The judge presiding over the Karen Read murder case declined a request by her defense team and Norfolk County prosecutors to delay the start of her trial on March 12. Read, 43, of Mansfield, is charged in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in 2022. Judge Beverly Cannone described the desire to postpone the trial as premature and said the schedule would remain for now, according to The Boston Globe.