Overview

• The 12-member jury has deliberated for four days since June 13 without reaching a verdict and has submitted four procedural questions to Judge Beverly Cannone
• One key query asked whether a non-unanimous vote on two charges alongside a deadlock on a third would prompt a mistrial on the unresolved count and allow the government to retry it
• Prosecutors allege Read drove her SUV into Boston officer John O’Keefe on Jan. 29, 2022, after a night of drinking, while her defense argues she was framed and that O’Keefe was beaten and possibly mauled by a German Shepherd
• Read, 45, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death and remains free on bail
• Hundreds of supporters wearing pink have gathered outside Norfolk Superior Court and Read also faces a separate wrongful death lawsuit filed by O’Keefe’s family