Karen Read's Defense Wants Verdict Slip Simplified As Jurors Deliberate Murder Charge

Karen Read's defense squad has revenge a mobility to amend nan verdict gaffe successful her retrial connected execution charges arsenic jurors return to nan courthouse successful Dedham, Massachusetts, for their first afloat time of deliberations successful nan decease of a Boston constabulary serviceman named John O'Keefe.

One of her attorneys, David Yannetti, told nan tribunal Friday aft jurors collapsed for deliberations that he hoped his projected amendments would make it little confusing aft jurors deadlocked successful Read's first proceedings past year, paving nan measurement for nan second, which began connected April 22.

Testimony went connected for much than 30 days earlier closing arguments. Judge Beverly Cannone spent astir an hr reference assemblage instructions earlier jurors began deliberating astir 2:40 p.m. Friday.

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Karen Read exits nan Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. Read is charged pinch sidesplitting her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow by intentionally driving her SUV into him.  (Richard Beetham for Fox New Digital)

Read, 45, is accused of clipping nan 46-year-old pinch nan rear rider broadside of her 2021 Lexus LX 570 SUV successful a drunken hit-and-run during a blizzard successful January 2022.

According to grounds from prosecution experts, he fell backwards and deed his caput connected nan stiff ground, causing a fatal skull fracture connected nan section extracurricular different officer's home, wherever friends were drinking astatine a location party.

The defense denies that a collision occurred betwixt Read's conveyance and nan unfortunate and suggested that a romanticist rival astatine nan statement could person hit him to decease and put his assemblage wherever it was found.

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)

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Prosecutors allege that Read slammed it into reverse aft a drunken statement and near him connected nan crushed to die.

The narration was connected nan rocks astatine nan clip of O'Keefe's death, according to grounds and matter messages publication astatine trial.

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Read's first proceedings ended pinch a deadlocked assemblage past twelvemonth aft nan sheet could not scope a unanimous statement connected each of nan charges against her.

Taillight fragments from an SUV owned by Karen Read is entered into grounds during Karen Read's execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

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She is accused of second-degree murder, drunken driving manslaughter and leaving nan segment of a deadly accident.

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Read could look up to life successful situation if convicted of nan apical charge.