Read, 44, is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, by drunkenly and intentionally hitting him with her Lexus SUV after dropping him off at an after-hours meeting at a fellow police officer’s home. Boston in Canton in January. 2022. The couple had been drinking heavily and their relationship was in trouble, prosecutors said.

Read, Mansfield financial analysthas maintained that she is being framed as part of a wide-ranging law enforcement conspiracy. She and her attorneys have said he left after dropping off O’Keefe, and allege that people inside the home beat him (and possibly bit him by a dog) before throwing him into the front yard to die.

Read found O’Keefe’s body in the snow several hours later.

The case, with its conflicting narratives surrounding the death of a police officer and allegations of government corruption, has drawn national attention. For months, pink-clad supporters attended Read’s court hearings.

In July, the jury told Judge Beverly Cannone they were hopelessly deadlocked and she declared a mistrial. But in the weeks that followed, several jurors contacted both the prosecution and defense to tell them that they had agreed that Read was not guilty of murder and leaving the scene, and only remained divided on the manslaughter charge for operating under the influence of alcohol.

Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey has promised to try Read again for all three reasons. A second trial is scheduled for January, although both sides They are trying to delay it until April.

Read’s lawyers say so would violate Read’s rights against double jeopardy be tried again for murder and leaving the scene. They filed a motion for Cannone to dismiss those charges or, alternatively, for Cannone to bring the jurors back to ask them for more information about what happened. Cannone denied the motion, agreeing with the district attorney’s office that since the jury had not presented the verdicts, there was no official decision.

read, who He says he has spent more than 5 million dollars In his defense, he appealed, leading to Wednesday’s hearing before the Supreme Judicial Court.

There is little case law on this situation, legal experts have said.

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