In an interview with ABC's '20/20,' Karen Read talked about her life after being charged with murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John…
In an interview with ABC's"20/20," Karen Read talked about her life after being charged with murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefewith 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.
Prosecutors said Read, a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, and O'Keefe, a 16-year member of the Boston police, had been drinking heavily before she dropped him off at a party at the home of Brian Albert, a fellow Boston officer. They said she hit him with her SUV before driving away. An autopsy found O'Keefe died of hypothermia and blunt force trauma.
After the mistrial, Read's lawyers presented evidence that four jurors had said they were actually deadlocked only on a third count of manslaughter, and that inside the jury room, they had unanimously agreed that Read was innocent of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. One juror told them that"no one thought she hit him on purpose," her lawyers argued.
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