Karen Read is changing the lineup for her civil defense team as she prepares to fight a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of her former boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

In a series of court filings Friday, Melick & Porter attorneys William Keville, Christopher George, and Marissa Palladini withdrew from the Plymouth Superior Court case, offering no further explanation. The docket also showed a series of additions to Read’s defense team with Tang & Maravelis lawyers Michael William Bell, Thomas M. Tang, Sarah Anne Shipley, and Arthur Evan Maravelis.

Earlier this year, Read, 45, was acquitted of killing O’Keefe after prosecutors alleged she drunkenly backed her SUV into her boyfriend while dropping him off at a house party in Canton in January 2022. In the end, the

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