Prosecutors have revealed plans to bring charges against Karen Read after mistrial declared in a murder trial

Read was found guilty of second-degree murder and other charges related to the death of John O’Keefe. He was her boyfriend. police officer. The lawyers for Read asserted that she was victimized in the case by police officers who weren’t her.

The judge declared the mistrial on Monday after jurors informed the judge that they were in an impasse in the trial for murder of Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman whom the murder trial is still pending. her boyfriend is an officer with the police, was arrested in 2022.

This verdict was made public five days following the beginning of liberation five days after the start of liberation. It was announced following an eight-week court trial in the federal courthouse outside of Boston where Read’s attorneys explained the murder of John O’Keefe, 46 as a plot to conceal the crimes committed by law enforcement officers.

Prosecutors said they believed that Read 44 Read O’Keefe and Read had a strained relationship that culminated with the financial analyst aiding her in converting her Lexus SUV into her boyfriend’s vehicle, and taking his body on the 29th day of January. 29th 2022.

Read is accused of 2nd degree manslaughter, murder, in an automobile while intoxicated and fleeing the scene an accident which resulted in the death.

In a memo posted on Monday after lunch Norfolk County Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone, the jury foreman wrote that despite their efforts the jury of six jurors as well as six women was still in an impasse. A few considered that the evidence did not meet the necessary proof needed to prove guilty, as per the document and some concluded that the prosecutor were not able to prove their case.

In a previous note in the previous note, jurors advised the judge that “Despite our commitment to the work entrusted us, we are disjointed by fundamental disagreements about our beliefs and states of mind. “

In the wake of the mistrial’s decision, Cannone set a status hearing on the case to take place the end of this month.

In an announcement, the department of district attorneys expressed gratitude to the O’Keefe family and announced that the prosecutor’s office plans to investigate the case again.

Outside of the courthouse, the lawyer from Read, Alan Jackson, informed reporters that prosecution relied on suspect investigators and that the investigation was shady.

“We will not be able to end the fight,” he said.

O’Keefe’s corpse was found to not be breathing during the morning The doctor then declared his death. Medical examiners have attributed the reason for his death to a head injury the head, as well as hypothermia.

The attorneys of Read claim that the victim was deceived by officerswho attempted to conceal the beating that they claim O’Keefe received during a celebration in the house in which the corpse of the victim’s body was discovered.

The defense argued that the main investigator in that incident Massachusetts State trooper Michael Proctor, manipulated evidence, failed to properly look into the murder of O’Keefe, and followed up with a series of profane and snide messages concerning Read to friends, relatives and even to supervisors.

in his final argument Tuesday Norfolk County A.D. Adam Lally acknowledged that Proctor’s claims were “indefensible” however, he claimed there was no effect to the integrity of the inquiry.

In a statement issued on Monday night, Massachusetts State Police confirmed that Proctor was “relieved of his duties. “

“Upon receiving the outcome of today’s vote, the department took immediate action to relieve trooper Michael Proctor of duty and officially transfer his duties in the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office State Police Detective’s Unit,” Colonel John E. Mawn, Jr. declared in a statement.

The department has previously started investigations within the department to investigate Proctor’s allegations of serious conduct, which is ongoing.

Lally discredited the defense’s claim of the cover-up and called the claim “rampant theories. “

Read repeatedly alerted first responders of the incident that O’Keefe-Lally’s words that she had struck her, and the car’s data revealed that she reversed her car for 62 feet, at the speed of 24 mph, in the vicinity of the home of an officer who was not the same Brian Albert, after midnight on Jan. 29.

Lally said the proof she discovered was physical, and she backed her assertion that she hit his vehicle, including an alleged taillight was damaged in the crash. She also claimed to be hairless and DNA from O’Keefe’s was found on the outside of her vehicle.

Lally said that no one in the party remembered O’Keefe’s presence at Albert’s house.

Attorney for the defense Alan Jackson said the taillight was damaged when Read dropped off O’Keefe at Albert’s house, returned and fell asleep in a state of panic hours later, after which she realized that her boyfriend had not returned.

The defense presented a security footage from the O’Keefe’s home, that shows Read taking her vehicle to her boyfriend’s car while she drove away to locate his vehicle. The data from O’Keefe’s iPhone showed that the phone had been walking for a long time at the time investigators believed the victim was hit, Jackson said, suggesting that the steps could be towards his basement home.

The lawyers from Read could present an argument from a third party, which provided an explanation for the death of O’Keefe that did not match the theory of the prosecution — and suggested an agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who exchanging flirtatious texts with Read as possible suspects in the O’Keefe’s death.

Jackson claimed that his agent, Brian Higgins, became angry after learning that Read did not pay attention to a restaurant prior to the celebration at the residence that was owned by Albert. In Albert’s home Jackson claimed that there could be a dispute between Higgins and O’Keefe over Read that could have ended in O’Keefe falling to the ground and crashing into the head of his victim.

Higgins declared that he didn’t meet O’Keefe at Albert’s house and was not upset that he was not heard from Read.

According to the the Associated Press, a engineer working in forensics who studied the methods of law enforcement officers in cases for the Department of Justice testified that O’Keefe’s injuries could have been more severe if he’d been struck by a vehicle moving at greater than 20 miles per hour.

“We do not have enough evidence to know the exact cause of the incident that caused the damages,” said the expert, Andrew Rentschler, according to the AP.

Patrick Smith