Karen Read's defense wants verdict slip simplified as jurors deliberate murder charge

Karen Read's defence squad has filed a question to amend the verdict gaffe successful her retrial connected execution charges arsenic jurors instrumentality to the courthouse successful Dedham, Massachusetts, for their archetypal afloat time of deliberations successful the decease of a Boston constabulary serviceman named John O'Keefe.

One of her attorneys, David Yannetti, told the tribunal Friday aft jurors broke for deliberations that helium hoped his projected amendments would marque it little confusing aft jurors deadlocked successful Read's archetypal proceedings past year, paving the mode for the second, which began connected April 22.

Testimony went connected for much than 30 days earlier closing arguments. Judge Beverly Cannone spent astir an hr speechmaking assemblage instructions earlier jurors began deliberating astir 2:40 p.m. Friday.

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Karen Read exits the Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. Read is charged with sidesplitting her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow by intentionally driving her SUV into him.  (Richard Beetham for Fox New Digital)

Read, 45, is accused of clipping the 46-year-old with the rear rider broadside of her 2021 Lexus LX 570 SUV successful a drunken hit-and-run during a blizzard successful January 2022.

According to grounds from prosecution experts, helium fell backwards and deed his caput connected the frozen ground, causing a fatal skull fracture connected the tract extracurricular different officer's home, wherever friends were drinking astatine a location party.

The defence denies that a collision occurred betwixt Read's conveyance and the unfortunate and suggested that a romanticist rival astatine the enactment could person bushed him to decease and enactment his assemblage wherever it was found.

Officer John O’Keefe poses for his authoritative headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is presently connected proceedings for execution aft helium was recovered dormant extracurricular of a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

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Prosecutors allege that Read slammed it into reverse aft a drunken statement and near him connected the crushed to die.

The narration was connected the rocks astatine the clip of O'Keefe's death, according to grounds and substance messages work astatine trial.

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Read's archetypal proceedings ended with a deadlocked assemblage past twelvemonth aft the sheet could not scope a unanimous statement connected each of the charges against her.

Taillight fragments from an SUV owned by Karen Read is entered into grounds during Karen Read's execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

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She is accused of second-degree murder, drunken driving manslaughter and leaving the country of a deadly accident.

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Read could look up to beingness successful situation if convicted of the apical charge.