A judge in Massachusetts on Monday declared a mistrial in the murder case of Karen Read after the jury said it was deadlocked because of “deeply held convictions that each of us carry.”
July 1 A judge in Massachusetts on Monday declared a mistrial in the murder case of Karen Read after the jury said it was deadlocked because of “deeply held convictions that each of us carry.”
The jury in Dedham, near Boston, was unable to unanimously decide whether a drunken Read, 44, intentionally backed her SUV into her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, two years ago on a snowy night in Canton. The Mansfield woman said she was framed in a cover-up.
She was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
The jury went home Friday after deliberating for four days.
