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DEDHAM, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — A retrial in the Karen Read murder case is tentatively set to begin this January.
Judge Beverly Cannone met with prosecutors and Read's defense at a meeting at Norfolk Superior Court Monday, three weeks after declaring a mistrial because of a hung jury.
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Cannone set a tentative trial date for Jan. 27, 2025.
The retrial would start almost three years to the day since Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found unresponsive in the snow outside a Canton home on Jan. 29, 2022; he was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Prosecutors charged Read, O'Keefe's girlfriend, with hitting him with her SUV and leaving him to die. Read's defense claimed she was the victim of a cover-up.
During Monday's meeting, Cannone also set an Aug. 9, 2024 date for oral arguments in the defense's motion to dismiss two of the three charges against Read.
According to the defense, several members of the jury came forward and said they had unanimously found Read not guilty of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of personal injury and death.
The jury was only deadlocked about the third charge, manslaughter, the defense says.
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