Judge Beverly Cannone has denied Karen Read's motion to dismiss the entire case against her, setting the stage for her second high-profile trial to get underway with jury selection next week in Massachusetts.
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The motion to dismiss for “extraordinary governmental misconduct” accused prosecutors of withholding critical evidence from Read’s defense team. Many of the claims from her lawyers centered on surveillance videos from the Canton Police station on the day Read’s car was towed there.
The judge overseeing Karen Read's case dealt a blow to her defense Monday, one day before the start of her second trial.
Just one week before her retrial is set to start, a judge denied a motion filed by Karen Read’s lawyers to dismiss the case entirely on the basis of “extraordinary government misconduct.”
Karen Read is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case as her second murder trial in the death of her boyfriend begins.
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Read is accused of hitting John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer, with her Lexus SUV in Canton and leaving him to die.
Dozens of potential jurors told a Massachusetts judge they already had opinions on the Karen Read-John O'Keefe murder case before arriving in court Tuesday.
Karen Read’s latest effort to have her murder case tossed, this one for allegedly “extraordinary governmental misconduct,” was denied.