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Jurors in the Karen Read trial are continuing their deliberations Monday morning for the first full day of deliberations. Here is how to watch the documentary in the meantime.
Defense attorney Alan Jackson began his closing argument Friday by repeating three times: “There was no collision.” He told the jury that Read is an innocent woman victimized by a police cover-up in which law enforcement officers sought to protect their own and obscure the real killer.
Jurors, including six alternates, heard blistering closing arguments from Read's defense who argued that the case "was corrupted from the start," while the government insisted she hit her boyfriend Jo
It took eight weeks and dozens of witnesses, but on Friday, Karen Read's retrial shifted to its most critical phase: jury deliberations.
Jurors in the Karen Read trial will hold their first full day of deliberations Monday after getting the case late Friday.
Jurors begin deliberations in Karen Read's second murder trial after Friday's closing arguments and judicial instructions from Judge Beverly Cannone.
Judge Beverly Cannone reminded jurors of the prosecution's burden of proof and gave detailed instructions to the jury after each side delivered lengthy closing arguments.
The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began at Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. As crowds gathered outside the courthouse,
Karen Read, right, departs with her attorney Alan Jackson as the jury deliberates in her trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Monday, June 16, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Closing arguments took place Friday in the second murder trial of Karen Read, who is charged with killing her Boston police officer boyfriend in a case that has generated more than three years of heated debate.