3 days Ago By Rob Quinn
The Supreme Court has declined to halt Karen Read's second trial. The court rejected her double jeopardy appeal on Monday, meaning her retrial, now in its second week, will continue, reports. Her trial last year on charges of second-degree murder, leaving the scene of a crash, and manslaughter ended in a mistrial.
Her lawyers that she was not guilty on the first two charges but did not inform the judge they were only deadlocked on the manslaughter charge. The court did not ask the prosecution to respond to the appeal, which the sees as "a sign the justices did not think there was a difficult legal issue at stake." reports that Read asked the country's top court to decide two questions about the case: Earlier this month, the Supreme Court from Read's lawyers to postpone the trial until it could review the appeal.
Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, by hitting him with her SUV outside a fellow officer's home in January 2022 and leaving him to die in a blizzard. Defense lawyers argue she was framed after O'Keefe died at a party at the other officer's home. (More stories.
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