Cleared of murder charges, Karen Read could eye legal payback against investigators who cost her

Cleared of execution charges aft her 2nd trial, Karen Read of Massachusetts could prosecute ineligible enactment against a fig of individuals and authorities entities progressive successful the lawsuit against her, according to ineligible analysts.

"She has a mode to writer some the idiosyncratic officers who are violating her privateness who did an probe that was not complete, that was inaccurate, that was incompetent," said Linda Kenney Baden, a New York City defence lawyer whose clients person included Aaron Hernandez, Phil Spector and Casey Anthony.

"And besides she (may) writer the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts State Police for not grooming their officers to bash a competent probe and grooming their officers not to invade her privateness – and which results successful her mendacious apprehension nether the Constitution of the United States." 

She whitethorn besides person a malicious prosecution claim, Kenney Baden said.

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Karen Read astatine her execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., June 3, 2025. (Libby O'Neill/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Read mislaid 2 jobs aft being charged with murder, a complaint she was cleared of Wednesday, and sold her location to assistance screen multimillion-dollar ineligible fees. 

Under the circumstances, the much radical oregon entities she sues who are covered by insurance, the better.

"She wants a full clump of lawyers in, due to the fact that she wants policies, money, policies to cod against," Kenney Baden said.

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Officer John O’Keefe  (Boston Police Department)

On the different hand, she's facing a lawsuit of her ain from O'Keefe's family.

"The much wealth that she tin get, the much wealth that the O'Keefes are going to seek," the lawyer said. But successful the process, Read could besides record a transverse assertion against the 2 Canton bars that are besides facing lawsuits from the O'Keefe family.

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"She tin inactive record against the bars for serving her, due to the fact that the jurors recovered that she drove intoxicated," Kenney Baden said. 

David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defence lawyer and erstwhile prosecutor, told Fox News Digital the precocious cleared Read could acceptable her sights connected section constabulary successful Canton, authorities troopers, idiosyncratic investigators and possibly adjacent the authorities government. 

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Peggy O'Keefe, parent of John O'Keefe, listens to grounds during the Karen Read retrial successful Norfolk Superior Court June 11, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

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"Keep an oculus connected the prosecutor's office," helium said. "Through discovery, if it comes retired that they were successful cahoots, they volition beryllium brought into it."

The Norfolk District Attorney's Office brought successful a peculiar authoritative to grip Read's 2nd proceedings aft the archetypal ended with a deadlocked assemblage and a fired pb homicide investigator.

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The detective, Michael Proctor, sent confidential accusation astir the lawsuit to civilians, according to a authorities constabulary reappraisal that led to his firing. He besides appeared to mock Read's aesculapian conditions, which ineligible experts accidental could beryllium considered an penetration of privacy.

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Paul O'Keefe, member of John O'Keefe, listens to grounds during the Karen Read execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., May 9, 2025. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP, Pool)

"She theoretically could writer 1 oregon much of the officers oregon investigators for usurpation of her constitutional rights, for fabricating reports oregon mendacious submission of evidence," said Randolph Rice, a Maryland-based lawyer who has followed the case. "Then the contented becomes the supervising agency, [which] whitethorn contradict liability due to the fact that they volition reason that it's extracurricular the scope of that investigating officer's employment."

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He said embattled constabulary whitethorn beryllium successful the clear, however, due to the fact that they did found probable origin earlier a expansive jury.