US EditionKaren Read's lawyers ask U.S. Supreme Court to step in her case
- Karen Read's attorneys petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case.
- Read's team argues a jury had already acquitted her on some charges.
- Her lawyers argue a retrial violates double jeopardy protections after a deadlocked jury.
- The petition quotes the need to resolve constitutional issues left undecided in *Blueford v. Arkansas*.
- The Supreme Court appeal follows lower court denials, as jury selection proceeds for Read's retrial.
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Denver Gazette
Karen Read's lawyers appeal to US Supreme Court ahead of retrial over death of her police boyfriend
Karen Read's lawyers have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in their bid to drop some charges against her and at least 10 jurors have been chosen in her retrial, less than a year after a judge declared…
Karen Read appeals to Supreme Court as jury selection continues for retrial
(AP) — At least 10 jurors have been chosen in the retrial of Karen Read, less than a year after a judge declared a mistrial on charges that she was responsible for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Jury selection began Tuesday. Lawyers are seeking to seat 16 jurors, with four serving as alternates. Read, of Mansfield, is accused of striking her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in …
Probe of town police in Karen Read case finds no sign of 'conspiracy to frame' slain officer's girlfriend
An independent agency found no evidence of a cover-up by the police department in Canton, Massachusetts, in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe.
Jury selection continues in Karen Read's retrial over the death of her Boston police boyfriend
Watch “Canton Confidential” atop this story at 7 p.m. We’re reviewing the first week of the Karen Read retrial — and her longshot appeal to the Supreme Court. Plus: a juror from the first trial dishes on Read’s newest lawyer. Jury selection continued for Karen Read‘s retrial on Friday, but the day ended with the same number of jurors selected. There were 10, after the court lost one who’d been seated and another was added. The process had been g…
Lawyers for Karen Read appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing ‘double jeopardy’
Read and her legal team have already had their argument of double jeopardy rejected by numerous courts so far, and are now appealing to the highest form of judicial court in the country.
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