Karen Read files lawsuit against Massachusetts State Police, Canton Police after acquittal
Read was acquitted of killing her police officer boyfriend last year.
Karen Read has filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts State Police and the Canton Police Department nearly a year after she was acquitted of killing her police officer boyfriend.
Read was accused of killing her boyfriend John O'Keefe in 2022, to which she pleaded not guilty. Her first trial ended in a hung jury. In her second trial she was found not guilty of the most serious charges, including second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene after an accident resulting in death.
The jury did find her guilty of operating under the influence of liquor. The judge immediately sentenced her to one-year probation, the standard for a first-time offense.
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