Jury selection for 2nd trial of Karen Read
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By about 1:30 p.m., only one juror had been seated and Cannone excused dozens of others for the day, acknowledging the sluggish pace of individual screening.
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Jury selection is underway in the retrial of Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was accused of murder in the death of her boyfriend, a veteran Boston police officer.
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The town of Canton released the findings of an audit into its police force as Karen Read's second trial begins.
Karen Read's second trial is set to begin on Tuesday, after her first trial ended in a mistrial with the jury unable to reach a verdict.
Jury selection has begun in the retrial of Karen Read, less than a year after a judge declared a mistrial on charges that she was responsible for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.
When we asked readers which witnesses they are most anticipating for the Karen Read retrial. See their top three picks.
Read is accused of hitting her boyfriend John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, with her car and leaving him to die in a January 2022 snowstorm. Just as she did in her first trial, Read has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence, and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death.
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Selecting an unbiased jury in a criminal case is always a tricky process. But that task will be particularly difficult Tuesday in the second murder trial of Karen Read.
After hours of thorough questioning on Tuesday, one juror has been seated for the second Karen Read trial, and 17 have been called to be questioned by the judge and lawyers for both sides.
The 200-page report pointed out several concerns in how the department handled evidence and interviewed witnesses in the 2022 killing of Boston police officer John O’Keefe outside a Canton home.
From Karen Read herself to the investigators to the experts, these people will be critical to Read's second trial.