Karen Read may have been acquitted in June, but her legal troubles are not yet over.
Read, 45, returns to court Monday for a hearing on the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. The hearing is a status conference and will address a motion filed by Read’s lawyers in August to dismiss parts of the case.“
Plymouth Superior Court Judge Daniel O’Shea, who was specially assigned to preside over the case, set the hearing for 2 p.m. in Plymouth Superior Court — more than 40 miles from the Dedham courthouse where Read was tried twice in two years.
Here’s everything we know about the lawsuit so far.
The O’Keefe family’s claims
The wrongful death lawsuit against Read, which lists O’Keefe’s parents, brother and niece as plaintiffs, rep