Karen Read claims murder charge in police officer boyfriend's death is double jeopardy

A Massachusetts pistillate is asking the state's highest tribunal to propulsion retired immoderate of the charges against her aft her execution proceedings for the decease of her constabulary serviceman fellow ended successful a mistrial amid emerging allegations of a corrupt cover-up involving his ain colleagues.

Karen Read, a 44-year-old erstwhile concern professional, was dating John O'Keefe, a 46-year-old Boston constabulary serviceman recovered dormant connected different Boston constabulary officer's beforehand tract successful Canton connected the greeting aft a nor'easter successful January 2022.

The transgression lawsuit against her ended successful a mistrial aft jurors deadlocked pursuing 26 hours of deliberation, but present prosecutors program to effort her again aboriginal adjacent year.

Prosecutors allege that she ran him implicit with her SUV during a drunken combat and past drove off, leaving him injured but live until helium froze to death.

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After the assemblage was dismissed for the day, Karen Read, right, listens arsenic Canton Police Sergeant Michael Lank is questioned by defence lawyer Alan Jackson. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

She appeared earlier the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court connected Wednesday to reason that 2 of the 3 charges successful her archetypal proceedings should beryllium dropped nether a law prohibition connected treble jeopardy, due to the fact that jurors had lone deadlocked connected the third.

"Today’s entreaty goes to the halfway issues regarding treble jeopardy extortion that safeguard defendants, successful this lawsuit Ms. Read, from the hazard of reprosecution for the precise aforesaid offenses for which a anterior assemblage was discharged," Read’s attorney, Martin Weinberg, told a sheet of judges connected the state's highest court, according to The Associated Press.

Officer John O’Keefe poses for his authoritative headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, has been accused of execution aft helium was recovered dormant extracurricular a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

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Weinberg said aggregate jurors came guardant aft the mistrial to accidental that they had deadlocked connected the manslaughter complaint but believed Read was not blameworthy of second-degree murder and leaving the country of a deadly accident. 

However, they had not told the judge.

He asked to person the jurors brought successful to attest connected the matter. The sheet did not denote a determination Wednesday.

Hundreds of Karen Read supporters stitchery successful beforehand of Norfolk County Superior Court earlier 1 of her appearances. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Read has maintained that she dropped O'Keefe disconnected astatine Boston Police Officer Brian Albert's location connected a snowy nighttime and went location aft a nighttime connected the municipality with friends.

Early the adjacent morning, realizing helium had not travel back, she went looking for him with friends. They recovered his assemblage successful the snowfall connected Albert's lawn.

The defence for Karen Read holds up a poster committee containing accusation they assertion exonerates their lawsuit successful the execution of John O'Keefe. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Read has argued that she was framed by the existent killers – whom she believes are different members of law enforcement who attacked O'Keefe wrong Albert's location and past threw him extracurricular successful the storm. None of those officers person been charged with a crime.

Karen Read arrives astatine Norfolk Superior Court for a proceeding to disregard execution charges against her. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The aesculapian examiner recovered that O'Keefe died from blunt unit trauma to the caput and hypothermia.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.