Unpacking the second trial and verdict that cleared Karen Read of murder
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WHDH, WFXT, CNN By Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The case that captured the attention of people across the country has finally come to a conclusion: Karen Read was acquitted of the 2022 death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe.
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DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police
A Norfolk County jury found Karen Read not guilty of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe in a dramatic courtroom verdict, Wednesday.
Karen Read was acquitted in the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe on Wednesday, vindicating a defendant who had claimed to have been the victim of a sweeping cover-up.
The verdict in the polarizing and highly watched case comes nearly a year after a mistrial over Read's involvement in the January 2022 death of John O'Keefe.
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly striking her off-duty police officer boyfriend and leaving him to die in January 2022, was acquitted of the most serious charge of second-degree murder. She was found guilty on a charge of drunk driving.
A Massachusetts jury on Wednesday found Karen Read not guilty of murdering her boyfriend, a Boston police officer, in 2022, almost one year after another trial ended in a hung jury.
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Karen Read walked out of court a free woman after more than three years and two trials over the death of her boyfriend, Boston police
Karen Read could be convicted of just drunk driving as jurors apparently remain at odds over one count and received a new easier-to-follow verdict slip from the judge Tuesday.
Read was accused of hitting her boyfriend with her car and leaving him to die in a snowstorm, but alleged she was the victim of a cover-up by his fellow officers. Her 2024 trial ended in a hung jury.
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly striking her off-duty police officer boyfriend and leaving him to die in January 2022, was found guilty of drunk driving today — though she was acquitted of the most serious charge of second-degree murder.
DEDHAM, Mass. >> A jury cleared Karen Read of all but the least serious offense — drunken driving — following a lengthy trial for the murder of Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, her boyfriend.
WHDH, WFXT, CNN By Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The case that captured the attention of people across the country has finally come to a conclusion: Karen Read was acquitted of the 2022 death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe.
Karen Read was cleared of murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday, as a huge crowd of her supporters roared with applause outside of the courthouse in Dedham, Massachusetts. The jury found her guilty only of operating under the influence of alcohol (OUI).
Karen Read’s second murder trial was a rematch for the lawyers after the first ended in a hung jury last year. CNN correspondent Jean Casarez answers key questions about the case after Read was acquitted of murder Wednesday.
