Overview

• Jurors returned Monday to Norfolk Superior Court after a weekend recess for their first full day of deliberations in the eight-week retrial.
• They must reach a unanimous verdict on second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a fatal crash.
• Read’s defense has filed a motion to simplify the verdict slip following last year’s hung jury, arguing that clearer instructions are needed to prevent confusion.
• Prosecutors cite Read’s vehicle data, broken taillight fragments and a witness who heard her say “I hit him” as evidence she intentionally struck Officer John O’Keefe.
• Defense attorneys allege a law enforcement cover-up, pointing to the firing of lead investigator Michael Proctor over sexist texts as proof of investigative misconduct.