The high-profile case resulted in a mistrial on July 1, and Read’s retrial is slated to begin in January.
The judge presiding over
’s murder case has denied a defense motion to dismiss two of the three charges Read is facing in the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, including second-degree murder.
Citing information they received from five jurors, lawyers for the Mansfield woman said the purportedly deadlocked jury in Read’s first trial internally agreed she was not guilty of murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The defense asserted that jurors only reached an impasse on the count of manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence, which carried lesser included offenses of involuntary manslaughter and motor vehicle homicide.
Read is accused of drunkenly and intentionally backing her SUV into O’Keefe, her boyfriend, after a night of bar-hopping in Canton in January 2022. The high-profile case resulted in a mistrial on July 1, and Read’s retrial is slated to begin in January.