Massachusetts prosecutors say they plan to retry Karen Read on charges she murdered her boyfriend, police officer John O'Keefe, after a judge declared a mistrial. Read's attorneys maintain she was framed.
DEDHAM, Mass. — A Massachusetts judge has declined to dismiss two charges, including murder, in the case of Karen Read, who is blamed in 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 January 2022 snowstorm. Her two-month trial ended in July when jurors declared they were hopelessly deadlocked and a judge declared a mistrial on the fifth day of deliberations.
“Where there was no verdict announced in open court here, retrial of the defendant does not violate the principle of double jeopardy.” Earlier this month, Read’s attorney Marty Weinberg requested that Cannone consider a range of options to prove the jury acquitted Read on the two charges. She could poll the jury, Weinberg said, on whether they reached a verdict on the three counts or bring in the four jurors to be questioned anonymously.
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