Karen Read’s defense team has called on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against Read in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

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Karen Read’s defense team is calling on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against her in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton in January 2022.

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Karen Read’s defense team has called on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against Read in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

A one-time girlfriend of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe shared her thoughts on the case against Karen Read in an interview with NBC’s Dateline. Lindsay Higgins says she dated O’Keefe for about six months. “He was just such a gentleman, you know, walked me home,” she told Dateline. “Just really, really kind.” She first learned of his death while...

Lindsay Higgins, who dated John O’Keefe for about six months, told NBC’s Dateline she thinks Karen Read is innocent.

The court is also seeking unaired footage from a William Read interview with a local TV station.

Dateline covered the Karen Read case in a two-hour special as we approach the three year anniversary of John O’Keefe’s death.

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.

Karen Read is seeking to delay a wrongful death lawsuit until her criminal trial in connection with the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend is done. The lawsuit filed last month by the family of John O’Keefe blames his death on Read, and also on what the lawsuit describes as negligence by bars that continued to serve drinks to...