Karen Read's probation sentence includes alcohol course, temporary loss of driver's license
Read's probation began June 18 and will end on the same day next year, the office said.
Read was acquitted on charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death in connection to the death of John O'Keefe, a Boston police officer whose body was found in the snow outside a Canton home in January 2022.
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Prosecutors had alleged that Read backed her SUV into O'Keefe after dropping him off at the house for an afterparty following a night of drinking as a snowstorm moved into the region.
Read's defense attorneys argued that O'Keefe went inside the home where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by the family's German shepherd, before his body was placed on the lawn.
Read still faces a pending wrongful death lawsuit in Plymouth County brought by O'Keefe's family.
Read's attorneys, David Yannetti and Alan Jackson, could not be reached for comment.
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