Massachusetts woman charged with murder of her boyfriend Boston police officer in a snow collision lost the appeal of the Supreme Court in Massachusetts asking her case to be thrown on the basis of double danger after a trial of chaotic murder ended up in a hanged jury.
Karen Read, 45, is expected to go to the trial for the second time, as previously scheduled in April on a second -degree killing charges and left a deadly accident.
Policeman in Boston John O’Keefe died from a dull trauma to the head and hypothermia during January snowstorms in Kanton, Massachusetts, about 15 miles beyond Beantown. Prosecutors say he read it hit him with his SUV and fled the scene after a drunken fight. She claimed it was a complex concealment and that she left before he sustained injuries. The jurors could not reach an agreement on which side to believe.
After the lower court rejected her proposal to reject after the injury, she appealed to the highest court of the state, which on Tuesday handed over to the decision by rejecting its argument that the jurors only frozen in one of three allegations. She wanted the remaining two thrown out.
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Karen Read goes to Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Friday, August 9, 2024. Read, who was charged with killing his boyfriend’s police officer in January 2022, returning to the court by discussing the proposal of his defense team in court. (Patriot Picture/Backgride for Fox News Digital)
“During the debate, the jury made it clear that they had not reached a unanimous verdict on any of the accusations and that they could not do so,” the Supreme Court’s justice Massachusetts wrote Serge Georges Jr. In the court’s decision on 35 pages.
The jurors told the judge in a series of notes that they were “deeply divided” because of the read guilt for Murder and other charges And they couldn’t reach an agreement.
“Only after the release, some individual jurors communicated a different alleged outcome, contrary to their previous notes,” Georges wrote.
Because the jurors broke their silence only after the trial, it was too late, the court ruled.
“Such post -three discovery cannot retroactively change the outcome of the trial – whether to liberate or condemn,” Georges wrote. “Accordingly, we confirm the rejection of the proposal for the rejection and request of the defendant for the post -trilling investigation of the jurors.”
Policeman in Boston John O’Keefe poses for his official portrait. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, will have a second trial of murder after the first ended with a jury hanged after his death in January 2022. (Police Directorate in Boston)
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The new trial for Reat is expected to lead a special prosecutor assistant, Hank Brennan, who once represented the James “Whitey” mobster Bulger and has already started trying to get unpublished records from journalists Massachusetts who interviewed Read.
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“I don’t see how it will fly, because it was injuries, it wasn’t found guilty or not guilty,” said Paul Mauro, former Inspector and lawyer NYPD. “Double danger is applied when you have a verdict. It’s in the Constitution.”
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“This is a solved law,” he added. “This is not a double danger, I agree with the court. Let’s go to a new trial and solve this.”
The new trial should start on April 1.
He also faces the wrong law of death from O’Keefe’s family.
Read, in the recent interview circle, it claimed that she was framed by a real killer, which she believes to be other members the implementation of the law O’Keefe was arguing after she dropped him at the home of a police officer from Boston Brian Albert. O’Keefe was found dead in the snow on Albert’s front lawn.
Karen read that her legal team meets in the side lawyer during Reid’s trial at Norfolk Superior Court, on Friday, June 14, 2024, in Dedham, Massachusetts, read, 44, was accused of running on his boyfriend of a police officer in Boston With his SUV into the middle of Nor’easter and left him after the dead after a night of drinking. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, pool)
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The testimony of state soldier Massachusetts, Michael Proctor, one of the key investigators, seriously injured prosecutors in court.
The jurors were seen shaking their heads in court as he read a team of defense team read some of his text messages.
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In them he called “Wack Job”, “Honey … without a …” and “C —“. He wrote that he wanted to kill himself and was joking to ask for naked selfies while looking for her phone.
