Karen Read was back in Massachusetts courtroom Monday for the first time since her criminal trial ended — and her her defense declared that this time she won’t be “on the defensive.”

“We’re going to try to get the truth out there,” said Read’s attorney Alan Jackson said outside the Plymouth County Superior Court. “Like I said, the days of her being on the defensive, those days are over.”

During a status hearing for the wrongful death civil case against Read, her defense indicated they plan to go on the offensive and file claims against 10 additional parties familiar from the criminal trial that they say aided a conspiracy against her.

Read is one of numerous parties already named in the civil suit filed by the family of her former boyfriend John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer she was

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