Verdict Slips: Choices Karen Read Jurors Face

Karen Read retrial jury sent home for weekend

DEDHAM, Mass. — Jurors who will decide the fate of Karen Read were sent home for the weekend after not quite two hours of deliberation following closing arguments that echoed their openings now more than a month and a half…

Verdict slips: Choices Karen Read jurors face

The jury, which is made up of seven men and five women, will return verdict slips to Judge Beverly Cannone when deliberations come to an end.

Karen Read faces murder charge in Massachusetts again after first jury deadlocked

Prosecutors say Read hit her police officer boyfriend with her car and left him to die in the snow.

Jury in Karen Read’s retrial sent home for weekend without verdict

The case was turned over to the jury after closing arguments and lengthy instructions from Judge Cannone.

Karen Read trial goes to jury deliberations

DEDHAM, Mass. (WLNE) — The jury now has to deliberate in the Karen Read case this afternoon after closing arguments wrapped up Friday. Read stands accused of second-degree murder and faces two lesser charges  in the death of her then-boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in 2022. Her first trial ended in a mistrial after the jury couldn’t agree on a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors allege she hit O’Keefe with her SUV and left him to die i…

Karen Read wanted to pick the alternate jurors herself, motion shows

Karen Read proposed that she personally select which of the jurors would serve as alternates in her murder trial — an idea the judge denied. Her defense team filed a motion Thursday “to ensure transparency in alternate juror selection process” that included among its proposals that Read, charged with the 2022 murder of her boyfriend John O’Keefe, be a significant participant in the process herself. “That, optimally, Ms. Read herself be permitted…