Grand Juror Charged With Leaking Confidential Information In Karen Read Case

A expansive juror successful a national proceeding related to nan Karen Read lawsuit successful suburban Boston has been charged pinch leaking confidential accusation astir closed-door hearings.

Jessica Leslie has already agreed to a plea woody that includes a single-day sentence, for which she will beryllium credited clip served, according to tribunal documents, positive 2 years of probation, tribunal records show.

The lawsuit was revenge connected July 11, and she signed nan plea woody 3 days later.

CLEARED OF MURDER CHARGES, KAREN READ COULD EYE LEGAL PAYBACK AGAINST INVESTIGATORS WHO COST HER

Karen Read, is surrounded by reporters arsenic she and her ineligible squad time off nan Dedham, Mass. courthouse, aft nan judge issued instructions to nan assemblage successful Read's proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Josh Reynolds/AP Photo)

Jurors recovered Read not blameworthy of each homicide-related charges successful nan decease of her erstwhile boyfriend, erstwhile Boston bull John O'Keefe, whom prosecutors alleged had been killed successful a collision pinch Read's SUV.

Read's defense denied nan conveyance ever struck him.

KAREN READ'S LAWYERS IDENTIFY EXACT MOMENT PROSECUTION 'LOST THE CASE' IN MURDER TRIAL

Jurors rejected astir of nan state's lawsuit and recovered her blameworthy of drunken driving.

Read nan national complaint:

Federal prosecutors said Leslie leaked specifications from a May 26, 2022, expansive assemblage proceeding to aggregate group -- spilling nan names of witnesses who appeared earlier nan panel, specifications of their grounds and different evidence that was nether seal.

The recipients of nan leaks were not identified successful tribunal documents.

KAREN READ LANDS LUCRATIVE BOOK DEAL WHILE WITNESSES FACE CONTINUED HARASSMENT AFTER ACQUITTAL

Officer John O’Keefe poses for his charismatic headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is presently connected proceedings for execution aft he was recovered dormant extracurricular of a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

While nan filings do not specifically place nan lawsuit Leslie was a expansive juror on, a root adjacent to nan investigation confirmed to Fox News Digital it was related to Karen Read.

Read's first proceedings connected charges of murder, drunken driving manslaughter and fleeing nan segment of a deadly mishap ended pinch a deadlocked assemblage past year. A 2nd proceedings cleared her of nan astir superior charges.

Karen Read, who is accused of sidesplitting her fellow Boston constabulary Officer John O'Keefe, successful 2022, during her execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

She is still facing a wrongful decease lawsuit brought by O'Keefe's family. The suit besides names 2 bars Read and O'Keefe were drinking astatine successful nan hours earlier his decease – C.F McCarthy's and nan Waterfall Bare and Grille, some successful Canton.

The O'Keefes revenge nan suit successful August 2024, aft Read's first proceedings ended pinch a deadlocked jury. The tribunal put it connected clasp until her 2nd proceedings ended.

Read is accused of "knowingly and deliberately" changing her story, concocting "a conspiracy" and publicizing a "false narrative, thereby frustrating Justice for JJ."

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

JJ was O'Keefe's nickname, and nan family alleges Read's communicative caused them "aggravated affectional distress."

Read's civilian lawyers asked a judge to disregard nan lawsuit past week.