Judge Beverly Cannone will hear a joint request to delay Read’s upcoming retrial, among other motions.
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is back in court Wednesday for a hearing on several key motions, including a joint request to delay her highly anticipated retrial.
Read, 44, is charged with second-degree murder in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors allege she drunkenly struck O’Keefe with her SUV and left him to die in a snowstorm while dropping him off at a house party in Canton on Jan. 29, 2022.
However, Read’s lawyers maintain she was framed in a law enforcement conspiracy, proposing an alternate theory that O’Keefe was beaten after walking into the party on Fairview Road.
In addition to her murder charge, Read is also facing charges of manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Her first trial ended with a hung jury last July, and her retrial is currently slated to begin Jan. 27, though both sides are seeking to push the start date back to April 1.