Karen Read trial: Everything you need to know on the case

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Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe was found unresponsive in the front yard of another officer’s suburban home on a snowy morning two years ago. He was pronounced dead shortly after, and his girlfriend, Karen Read, was charged in his murder. Read, 44, has claimed innocence and alleged a far-reaching conspiracy among law enforcement officers to frame her in the killing. Her trial entered its sixth week Monday. The case is not expected to go to the jury until the last week of June.

During the afterparty, the defense team alleged, O’Keefe appeared to have been ambushed, beaten, bitten by a dog — the Alberts had a German shepherd — and left outside. “He was supposedly sprawled on that lawn, just feet from where these people were walking when they left the residence,” defense lawyer David Yannetti said in his opening statement. “Not one of these people saw John O’Keefe.

 

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