Karen Read murder retrial
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The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began.
The Boston-area woman was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend in 2022. The jury was dismissed for the weekend and will resume on Monday.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to give jurors their closing arguments on Friday as her retrial for the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, nears its end.
Karen Read proposed that she personally select which of the jurors would serve as alternates in her murder trial — an idea the judge denied.
Residents of Canton, Massachusetts are looking forward to restoring peace in the town that's been divided by the high-profile case.
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Jury deliberations in the Karen Read retrial began Friday after weeks of testimony in the high-profile murder case that centered on the prosecution's theory of a rocky relationship that turned fatal and the defense's claim of a police cover-up.