Karen Read jury selection: Dozens in pool already have an opinion on the case

Jury enactment kicked disconnected Tuesday for the 2nd proceedings of Karen Read, who is accused of execution and different charges for an alleged hit-and-run that near her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, dormant successful a blizzard successful January 2022.

The 45-year-old's archetypal proceedings ended with a hung jury, and the justice aboriginal rejected aggregate requests to disregard the case.

This clip around, astir fractional of the archetypal radical of imaginable jurors told the justice they already person an sentiment connected the case.

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Karen Read arrives for assemblage enactment for her proceedings astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Read arrived astatine tribunal astir 8:55 a.m. Tuesday, wearing a grey pantsuit and carrying a h2o bottle. She gave a thumbs-up motion to supporters who greeted her connected the courthouse steps.

Inside, her high-powered ineligible squad is squaring disconnected with a peculiar authoritative who antecedently defended the mobster Whitey Bulger.

Judge Beverly Cannone work the charges to much than 90 radical successful the archetypal radical of imaginable jurors and past kicked disconnected questioning successful a proceeding that was mostly closed to the public.

In the unfastened portion, 76 members of the assemblage excavation raised their hands to admit they had heard of the case. Forty had already formed opinions. Sixteen said they had already had bias oregon prejudice for oregon against either the defence oregon the prosecution.

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Judge Beverly Cannone listens during Karen Read’s motions proceeding astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S. Nov. 26, 2024. (REUTERS/Reba Saldanha)

Two admitted they would person "difficulty" pursuing the judge's instructions connected the load of proof, tenable doubt, and the presumption of innocence for the defendant.

Another 36 told the tribunal that sitting connected the assemblage for weeks would origin them "substantial hardship."

Juror enactment is expected to instrumentality days, and the proceedings itself could tally for six to 8 weeks, Cannone said.

Supporters of Karen Read stitchery during assemblage enactment for the proceedings of Read extracurricular Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Read is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the country of a deadly mishap successful transportation with O'Keefe's decease connected Jan. 29, 2022. He was 46 and recovered successful the snowfall extracurricular different constabulary officer's location hours aft a radical of radical went determination for an after-party to headdress disconnected a nighttime retired drinking.

A nor'easter tore done the portion that night, and an autopsy recovered helium had died from trauma to the caput and hypothermia. However, the aesculapian examiner near the mode of decease "undetermined."

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The Waterfall Bar and Grille astatine 643 Washington St., Canton, Massachusetts connected March 29, 2025, wherever Karen Read, John O’Keefe, Jennifer McCabe and friends spent a nighttime earlier the decease of O’Keefe successful January 2022.  (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

Supporters some for and against Read often gathered extracurricular the courthouse astatine her archetypal proceedings and astatine different hearings.

Cannone told jurors Tuesday that they would spot the afloat grounds successful the case, not the protesters outside, and the destiny of the prosecution's lawsuit rests solely successful their hands. 

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"John Adams said that we are a authorities of laws, not of men, and that the instrumentality indispensable beryllium deaf to the clamoring of the public," she said, referring to the Founding Father with heavy Boston roots. "He meant that portion the nationalist sentiment astir a fixed taxable whitethorn ebb and flow, the instrumentality indispensable beryllium steady, reliable, and even-handed."

ATF Agent Brian Higgins speaks astatine the Karen Read execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court connected Tuesday, May 28, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. (Stuart Cahill/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

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Read has denied the charges, pleaded not blameworthy and claimed that she is being framed arsenic portion of a constabulary cover-up.

Investigators' behaviour successful her archetypal proceedings whitethorn person influenced the jury's inability to scope a consensus.

Read and O'Keefe had been warring connected the greeting of Jan. 28, 2022, according to substance messages revealed successful her archetypal trial.

They went retired drinking successful Canton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and past met a radical of friends and acquaintances astatine different bar, minutes earlier past call.

C.F. McCarthy’s astatine 614 Washington St., Canton, Massachusetts. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital )

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Brian Albert, a Boston bull similar O'Keefe, invited the radical implicit to his location for an after-party. O'Keefe was recovered dormant connected his tract the adjacent day.

Witnesses successful the archetypal proceedings testified that Read and O'Keefe ne'er came inside, and prosecutors allege they got into different combat earlier she fatally deed him successful reverse astatine 24 mph.

Read has countered that idiosyncratic other killed him and near him connected Albert's tract amid the snowstorm.

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Cannone connected Monday ruled that Read's defence cannot effort and blasted Albert's nephew, Colin Albert, for the crime. 

Karen Read and John O'Keefe airs for an undated photograph. (Karen Read)

Other imaginable third-party culprits floated by the defence see Brian Albert himself and ATF Agent Brian Higgins, some of whom were contiguous astatine the barroom and the after-party. 

The justice said that Read's defence cannot sanction them during opening statements – but they tin present grounds during the proceedings that they judge points to them and not her.

Witness Brian Albert testifies during the archetypal proceedings of Karen Read astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, May 10, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

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Cannone besides sided with prosecutors and blocked grounds from a erstwhile FBI cause named Michael Easter, who was expected to scrutinize alleged missteps from constabulary successful the investigation.

The pb investigator, erstwhile Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, was fired past period aft an probe into lewd substance messages helium sent astir Read portion probing O'Keefe's death, which were work successful tribunal during her archetypal trial.

Although helium is nary longer a trooper, his sanction is connected the witnesser database the 2nd clip astir – on with 149 different people.