On Wednesday, a Massachusetts judge reprimanded accused killer Karen Read for appearing to make a face during a discussion about key documents, as the jury deliberated.
According to the New York Post, a courtroom video feed captured Read seated behind her defense lawyer, Alan Jackson, who was standing up and addressing Norfolk County Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone, when the judge stopped him and addressed Read.
“Excuse me. This is funny, Ms. Read?”
Read was reportedly seen shaking her head before the judge said, “All right, we’re done.”
Judge slams Karen Read for smirking at her as she awaits her fate in murder trial https://t.co/qE5WaAW8uj pic.twitter.com/XgjI95L0hq
— New York Post (@nypost) June 26, 2024
Meanwhile, deliberation has continued into its second day.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Norfolk County grand jury in Massachusetts indicted Read in 2022 on murder, motor vehicle manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a collision causing death charges. She’s accused of killing her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer.
Read was initially arrested on manslaughter charges after she allegedly hit O’Keefe with her SUV, then left him for dead outside a friend’s residence in Canton. Police said the incident happened after Read had a night out involving drinking.
Read pleaded not guilty to the charges and claimed that she’s been framed. The defense suggested O’Keefe was beaten up inside his friend’s home and bitten by a dog before he left the residence.
The prosecution, however, asserted that Read’s SUV was damaged when she reversed into O’Keefe on Fairview Road. They argued that she left him for dead in a snowbank outside another officer’s home in the early hours of January 29, 2022.
[Karen Read speaks with her lawyer as the jury deliberates in her murder trail, Wednesday June 26, 2024, at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass. Read is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2022 death of her boyfriend Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)]
