The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began.

The jury began deliberations right after closing arguments. The jury returned three days later telling Judge Cannone they were "unable to reach a unanimous verdict." Cannone heard from lawyers for the prosecution and defense and then sent them back to deliberate further given the amount of evidence they had heard.

Jurors, including six alternates, heard blistering closing arguments from Read's defense who argued that the case "was corrupted from the start," while the government insisted she hit her boyfriend Jo

Karen Read proposed that she personally select which of the jurors would serve as alternates in her murder trial — an idea the judge denied.

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Jury deliberations in the Karen Read retrial began Friday after weeks of testimony in the high-profile murder case that centered on the prosecution's theory of a rocky relationship that turned fatal and the defense's claim of a police cover-up.