Karen Read trial update: Judge gives prosecutors new evidence

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Karen Read trial update: Judge gives prosecutors new evidence
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Prosecutors in the Karen Read trial will have access to evidence from print and television interviews following the judge's ruling.

The judge presiding over Karen Read's retrial approved the prosecution's request for new evidence related to print and television interviews on Thursday.Read is facing charges of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death. She is accused of hitting her boyfriend John O'Keefe, who worked as a Boston police officer for 16 years, with her car and leaving him to die in 2022.

'What has happened in this interview is that we have three attorneys, a defendant and a reporter having a free reign of interview and then later deciding what parts of the interview they want the public to hear, what parts of the interview they want the Commonwealth to have possession of,' Brennan said at the hearing.Brennan said he intends to use the evidence to show how Read's story has changed over time.

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