Karen Read was found not guilty of the most serious charges in her high-profile Massachusetts murder retrial Wednesday. In their fourth day of deliberations, jurors acquitted Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. She was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Read's first trial, which started in April 2024 at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, ended months later in a mistrial due to a "starkly divided" hung jury.

After months of additional pretrial hearings following the mistrial, jury selection in Read's second trial began on April 1, 2025. The jury got the case and began deliberations on June 13, 2025.

Read was accused of hitting O'Keefe with her SUV in 2022 and leaving him to die

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