Karen Read: Jury Selection Starts in Murder Trial of Woman Accused of Killing Vereran Police Officer
Jury selection kicked off Tuesday morning for the retrial of Karen Read, a Massachusetts woman accused of killing her Boston police offficer boyfriend, John O’Keefe. Read’s second murder trial began as Judge Beverly Cannone introduced the case and instructed 92 prospective jurors at Norfolk Superior Court.
Judge Beverly Cannone ruled Karen Read can't name one particular witness as part of a third-party culprit defense during her retrial.
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Read’s retrial begins with jury selection on Tuesday, but when testimony starts, the defense won’t be allowed to call a key witness to the stand.
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Judge Beverly Cannone ruled Monday that Karen Read’s defense team will not be allowed to blame others for John O’Keefe’s death by name during opening statements.
The white hot Karen Read retrial was officially underway in Norfolk Superior Court on Tuesday with the start of jury selection. The Read trial has been anything but quiet since Judge Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial last summer.
The retired agent would have testified that the police investigation into John O'Keefe's death "was not reliable," the judge wrote.
Karen Read’s latest effort to have her murder case tossed, this one for allegedly “extraordinary governmental misconduct,” was denied.