Karen Read’s defense team appealed the judge’s decision not to delay the start of her retrial. That appeal has been denied.<a ...

Jury selection in Read’s retrial will begin April 1 after Judge Beverly Cannone declined to delay despite a pending federal ...

The defense also presented several motions, including a request to bar certain prosecution witnesses from the courtroom ...

Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone ruled this morning that Read’s defense team had not been entirely open and ...

Read is accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die after a night ...

The judge overseeing Karen Read's case is pressing ahead with plans to start her second trial, with jury selection planned for April 1. Judge Beverly Cannone made that decision promptly at the start ...

Judge Beverly Cannone has denied Karen Read’s request to add another attorney to her defense team ahead of the start of her second murder trial. Cannone ruled in a Friday filing in Dedham’s ...

Judge Beverly Cannone ruled Thursday that Read’s retrial will begin April 1 with jury selection, but she will not swear the jury in immediately, so she has some flexibility in case the defense ...

Read's first trial, where she was accused of killing O'Keefe with her SUV in front of a Canton home in January 2022, began April 2024. But Cannone declared a mistrial in July after jurors said they ...

Read, 45, is charged in the January 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors allege she was driving drunk following a night of bar-hopping and deliberately backed ...

DEDHAM, Mass. — Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone admonished Karen Read’s legal team on Tuesday for “repeated misrepresentations” in front of the court, two weeks before the Mansfield woman ...