Overview

• Jurors began deliberations on June 13 and have not yet reached a verdict after more than nine hours of discussion.
• The panel submitted three written questions Tuesday about legal definitions, evidence admissibility and verdict form wording.
• Judge Beverly Cannone rejected the defense’s request to simplify the verdict slip, leaving three distinct counts intact.
• Prosecutors allege Read struck Boston Officer John O’Keefe with her SUV in a drunken rage and left him to die, while defense attorneys argue she was framed by a biased investigation led by Michael Proctor.
• Read, free on bail, faces charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene, with up to life in prison at stake or the prospect of another mistrial if jurors remain deadlocked.