A Massachusetts woman has asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss the charges against her after a murder trial in the death of her police officer boyfriend ended in a mistrial amid allegations of a corruption cover-up involving her co-workers. We are calling for the department to be withdrawn.
Karen Reed, a 44-year-old former financial professional, was a 46-year-old Boston police officer who was found dead in the yard of another Boston police officer's home in Canton the morning after January's nor'easter. She dated John O'Keeffe. 2022.
The criminal case against her ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked after 26 hours of deliberations, but prosecutors now plan to retry her early next year.
Prosecutors allege she hit the man with her SUV during a drunken fight and then drove off, leaving him injured but alive before freezing to death.
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Karen Reed, right, is questioned by defense attorney Alan Jackson by Canton Police Sergeant Michael Rank after the jury has been dismissed for the day. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
She appeared in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday to face three charges in the first instance based on the constitutionally prohibited double jeopardy because the jury was deadlocked on only the third count. They argued that two of them should be withdrawn.
“Today's appeal addresses the core issue of double jeopardy protection, which protects the defendant, in this case Ms. Reed, from the risk of being re-indicted for the very same offenses for which the previous juror was dismissed.” said Reed's attorney Martin Weinberg. It was convened by a panel of judges from the state Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press.
Officer John O'Keefe takes the official mug shot. O'Keefe's girlfriend, Karen Reed, was charged with murder after his body was found outside his Massachusetts home in January 2022. (Boston Police Department)
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Weinberg said he believed Reed was not guilty of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident, although the manslaughter charge stalled after multiple jurors came forward after a mistrial. Ta.
But they didn't tell the judge that.
He asked that a jury be convened to testify on the matter. The committee did not announce a decision Wednesday.
Hundreds of Karen Reed supporters gather in front of Norfolk County Superior Court before her court appearance. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
Ms. Reed claims she dropped Ms. O'Keefe off at the home of Boston police officer Brian Albert on a snowy night and returned home after spending the night on the town with friends.
Early the next morning, realizing he was not coming back, she went with her friends to look for him. They found his body in the snow on Albert's lawn.
Karen Reed's defense attorney holds up a poster board with information exonerating his client of John O'Keefe's murder. (John Turmacchi/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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Reed claims she was framed by the real perpetrators, who she believes were other members of law enforcement who attacked O'Keefe inside Albert's home and threw her outside in the storm. . None of these officers have been charged with a crime.
Karen Reid has arrived at Norfolk High Court for a hearing to have the murder charges against her dismissed. (John Turmacchi/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The coroner found O'Keefe died of blunt force trauma to the head and hypothermia.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
