Judge Cannone expected to oversee Karen Read retrial

DEDHAM − Judge Beverly Cannone will return to the bench for Karen Read’s second trial, which is expected to begin early next year.

Read is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend and Braintree native, John O’Keefe, with his SUV in front of a Canton home in January 2022 after a night of drinking.

Cannone declared a mistrial in July. She scheduled a second trial to begin on January 27, 2025.

The court confirmed this week that Cannone will supervise Read’s second trial.

Karen Read charged with second degree murder

Read was charged with second-degree murder after O’Keefe’s body was found in the driveway outside the Canton home of a fellow Boston police officer on Jan. 29, 2022, during a snowstorm. Prosecutors say Read was drunk and angry when she deliberately hit him.

But Read’s defense attorneys say she was framed in O’Keefe’s death.

Read is also charged with involuntary manslaughter while driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of bodily injury and death.

In the first trial, prosecutors called more than 65 witnesses in testimony that began April 29.

The defense’s witness list was much shorter and included a plow driver who said he saw nothing on the Canton lawn where O’Keefe’s body was found.

Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey announced earlier this month that he had appointed Special Assistant Prosecutor Hank Brennan to lead Read’s retrial.

Cannone ruled that trying to read again was not a double punishment

Cannone ruled in August that Read could be retried on all three counts, including second-degree murder.

Read’s defense attorneys had tried to argue that retrying her on all charges constituted double jeopardy.

But prosecutors argued that the defense had the opportunity to object to the mistrial declaration at the time and did not do so, and that the case did not proceed to a verdict.

Cannone sided with the prosecution.

Karen Read charged with second degree murder

Cannone ruled that trying to read again was not a double punishment

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