Karen Read’s civil lawsuit against Mass. State Police investigators and witnesses from her murder trial has been moved to federal court, according to court records.

The case filed in the Bristol County Superior Court is now closed and was transferred to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Nov. 25, records show.

Read, who was acquitted in her high-profile murder trial this summer, sued lead investigator Michael Proctor, who was fired due to his conduct while investigating the death of Read’s boyfriend John O’Keefe . She also sued Proctor’s supervisors at the Massachusetts State Police, and five witnesses who were at the center of her murder trial: Brian Albert, Nicole Albert, Jennifer McCabe, Matthew McCabe and Brian Higgins.

A jury found Read not guilty of mur

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