Monday, April 7th 2025, 8:11:00 pm
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Karen Read has filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court seeking an immediate stay of her retrial -- which has begun jury selection -- pending review by the high court on her claims of constitutional violation. "Read’s Petition contends that her scheduled retrial on two of the three counts pending against her, including a charge of second-degree murder, will violate the Double Jeopardy Clause because the jury in her first trial reached a final and unanimous, but unannounced, decision that she is not guilty of those charges." Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, in January 2022.