Karen Read jury selection enters home stretch with 15 of 16 chosen

Jury enactment for Karen Read's retrial connected execution and different charges successful the decease of her Boston constabulary serviceman boyfriend, John O'Keefe, resumes Thursday with conscionable 1 much spot to fill.

The tribunal requires 12 deliberating jurors and 4 alternates.

At the extremity of the time connected Wednesday, determination were 15 radical chosen, clearing the mode for an expected commencement to opening statements adjacent week.

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Karen Read and lawyer Alan Jackson reappraisal assemblage questionnaires astatine Norfolk Superior Court, April 9, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Read faces charges of second-degree murder, leaving the country of a fatal mishap and manslaughter successful transportation with O'Keefe's decease connected Jan. 29, 2022.

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Prosecutors accidental she backed into him with her Lexus SUV and near him connected the crushed successful a blizzard.

He died of blunt unit trauma to his caput and signs of hypothermia, according to an autopsy.

Read could look beingness successful situation if convicted of the apical charge. She has a abstracted Supreme Court petition pending successful which she is asking the nation's highest tribunal to disregard 2 of the 3 charges, leaving her to look conscionable the manslaughter charge.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson connected Wednesday denied Read's petition to intermission her execution proceedings until aft the Supreme Court considers her petition.

Prosecutor Hank Brennan introduces himself to assemblage members wrong Norfolk Superior Court during the 2nd week of the Karen Read trial, April 8, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Read has pleaded not blameworthy and expressed her innocence some successful and retired of court, sitting for aggregate media interviews and insisting that she did not termination O'Keefe. 

Her defence has raised the anticipation that idiosyncratic other bushed him to decease and near him successful the cold. They person besides questioned the quality of injuries recovered connected his close arm.

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In summation to injuries connected his face, caput and hands, helium had a bid of cuts and puncture wounds connected his arm.

O'Keefe was recovered connected the beforehand tract of different Boston constabulary serviceman who has since retired, Brian Albert. Flaws successful the archetypal probe led to an extracurricular audit of the section constabulary section successful Canton, Massachusetts, wherever Albert lived astatine the time.

Officer John O’Keefe (Boston Police Department)

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Auditors recovered a bid of shortcomings and flaws but nary signs of a coordinated effort to framework Read for the transgression by the Canton Police Department.

The pb investigator, erstwhile Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, mislaid his occupation past period aft an interior reappraisal looked into his behaviour aft the revelation astatine Read's archetypal proceedings that helium sent lewd substance messages with details astir the progressive probe to radical who were not privy to delicate instrumentality enforcement proceedings.

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The proceedings is expected to instrumentality six to 8 weeks erstwhile the afloat assemblage is seated.

Jury enactment began connected April 1.

Fox News' Maria Paronich and Kevin Ward contributed to this report.