Boston – The main court of the State ruled on Tuesday that Karen Read can be judged by the same positions for the death of his official Boston Police boyfriend, the last turn in the case of long data that transferred the true fans of the crime in The whole country.
Prosecutors have tried to try to read this year again for positions of Second degree murder, involuntary homicide and abandonment of the scene of a crime. They accused her of attacking John O’Kefe with her SUV and letting him die in a snowstorm in January 2022. Read lawyers argue that she was framed to protect other agents from the law involved in O’Kefe’s death.
A judge declared a null trial in June after finding jurors could not reach an agreement, without surveying the jurors to confirm their conclusions. Read lawyer Martin Weinberg argued that five jury members later said they were blocked only in the count of honored homicides, and that he unanimously agreed in the jury room that was not guilty for the charges of the charges of the charges of Second degree murder And leaving the scene. But they had not told the judge.
The ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts clears the way for a new trial on the three positions.
“The jury clearly declared during the deliberations that they had not reached a unanimous verdict on any of the charges and could not do it. Only after being discharged, some individual jurors communicated an alleged different result, contradicting their previous notes, “the judges wrote.” Such post -tercial disseminations cannot alter retroactively the result of the trial, either to acquit or condemn. “
The judges also found “without abuse of discretion” in the decision of Judge Beverly Cannone to declare a null trial.
“After the extensive deliberations of several days, the jury presented several increasingly emphatic notes on its inability to reach a unanimous verdict,” they wrote, adding that the record before the judge “suggested a complete dead point.”
Read lawyer said they are considering their legal options.
“While we have great respect for the highest court in Commonwealth, double danger is a federal constitutional right,” Weinberg said in a statement. “We are strongly considering whether to seek federal relief of habeas of what we continue to maintain are violations of Mrs. Read’s. Constitutional rights guaranteed by the federal government.”
Weinberg had urged the court to allow a probative hearing in which the jurors could be asked if they had reached the non -guilty final verdicts about any of the charges.
Prosecutors argued that there is no basis to dismiss the second -degree murder positions and leave the scene. They argued that their lawyers should have felt a null trial was “inevitable or inevitable” and that they had all the opportunities to be heard in the trial room.
The judges questioned Weinberg about the merits for conducting an investigation. The associated judge Frank Gaziano said that such consultations are generally reserved for “strange information” such as “racisms in the jury room.” The president of the President of Justice, Kimberly Budd, asked about the limits of allowing an investigation, which he suggested could open the door for other defendants to argue that a jury came to tell them “that is not really what happened “
Cannone ruled in August that reading could be again In all three positions.
“Where the verdict was not announced in the open court here, the defendant’s new trial does not violate the double danger principle,” said Cannone.
Prosecutors said Read, former attached professor at Bentley College, and O’Keefe, 16 -year -old member of the Boston Police, had been drinking long before he left him at a party at Brian Albert’s house, an official partner from Boston. They said he hit him with his SUV before moving away. A autopsy found O’Keefe had died of hypothermia and strength of forceful force.
The defense portrayed Read as the victim, saying that O’Kefe was killed inside Albert’s house and then dragged outside. They argued that the investigators focused on reading because she was a “convenient strange” that saved them from having to consider the agents of the law as suspects.
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