Karen Read’s Verdict Could Come Fast—or Not: Here’s What Other Cases Show

A erstwhile Massachusetts financial expert accused of sidesplitting her Boston bull fellow successful a drunken hit-and-run is awaiting her destiny aft a 2nd lengthy proceedings successful a mini courthouse successful Dedham.

Karen Read, 45, faces execution and different charges successful nan decease of 46-year-old John O'Keefe, who had taken successful his orphaned niece and nephew and appeared to want to extremity nan relationship.

Jurors spent conscionable nether 2 hours deliberating Friday and returned Monday for their first afloat day.

"People are retired location wondering why we don’t person a verdict yet," said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts proceedings lawyer who is intimately pursuing nan case. "I deliberation nan assemblage is moving difficult to understand nan requirements of each count and moving done them."

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Karen Read arrives astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. Read is charged pinch sidesplitting her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow by intentionally driving her SUV into him. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

Read's first proceedings ended successful a hung assemblage past twelvemonth aft jurors went much than 25 hours complete 4 days without reaching an agreement.

Deliberations successful different high-profile execution charges scope from conscionable hours to respective days.

OJ Simpson:

OJ Simpson's 1995 lawsuit for nan sidesplitting of ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman was wide televised.  (VINCE BUCCI/AFP )

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OJ Simpson's 1990s double execution proceedings successful nan deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman took 9 months to play out.

The 2 were brutally stabbed to decease extracurricular Brown Simpson's luxe condo successful Los Angeles.

The erstwhile NFL star's ineligible "Dream Team" prevailed – and jurors recovered him not blameworthy successful little than 4 hours.

Simpson was recovered civilly liable and went to situation for an unrelated robbery much than a decade later. He died past twelvemonth aft a conflict pinch cancer.

Casey Anthony:

Casey Anthony reacts while listening to nan defense's closing arguments successful her execution proceedings successful Orlando, Fla., Sunday, July 3, 2011. Anthony pleaded not blameworthy to first-degree execution successful nan decease of her daughter, Caylee.  (AP Photo/Red Huber, Pool)

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A Florida mom accused of sidesplitting her 2-year-old girl Caylee, Casey Anthony was tried connected charges of murder, manslaughter and aggravated kid maltreatment successful 2011.

Caylee was missing for a period earlier her grandparents reported her missing.

Jurors spent astir 11 hours deliberating complete 2 days earlier reaching an statement connected nan charges. They recovered Anthony not blameworthy of sidesplitting aliases abusing her daughter, but they recovered her blameworthy of lying to police.

To this time nary 1 has been convicted of nan child's death.

Scott Peterson:

Scott Peterson was convicted of 2 counts of execution successful nan deaths of his woman Laci Peterson and their unborn child.  (REUTERS/Fred Larson/Pool)

In 2004, jurors convicted Scott Peterson of sidesplitting his pregnant woman Laci and dumping her successful nan San Francisco Bay connected Christmas Eve 2 years earlier.

Their deliberations went connected for 7 days aft a proceedings that took much than 5 months.

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Jurors initially handed him nan decease condemnation for first-degree execution for Laci's decease and second-degree execution for their unborn son, Conner.

Peterson continues to support his innocence and is presently appealing his lawsuit for nan 3rd time. He had his decease condemnation overturned successful 2020 and is serving life without parole.

Alex Murdaugh:

Alex Murdaugh stands adjacent to nan witnesser booth during a break successful his proceedings for execution astatine nan Colleton County Courthouse connected Feb. 23, 2023, successful Colleton County, South Carolina.  (Joshua Boucher/Pool/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Formerly a salient South Carolina lawyer and family man, Murdaugh was convicted successful 2023 of gunning down his woman and younger son, Maggie and Paul.

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After a six-week proceedings – doubly arsenic agelong arsenic first estimates – jurors deliberated for little than 3 hours and found him guilty of some murders positive weapons charges.

Murdaugh is presently serving consecutive life sentences. He is asking for a caller proceedings aft nan tribunal clerk connected his lawsuit was charged pinch aggregate felonies, including allegedly lying to a judge astir Murdaugh's case.

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Although those tests person a wide scope of some clip and results, New York City defense lawyer Louis Gelormino told Fox News Digital that nan longer jurors deliberate successful Dedham, nan amended things look for Read.

"My first homicide proceedings was nan longest deliberation successful NYC, modern history, 9 days," he told Fox News Digital. "Hung Jury. Three months later, they tried him again, and we sewage an acquittal."