How Karen Read’s multimillion-dollar celebrity legal team over-powered prosecutors and won, twice

How Karen Read’s multimillion-dollar celebrity legal team overpowered prosecutors and won, twice

“It is unbelievable, the insight you get from the jurors after they have sat on…

New York Post

By Priscilla DeGregory

Karen Read’s high-powered, multimillion-dollar defense team helped her overpower prosecutors — twice — to beat back murder charges.

And they had help from a botched investigation and shady behavior from key witnesses and detectives.

Read, 45, of Mansfield, Mass., was cleared Wednesday in the 2022 murder of her then-boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, receiving one year probation after being found guilty on the least serious charge of drunk driving.

Read insisted on her innocence from the beginning and spared no expense in hiring an eclectic group of attorneys — including two high-powered Los Angeles defense lawyers, and an alternate juror who served at her first trial…