Karen Read Acquitted of Murder

Karen Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O Keefe. The jury, after 22 hours of deliberation, found her guilty of a lesser charge of drunken driving. This verdict follows a mistrial in the first attempt to convict Karen Read. Her defense team asserted she was framed by the United States — Boston Police Department, while prosecutors argued Karen Read struck John O Keefe with her SUV and left him to die. Witnesses Jennifer McCabe and Brian Albert, who were present the night of John O Keefe's death, issued a statement calling the verdict a 'devastating miscarriage of justice'. Karen Read will face a year of probation for the drunken driving conviction.