Overview

• A Massachusetts jury cleared Karen Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of her partner, Boston police officer John O’Keefe
• Read was convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and received one year of probation under a first-offender program
• The retrial followed a July 2024 mistrial and centered on allegations of police misconduct after lead investigator Michael Proctor was fired for sending lewd texts about Read
• Prosecutors argued Read backed into O’Keefe with her SUV and left him to die in a snowstorm, while the defense maintained she was framed and pointed to alternative injury theories
• O’Keefe’s family decried the verdict as a “devastating miscarriage of justice,” as Read’s supporters celebrated outside the courthouse