Karen Read has filed a new lawsuit against the people she believes “concocted a plan” to frame her for the murder of her then-boyfriend, Boston Police Office John O’Keefe.

Read was acquitted of murder earlier this year in a high-profile case that took two trials to complete after the first one ended in a hung jury and mistrial . Prosecutors had accused Read of drunkenly backing her SUV into O’Keefe after dropping him off at a house party in January 2022. But at the end of the retrial, she was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter, and convicted only on a drunk driving charge.

Read has always maintained her innocence, and her new civil suit — filed in Bristol County, Massachusetts Superior Court earlier this week — centers around a theory she and her defense team have long fl

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