马萨诸塞州陪审团发现凯伦读道在2022年谋杀她的波士顿警官男友的罪名不成立，近一年前她的第一次起诉以无效审判告终。
她在最严重的指控中被判无罪，包括二级谋杀、过失杀人和在导致死亡的事故后离开现场。
陪审团确实认定她在酒后行动有罪。法官立即判她缓刑一年，这是初犯的标准。
当宣读判决时，可以听到法院外的欢呼声，里德的支持者聚集在那里。里德拥抱了她的法律团队，并在判决后哭了。
陪审团于6月13日下午在诺福克郡开始商议，周三下午做出裁决。
检察官指控里德在2022年1月的一个晚上酗酒后，用她的车在警官布莱恩·艾伯特的家外面撞了她的男朋友约翰·奥基夫，然后在一场大暴风雪中让他死在那里。
辩方认为里德的车没有撞到奥基夫，而是说奥基夫被一只狗袭击，并被房子里的其他人殴打，然后被扔在雪地里死去。
里德对指控不认罪，并坚称自己是无辜的。
在离开法院时的简短讲话中，她感谢了“了不起的支持者”在过去近四年中对她的经济和情感支持。
“没有人比约翰·奥基夫更努力地为正义而战，没有人比我和我的团队更努力，”里德补充道。
判决后，几名作证指控里德的证人称重审的结果是“毁灭性的误判”
“今天，我们的心与约翰和整个奥基夫家族在一起。艾伯特和麦凯布家族成员在一份声明中说:“他们遭受了太多苦难，理应从我们的司法系统得到更好的待遇。”。“虽然未来我们可能会有更多的话要说，但今天我们与约翰的家人一起哀悼，并哀悼这一残酷的现实，即这场起诉受到了卡伦·里德、她的辩护团队和一些媒体传播的谎言和阴谋论的影响。”
在审议过程中，陪审团提出了四个问题，包括:“如果我们在两项指控上判无罪，但在一项指控上不能达成一致，是在所有三项指控上还是只有一项指控上陪审团意见不一致?”法官在法庭上告诉律师。
法官告诉陪审团她不能回答他们的问题，告诉律师这是一个“理论问题”
陪审团还询问了Read被指控酒后驾驶的时间框架，Read关于该案件的采访视频剪辑是否被视为证据，以及如果她被判犯有子指控，这是否意味着她在整个指控中有罪。
周三早些时候，法官贝弗利·坎农(Beverly Cannone)在一个不同寻常的时刻告诉法庭，陪审团在午休时表示他们已经达成了裁决，然后更新说他们还没有做出裁决。Cannone密封了判决单，并告诉法庭，还没有判决，“因为，正如我们所知，只有在公开法庭上宣布和记录后，才会有判决。”大约30分钟后，法庭宣读了判决。
里德的第一次审判以失败告终无效审判2024年7月，陪审团无法达成裁决。
据里德的律师称，至少有四名在去年她的第一次审判中任职的陪审员确认，她被判二级谋杀罪名不成立，并留下了人身伤害和死亡的现场。然而，律师说，陪审团无法就第三项过失杀人罪达成一致，当时他在酒后驾驶机动车。
她的律师提出了多次上诉，一直上诉到美国最高法院，声称里德不应该在陪审团显然同意的罪名上重审，称这将构成双重危险。每一次上诉都被驳回。
里德的律师在她的第二次刑事审判中两次提出无效审判的动议，两次都被法官驳回。
像她的第一次审判一样，里德没有出庭为自己辩护。
“我不会作证，”里德6月10日在法院外对记者说。“[陪审团]听到了我的采访片段。他们听到了我的声音。他们听说了很多我的事。”
里德将她第一次审判中的一名候补陪审员加入了她的法律团队，准备重审。候补陪审员维多利亚·乔治是马萨诸塞州的执业民事律师。
Karen Read found not guilty of murder in retrial on police officer boyfriend's death
A Massachusetts jury foundKaren Readnot guilty of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend in 2022, nearly a year after her first prosecution ended in a mistrial.
She was acquitted 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.
Cheers could be heard from outside the courthouse, where supporters of Read have gathered, while the verdict was being read. Read embraced her legal team and cried following the verdict.
The jury began deliberating the afternoon of June 13 in Norfolk County before reaching a verdict Wednesday afternoon.
Prosecutors alleged Read hit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her car outside the Canton home of fellow police officer Brian Albert after a night of heavy drinking in January 2022 and then left him to die there during a major blizzard.
The defense had argued that Read's vehicle did not hit O'Keefe and instead said O'Keefe was attacked by a dog and beaten by other people who were in the house before he was thrown out in the snow to die.
Read pleaded not guilty to the charges and has maintained her innocence.
In brief remarks upon leaving the courthouse, she thanked her "amazing supporters" for their financial and emotional support for the past nearly four years.
"No one has fought harder for justice than John O'Keefe than I have -- than I have and my team," Read added.
Following the verdict, several of the witnesses who testified against Read called the result of the retrial "a devastating miscarriage of justice."
"Today, our hearts are with John and the entire O’Keefe family. They have suffered through so much and deserved better from our justice system," members of the Albert and McCabe families said in a statement. "While we may have more to say in the future, today we mourn with John’s family and lament the cruel reality that this prosecution was infected by lies and conspiracy theories spread by Karen Read, her defense team, and some in the media."
During deliberations, the jury asked four questions, including, "If we find not guilty on two charges but can't agree on one charge, is it a hung jury on all three charges or just one charge?" the judge told attorneys in court.
The judge told the jury she is not able to respond to their question, telling attorneys it was a "theoretical question."
The jury also asked about the time frame for when Read is accused of driving under the influence, whether video clips from Read's interviews about the case are to be considered as evidence and if she is convicted on a sub-charge, if that would mean she is guilty on the overall charge.
In an unusual moment, Judge Beverly Cannone told the courtroom earlier Wednesday that the jury had indicated during the lunch break that they had reached a verdict, then updated that they did not have a verdict. Cannone sealed that verdict slip and informed the court that there was not yet a verdict "because, as we all know, there is no verdict until it is announced and recorded in open court." The verdict was then read in court about 30 minutes later.
Read's first trial ended in amistrialin July 2024 after the jury could not reach a verdict.
At least four jurors who served on her first trial last year have confirmed that she was found not guilty of second-degree murder and leaving a scene of personal injury and death, according to Read's attorneys. However, the jury could not agree on the third charge of manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence, the attorneys said.
Her lawyers filed multiple appeals, all the way to theU.S. Supreme Court, claiming Read should not be retried on the counts the jury apparently agreed on, saying it would amount to double jeopardy. Each appeal was denied.
Read's attorneys made motions for a mistrial twice during her second criminal trial, both of which were denied by the judge.
Like her first trial, Read did not take the stand in her own defense.
"I am not testifying," Read said to reporters outside the courthouse on June 10. "[The jury has] heard my interview clips. They've heard my voice. They've heard a lot of me."
Read had added one of the alternate jurors from her first trial to her legal team for the retrial. Victoria George, the alternate juror, is a licensed civil attorney in Massachusetts.
