Lawyers for Karen Read on Tuesday filed a formal response to a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of John O’Keefe , her boyfriend who she was acquitted of killing.

In a 16-page filing in Plymouth Superior Court, Read’s attorneys denied the family’s allegations, which track closely with what prosecutors alleged during her criminal trial: that she fatally struck O’Keefe , a Boston police officer, with her SUV outside a Canton home early on Jan. 29, 2022, following a night of bar-hopping.

Her criminal lawyers argued at trial in Norfolk Superior Court that she was framed and that O’Keefe entered the property, owned at the time by a fellow Boston police officer, where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by a German Shepherd before his body was planted on the front l

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