(LIVE WATCH With ATTORNEYS): The Karen Read Trial (Day 1:Morning)

WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
During a long and widely watched trial last year, Karen Read was prosecuted for murder in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

The trial, which included allegations of police misconduct and of a wide-ranging conspiracy among law enforcement officers to frame Read in the killing, ended in a hung jury.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
Jury selection in Read’s retrial on charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a collision causing death is set to begin Tuesday in a courtroom outside Boston.

BACKGROUND:
O’Keefe, 46, had been a police officer for 16 years. He was found unresponsive on a snowy January morning outside the suburban home of Brian Albert, a now-retired Boston police sergeant.

O’Keefe was pronounced dead shortly after, and the medical examiner attributed the cause to blunt force trauma to the head and hypothermia. Read, then an equity analyst who had been dating O’Keefe for two years, was arrested in connection with his death days later.

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