The state Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to review a North Andover police officer’s appeal of an order that landed her in jail, as she awaits trial in connection to a confrontation last summer when she was shot by a colleague .
Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon for the June 30 shooting at her North Andover home, was released from custody in September after spending several weeks in the hospital and in jail.
She returned to jail just days later, when Essex Superior Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman vacated her release after her attorney raised concerns about an alcohol monitoring condition. A single justice of the state’s highest court upheld that ruling last month.
On Tuesday, the full court said it will cons

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