Judge gives Karen Read jurors new verdict slip after jury's 3 questions

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The judge in Karen Read's retrial delivered several additional instructions to the jury Tuesday afternoon — including a new, amended verdict slip — after jurors submitted a series of questions.
Judge Beverly Cannone handed jurors a new verdict slip after receiving a jury question about convicting Read of the lesser included offense of operating under the influence.
The new verdict slip for the charge of manslaughter while operating under the influence included additional language meant to make it easier to follow. She went through the form top to bottom for the jurors.
She explained that jurors could acquit or convict Read of the manslaughter OUI charge and all lesser included charges. The jury could also acquit or convict Read of each lesser included offense.
She asked if the instructions were clearer, and several jurors nodded affirmatively.
Cannone also addressed two other questions. Jurors asked what the 'timeframe' was for Read's operating under the influence charge.
'You folks have all the evidence. It's only you who decide the facts in this case,' Cannone told the jury.
The second question asked how they could consider Read's interviews and whether they were evidence.
Cannone explained that the videos are evidence, and jurors should 'weigh the defendant's statements in the videos as you would any other evidence. Give them whatever weight you deem appropriate.'
The instructions came after brief arguments from Alan Jackson, one of Read's defense attorneys, and Hank Brennan, the special prosecutor.
Jackson and Brennan were in agreement on the amended verdict slip. Brennan asked for a specific time to be given to the jury on the OUI charge, but Cannone said she wasn't comfortable doing so since it wasn't included in Read's indictment.
After the jury departed, Cannone told lawyers to return to the courtroom at 1:30 p.m.
Read, 45, is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident causing injury or death.
She is accused of ramming her Lexus SUV into O'Keefe outside the Canton home of another Boston Police officer. Read and her lawyers have said she was framed and O'Keefe was beaten to death inside the home.
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