Karen Read arrives in Massachusetts courtroom amid sea of ​​’cop killer’ chants and supporters fighting to have charges dropped

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with a vehicle in January 2022, was back in court Friday for a hearing discussing her defense team’s motion to dismiss.

Attorney Martin Weinberg argued for Read in court Friday. Attorneys Alan Jackson and David Yannetti had previously argued that two of the three charges against Read, 44, including second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident, should be dismissed after a mistrial in June.

His lawyers told Judge Beverly J. Cannone that jurors would have agreed that Read was not guilty on two of the counts, and that another trial would expose Read to “double jeopardy.”

Prosecutors plan to retry Read in January. Cannone heard arguments from both sides and said she would consider them, but she did not make a decision Friday.

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Read arrived in Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, MassachusettsFriday afternoon, surrounded by dueling spectators: those who cheered her and held signs reading “Free Karen” and “Trapped,” versus those who chanted “Cop Killer” repeatedly as she walked up the courthouse steps.

Jackson and Yannetti argued at the June trial that the accusations against Read that she killed her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, were part of an elaborate conspiracy and frame-up.

After a trial that lasted several weeks and 26 hours of deliberations, the Norfolk County jury deadlocked and Cannone declared a mistrial on July 1.

Prosecutors argued at trial that after a night of drinking on Jan. 28, 2022, an altercation between O’Keefe and Read — a financial analyst — turned deadly when Read allegedly hit O’Keefe with her SUV. Prosecutors further alleged that she left her boyfriend to die outside a Canton home during a snowstorm.

Authorities found his body on the lawn of an influential family with close ties to law enforcement and prosecutors.

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The question remains: Who killed John O’Keefe?

Read’s defense has claimed that the family who owned the house where O’Keefe was found dead in the snow on the morning of January 29, 2022, blamed her for his death as part of an elaborate cover-up.

The case has sparked debate between Boston-area residents who blame Read for O’Keefe’s death and those who believe she is innocent.

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“It became the Karen Read show,” said O’Keefe’s brother, Paul O’Keefe, told CBS Boston in July. “She walks in the middle of a cheering crowd. She goes out in public, takes pictures and signs autographs.

“She just lives her life as if nothing happened,” he said at the time.

The jurors who presided over the June trial were “deeply divided” over “deeply held beliefs,” ultimately deciding that “consensus was unattainable,” according to the judge’s July notes.

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“Despite our commitment to the duty entrusted to us, we find ourselves deeply divided by fundamental differences in our opinions and our state of mind,” the jury wrote in its final note to the judge.

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Chris Eberhart of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.