US EditionKaren Read's lawyers ask U.S. Supreme Court to step in her case
- Karen Read's attorneys petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case.
- Read's team argues a jury had already acquitted her on some charges.
- Her lawyers argue a retrial violates double jeopardy protections after a deadlocked jury.
- The petition quotes the need to resolve constitutional issues left undecided in *Blueford v. Arkansas*.
- The Supreme Court appeal follows lower court denials, as jury selection proceeds for Read's retrial.
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The Northern Virginia DailyKaren Read's lawyers appeal to US Supreme Court ahead of retrial over death of her police boyfriend
Karen Read's lawyers have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in their bid to drop some charges against her and at least 10 jurors have been chosen in her retrial, less than a year after a judge declared…
Karen Read appeals to Supreme Court as jury selection continues for retrial
(AP) — At least 10 jurors have been chosen in the retrial of Karen Read, less than a year after a judge declared a mistrial on charges that she was responsible for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Jury selection began Tuesday. Lawyers are seeking to seat 16 jurors, with four serving as alternates. Read, of Mansfield, is accused of striking her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in …
Probe of town police in Karen Read case finds no sign of 'conspiracy to frame' slain officer's girlfriend
An independent agency found no evidence of a cover-up by the police department in Canton, Massachusetts, in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe.
Lawyers for Karen Read appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing ‘double jeopardy’
Read and her legal team have already had their argument of double jeopardy rejected by numerous courts so far, and are now appealing to the highest form of judicial court in the country.
Karen Read's lawyers ask U.S. Supreme Court to step in her case
In a filing Thursday night, Read's lawyers asked the nation's highest court to consider a "unanimous, but unannounced decision by a jury following trial that the prosecution failed to prove a defendant guilty."
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