Full jurors and waitlists were selected in the second murder trial Karen Reada former financial adviser is accused of killing her Boston police boyfriend John O’Keefe after a fight in January 2022 snowstorm.
All 12 jurors and six candidates were authorized Tuesday to clear the way for the opening speech. Since the end of Friday, the case requires only two other jurors, 16 of which were selected.
Read, 45 years old, charged Second-degree murdermanslaughter, left the scene of the fatal accident.
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Karen Read and attorney Alan Jackson held a jury questionnaire at Norfolk Superior Court Wednesday, April 9, 2025 in Didem, Massachusetts. (Greg Dell/Patriot Ledger, via AP, swimming pool)
O’Keefe died at the age of 46. Read was one of a group of people who found him on the front lawn of another official at about 6 a.m. on January 29, 2022.
A group of people drinking at Brian Albert’s home and retired afterwards Boston Police Department, the night before.
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Witnesses testified that O’Keeffe never entered the house, but Red strongly denied the allegations that she killed him.
She pleaded not guilty and argued that he might have been killed inside and moved into the yard where he died of head and hypothermia.
Prosecutor Hank Brennan introduced himself to jury members inside the Norfolk Superior Court on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Karen, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP, swimming pool)
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The first trial last year ended the jury after the defense pointed to the issue of the investigation and the obvious conflict of interest involving the main investigators.
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Officer John O’Keefe poses for his official title. O’Keefe’s girlfriend Karen Reed was found dead outside a Massachusetts house in January 2022 and is currently on trial for the murder. (Boston Police Department)
Michael Proctor, a former state policeman, has since been fired from Massachusetts State Police In a series of lustful text messages, he incorrectly sent information about reading.
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He is expected to return to the witness representative’s second trial.
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If convicted of the highest charge, reading may face life. The trial is expected to take six to eight weeks.
