BOSTON – Karen Read’s legal team has filed an appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Read wants two of the three charges against her dismissed on the grounds of double jeopardy.
Read is accused of hitting her boyfriend Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow in Canton in January 2022 . Read’s attorneys say she was framed, and that O’Keefe was beaten to death inside a home, bitten by a dog and dragged outside to the yard.
Read’s trial ended in a mistrial in July due to a hung jury.
Her lawyers argued that multiple jurors came forward after the mistrial, saying they all agreed unanimously to acquit Read of the second-degree murder charge and of leaving the scene of personal injury and death.
Judge Cannone denied motion to dismiss
Last month, Read’s new attorney Martin Weinberg argued the motion to dismiss under the double jeopardy principle that says someone can’t be tried again after they are acquitted of a crime.