Karen Read's second murder trial entered its seventh week on Monday with the two sides haggling over what further testimony jurors might hear and the defense failing to persuade the judge to declare a mistrial.

Read, 45, is accused of fatally striking her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, with her car outside of a suburban house party in January 2022 and leaving him to die in the snow. She's charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene.

Her lawyers allege that O’Keefe, 46, was beaten inside the Canton home, which belonged to a fellow officer, and was bitten by a dog and then left outside as part of a conspiracy by the police that included planting evidence against Read.

Read's first trial ended in a mistrial last year and her second has so far follo

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