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The countdown is on to Karen Read's second murder trial, and she and her lawyers were back at Norfolk Superior Court ...
The judge in Karen Read's second trial ruled that the defense will not be allowed to blame Colin Albert as part of their third-party culprit defense.
While Karen Read may raise a third-party culprit defense when her retrial begins next month, she can’t try to pin her boyfriend’s death on witness Colin Albert, Judge Beverly Cannone ruled Monday.
Read, 45, is accused of killing her boyfriend, Braintree native and Boston police officer John O'Keefe, by backing into him with her SUV outside a Canton home in January 2022 and leaving him to die in ...
Read’s defense has claimed all three were involved in a fight with O’Keefe where he sustained fatal injuries. While the defense will be able to develop their theory, Cannone ruled they cannot include ...
Jury selection began Tuesday for the second murder trial of Karen Read, a Massachusetts woman accused of running over her ...
Dozens of potential jurors told a Massachusetts judge they already had opinions on the Karen Read-John O'Keefe murder case before arriving in court Tuesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not delay Karen Read’s second murder trial on claims of double jeopardy, setting the stage for ...
Read is accused of hitting her boyfriend John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, with her car and leaving him to die in a January 2022 snowstorm. Just as she did in her first trial, Read has pleaded ...
Evidence at the first trial showed that Colin Albert had already been picked up by the time O’Keefe and Read arrived at 34 Fairview, according to Cannone. Norfolk DA plans to use Karen Read’s ...