Karen Read appeals double jeopardy ruling to US Supreme Court
With jury selection underway for her second murder trial in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, attorneys for Karen Read are appealing a lower court's ruling that she is not facing double jeopardy to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read's first trial ended with a mistrial last year, but her lawyers have argued that the jury agreed unanimously that she was not guilty of two of the three charges, including the most serious of murder, and that keeping those on the books for her second...