Overview

• Defense expert Andrew Rentschler testified that the pattern of head and body injuries contradicted a high-speed vehicle impact.
• Prosecutors maintain that Read backed her Lexus SUV into Officer O’Keefe while intoxicated and left him to die outside in a blizzard.
• Read’s defense argues that fellow officers beat O’Keefe and allowed a German Shepherd to attack him before framing her by planting his body.
• The retrial follows a hung jury in 2024 and has featured snowplow-driver accounts and forensic experts offering divergent explanations of O’Keefe’s death.
• Judge Beverly Cannone indicated that jurors could receive the case as soon as Friday after both sides wrap up closing arguments.