NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (Court TV) — Karen Read is fighting back against the key players in her criminal trial, filing a lawsuit against members of the state police and two families she said conspired to frame her.

Karen Read attends her murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (Libby O’Neill/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Read faced two jury trials on charges she murdered her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, and was acquitted of the most serious charges. After the first trial ended with a mistrial , a second jury cleared her of the murder charge and found her guilty only of operating a vehicle under the influence.

A civil lawsuit filed by O’Keefe’s family against Read for wrongful death adopts the prosecution’s theory that Read,

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