of the day as first introduced into the record by Jen McCabe herself, who returned to the courthouse Friday wearing her little cross.

Too late, Jen.

Nefarious made its first appearance when defense attorney Alan Jackson asked Jen about a previously undisclosed phone call she made to her sister, Coco, at 34 Fairview, the death house outside of which John O’Keefe’s body was lying at 5:07 a.m. that snowy morning.

Jackson asked her why she’d never mentioned the phone call to the death house, an hour before O’Keefe’s body was found.

“There’s nothing nefarious,” she harrumphed. “I remembered who I called. I didn’t go back and look at phone records.”

Alan Jackson looked perplexed.

“I didn’t say it was nefarious,” he said. “Why would you use the word ‘nefarious ’?”

“Because,” she said, “there’s nothing nefarious about me calling my sister that is nefarious and I feel like you’re insinuating that it might be and it’s not.”

Jackson saw his opportunity and he took it.

“Do you use that word because it sounds nefarious?”

“No,” she said, “I just used the word ‘cause I think that’s the way you’re trying to portray it.”

“Or do you use the word because you think that’s how it’s coming across – nefarious.”

“Uh, no, not that at all.”

A new lesson to remember: When you’re denying that your statements are nefarious, you are losing.

So much reasonable doubt that you have to wonder if a lot of it isn’t going over the jurors’ heads, it’s coming in so fast.

How about the group chat among the McAlberts. Jen’s husband Matt McCabe, obviously overcome with grief for his dead pal, muses to the family about whether or not Karen Read will cop to lesser charges that will make everything go away.

Before they all have to testify.

“If she pleads out,” Matt says, “it will end. If she fights it it will be an episode.”

Welcome to the episode. A very nefarious episode.

Jackson kept asking her about her earlier testimony before multiple grand juries. She would appear to study the transcript and then look up.

“The pa-pah says I did it. I don’t remem-bah it.”

He’d hand her another transcript.

“I see what I – I read sorry I saw what I jut read I don’t remember my exact words of every testimony but I did read that yes.”

And they’re coming back for more this afternoon. We haven’t even heard from Michael Proctor, the crooked state cop. More later, but for now let’s close with something from Mark Twain:

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

Hos long until somebody stops the fight.

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Karen Read’s lead defense attorney Alan Jackson. (Pool photo/Greg Derr)