Overview

• Karen Read faces charges of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death in her second trial after a hung jury last July.
• During closing arguments, prosecutors said Read hit her boyfriend, Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and drove away as he lay dying in the snow outside a Canton home.
• The defense countered that Read never collided with O’Keefe and argued he was beaten and bitten by a dog before evidence was allegedly planted to implicate her.
• The trial omitted testimony from lead investigator Michael Proctor after he was fired for sending sexist and crude texts about Read, deepening doubts over the investigation’s integrity.
• Jurors began deliberations Friday at Norfolk County Superior Court and are expected to deliver a verdict in the coming days.