Just as they did Friday, jurors Monday told the judge that they remained deadlocked and at an impasse. The judge, just as she did Friday, instructed the jury to keep deliberating and invoked the “Tuey-Rodriguez instruction,” essentially a final push to the jury.
If the jury is still hung after that, the judge could declare a mistrial.
In the event of a mistrial, the prosecution could retry Read in the future. When a retrial could occur remains unknown, but experts told CBS News that it could be several months or even more than a year before a retrial against Read.
Read charged in O’Keefe’s death
This photo undated photo released by the Boston Police Department shows officer John O’Keefe. (Boston Police Department via AP)
Karen Read watches as jurors are seated in court to continue with deliberations at the trial of Read at Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Flags, flowers and remembrances flank the headstone of John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, at Blue Hill Cemetery, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Braintree, Mass. A jury is deliberating the fate of O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Read, who is charged with second-degree murder in O’Keefe’s death. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Defense attorney David Yannetti, standing, addresses the court as Karen Read, at left, listens after jurors stated they could not reach a unanimous verdict during Read’s trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, was charged with second-degree murder after being accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Judge Beverly Cannone addresses the jury before deliberations continue in the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Karen Read stands as jurors depart the court to continue with deliberations at the trial of Read at Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Karen Read, left, arrives with her defense team, including Elizabeth Little at right, at Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. A jury is deliberating Read’s fate, as her trial is nearing its end. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Karen Read listens as judge Beverly Cannone reads a note from jurors, which stated they could not reach a unanimous verdict, during Read’s trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, was charged with second-degree murder after being accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
O’Keefe, a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, was found unresponsive in a snowbank outside of a fellow officer’s home in Canton, Massachusetts in January 2022. He was rushed to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Prosecutors claim Read hit him with her SUV outside of the home during a snowstorm after a night of drinking. The couple was going to the other officer’s house to hang out with friends, but witnesses testified that neither made it there.
Defense attorneys, though, say Read is the innocent victim of a police cover-up. O’Keefe, Read’s lawyers say, was killed during a fight at the house and dumped on the front lawn.
If Read is convicted, she could face life in prison with the possibility of parole.
A community divided
Supporters of Karen Read gather near Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. A jury is deliberating Read’s fate, as her trial is nearing its end. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
A half-dozen people supporting the O’Keefe family heckled Karen Read supporters and called for her conviction in her murder trial, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, was charged with second-degree murder after being accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photos/Michael Casey)
Supporters of Karen Read gather near Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. A jury is deliberating Read’s fate, as her trial is nearing its end. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
A half-dozen people supporting the O’Keefe family heckled Karen Read supporters and called for her conviction in her murder trial, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, was charged with second-degree murder after being accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photos/Michael Casey)
A half-dozen people supporting the O’Keefe family heckled Karen Read supporters and called for her conviction in her murder trial, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, was charged with second-degree murder after being accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor’easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photos/Michael Casey)
Supporters of Karen Read display signs near Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read is on trial, accused of killing her boyfriend Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in 2022. The jury began deliberations in the trial Tuesday. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)
Supporters of Karen Read listen to proceedings from Read’s trial from a laptop computer while gathered a block away from Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Karen Read is on trial accused of killing her boyfriend Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, in 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Dedham, MA – April 29: A Karen Read supporter who did not wish to give her name held a sign as she and other supporters stood a short distance down the road from Norfolk Superior Court. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Dedham, MA – April 29: Karen Read supporters reacted to an attorney’s statement as they gathered around a phone plugged into a speaker and listened to opening arguments in her trial as they stood a short distance down the road from Norfolk Superior Court. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Dedham, MA – April 29: Karen Read supporters held signs as they stood a short distance down the road from Norfolk Superior Court where her trial was taking place. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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What first might have seemed to be an open-and-shut case has drawn outsized attention, fueled by true-crime fanatics, conspiracy theorists and Read’s pink-shirted supporters.
The case has divided the Canton community — the Boston suburb where O’Keefe was raising his niece and nephew after their parents’ deaths and where many of the witnesses and even investigators know one another.
Several Read supporters gathered outside the courthouse during the eight-week trial. On Friday, about 100 of them were waiting as the jury deliberated.
