Karen Read found not guilty of murder in Boston officer’s death

By Michael Casey and Patrick Whittle
Associated Press

DEDHAM, Mass. — A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend but guilty of a lesser charge of drunken driving.

The jury handed down its decision after deliberating for at least 22 hours since June 13.

The verdict in the polarizing and highly watched case comes nearly a year after a separate jury deadlocked over Read’s involvement in the January 2022 death of John O’Keefe and resulted in a judge declaring a mistrial.

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It’s a huge victory for Read’s lawyers, who have long asserted she was framed by police after dropping O’Keefe…