Defense pushes for charges to be dismissed in Karen Read case

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A defense attorney for Karen Read implored the court Friday to consider new evidence that several jurors acquitted her on two charges and not force her to be re-prosecuted on them in connection with the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

Read is accused of ramming into John O'Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowstorm in January 2022. Her two-month trial ended last month when jurors declared they were hopelessly deadlocked and a judge declared a mistrial on the fifth day of deliberations.

"We have evidence here that the jury acquitted Ms. Read,"...

 

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