Karen Read is asking a Massachusetts court to throw out some of the charges against her after a mistrial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe.
A Massachusetts woman is asking the state's highest court to throw out some of the charges against her after her murder trial for the death of her police officer boyfriend ended in a mistrial amid emerging allegations of a corrupt cover-up involving his own colleagues.
Weinberg said multiple jurors came forward after the mistrial to say that they had deadlocked on the manslaughter charge but believed Read was not guilty of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. However, they had not told the judge. He asked to have the jurors brought in to testify on the matter. The panel did not announce a decision Wednesday.
Read has argued that she was framed by the real killers – whom she believes are other members of law enforcement who attacked O'Keefe inside Albert's home and then threw him outside in the storm. None of those officers have been charged with a crime. The medical examiner found that O'Keefe died from blunt force trauma to the head and hypothermia.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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