Jury deliberations entering second full day in Karen Read retrial
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By Travis Andersen
Jurors in Karen Read's murder retrial will begin their second full day of deliberations Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court.
The jury did not send any questions to Judge Beverly J. Cannone during a full day of deliberating Monday. Jurors heard closing arguments Friday and then began their deliberations that afternoon.
Read, 45, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence, and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death.
Prosecutors say she backed her Lexus SUV in a drunken rage into her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, early on Jan. 29, 2022, after dropping him off outside a Fairview Road home in Canton following a night of bar-hopping.
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Her lawyers say she was framed and that O'Keefe entered the property, owned at the time by a fellow Boston police officer, where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by a German Shepherd before his body was planted on the front lawn.
Read's first trial ended in a hung jury and she remains free on bail, with throngs of supporters cheering her each day as she comes and goes from the Dedham courthouse with her legal team.
She also faces a wrongful death lawsuit brought by O'Keefe's family in Plymouth Superior Court.
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