Karen Read, Boston police
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The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations were set to begin this afternoon at Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts.You can watch live coverage of jury instructions when they begin on CBS News Boston in the video above.
Prosecutors allege Read, 45, drunkenly and intentionally reversed her SUV toward O’Keefe as she dropped him off at an afterparty in Canton early on Jan. 29, 2022. “She was drunk,” special prosecutor Hank Brennan alleged. “She hit him, and she left him to die.”
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
Closing arguments took place Friday in the second murder trial of Karen Read, who is charged with killing her Boston police officer boyfriend in a case that has generated more than three years of heated debate.
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Court TV on MSN‘Bless Your Heart’: Alan Jackson Addresses Karen Read’s SupportersAlan Jackson urged supporters not to yell or interrupt proceedings after delivering closing arguments in Karen Read's murder retrial.
Karen Read's defense lawyer urged jurors to find her not guilty in the murder trial of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, arguing there was no collision with her SUV
Jurors in the high-profile Karen Read trial could begin deliberations as early as Friday as defense attorney Alan Jackson called his final witness on Tuesday.