Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed.

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Taxpayers are on the hook for a hefty security price tag after the monthslong trial that ended with a hung jury.

Courthouse staffing for the first Karen Read trial cost Massachusetts State Police about $258,000, most of that in overtime, according to records shared with NBC10 Boston.

Courthouse security for the first Karen Read case cost more than $200,000 in police overtime, according to records shared with NBC10 Boston Thursday.

Karen Read is seeking the dismissal of two of the three charges against her.

Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV during a snowstorm in Canton in January 2022, but after a mistrial was declared in the...

Karen Read’s attorneys are asking Massachusetts’ highest court to dismiss two of the three charges against her before the retrial in January.

Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case said they’ve filed their response to her appeal to have two counts in her murder case dropped. The ACLU has also weighed in.

Hank Brennan, a new special prosecutor for the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office, signed a filing calling for new testing on the vehicle they allege Karen Read drove into John O’Keefe in 2022.

Prosecutors believe some data from Karen Read’s SUV, which they say fatally struck her boyfriend John O’Keefe in January of 2022, may still be recovered, and they say it could help prove — or disprove — their case ahead of the retrial.