The latest chapter in the Karen Read saga moves to the state’s highest court, where her attorneys are hoping to convince judges that several charges related to the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend should be dropped. Read is accused of ramming into John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm in January 2022.
FILE- Defendant Karen Read, center, departs Norfolk Superior Court, Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. BOSTON — The latest chapter in the Karen Read saga moves to the state’s highest court, where her attorneys Wednesday are hoping to convince judges that several charges related to the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend should be dropped.
The defense is expected to reiterate arguments made in briefs to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that trying Read again on charges ofDefense attorneys said five jurors came forward after her mistrial to say that they were deadlocked only on a manslaughter count and had agreed that she wasn’t guilty on the other counts. But they hadn’t told the judge.
The defense also arguing that the judge abruptly announced the mistrial in court without first asking each juror to confirm their conclusions about each count. “The defendant was not acquitted of any charge because the jury did not return, announce, and affirm any open and public verdicts of acquittal,” they wrote. “That requirement is not a mere formalism, ministerial act, or empty technicality. It is a fundamental safeguard that ensures no juror’s position is mistaken, misrepresented, or coerced by other jurors.”
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