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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Thursday rested its case in chief in the retrial of Karen Read, who is accused of striking her off-duty Boston police officer boyfriend with her vehicle and leaving him to die in January 2022.

Prosecutors called nearly 40 witnesses as part of their case, including friends and family of the victim, John O’Keefe; first responders and investigators; and a slew of expert witnesses who analyzed and explained a raft of digital and physical forensic evidence.

Now, Read gets the opportunity to present her case and call her own witnesses, as she aims to convince jurors of enough reasonable doubt that they will finally acquit her in O’Keefe’s death.

Read’s first trial ended in a mistr

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