BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read’s lawyers asked a judge on Monday to dismiss part of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of her former Boston police officer boyfriend, whose killing she was acquitted of earlier this year after two highly publicized trials.

During a hearing before Plymouth County Superior Court Judge Daniel O’Shea, Read’s lawyers argued that John O’Keefe ’s parents, brother, and a niece he was raising after his sister and brother-in-law’s deaths don’t have standing to pursue emotional distress damages because they didn’t witness O’Keefe’s death or see his body until after he had been declared dead at the hospital.

“None of the alleged plaintiffs observed the alleged incident that is described in the complaint,” Read attorney Damon Seligson said. “They were not witness

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