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Defense rests in trial of Karen Read, accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with SUV

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By MICHAEL CASEY
Associated Press

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The defense has rested its case in the murder trial of a Massachusetts woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowbank. Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Officer John O’Keefe, who was found unresponsive outside a fellow officer’s home in Canton in January 2022. An autopsy found O’Keefe died of hypothermia and blunt force trauma. Defense attorneys have argued that she was framed by police. They called their final witnesses on Monday. Read herself did not take the stand.

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