What is new at the Karen Read murder judgment: motions, questions?

Didham – accused of murderer Karen Lee He will return to Court on Tuesday for the final conference of the trial to resolve outstanding motions before his next trial.

Reading, 45, is accused of killing his boyfriend, Braintree’s native and Boston police officer John O’Kefe, going back with him with his SUV out of a Canton house in January 2022 and letting him die in a snowstorm after a drink night.

The first Read trial in the Norfolk Superior Court He ended in a last judgment on July 1. The jury selection is scheduled to begin on April 1.

The motions in Limine, or motions that sought to exclude specific evidence or arguments, were due to court last week. Prosecutors and defense lawyers have submitted several dozen applications.

For example, the State has presented motions in Limine to exclude any reference to prior misconduct from O’Keefe and witnesses, to prohibit any reference to any pending internal affairs investigation and prevent the read team from using a Guilty defense of third parties.

The defense presented motions in Limine to exclude the previous criminal history of the witnesses, prohibit the district prosecutor of Norfolk Michael Morrissey and the Massachusetts State Police to have contact with jurors and exclude “false and irrelevant” statements of the state soldier Michael Michael Proctor.

Cannone could discuss these motions on Tuesday.

What happened in Karen Read test

The prosecutors called More than 65 witnesses in testimony of the first trial that began on April 29, 2024. The list of defense witnesses was much shorter. Read did not testify in his own defense.

Cannone declared a null trial in the case of July after The jury returned several times by stating that they could not reach a verdict.

Read was accused of second degree murder, involuntary homicide while operating under the influence and abandoned the scene of personal injury and death after O’Kefe’s body was found outside the Canton’s house of a Boston policemate on January 29, 2022, during a snowstorm. Prosecutors say Read was drunk and angry when he struck him deliberately.

But Read defense lawyers say it was framed by O’Kefe’s death.