CANTON, Mass. —

Karen Read's civil suit against several witnesses who testified against her in the John O'Keefe murder trial will be moved from Bristol County Superior Court to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

In a court filing on Tuesday, Brian Albert, Nicole Albert, Jennifer McCabe, Matthew McCabe and Brian Higgins claimed Read's civil case "is a vengeful abuse of the judicial process" and that it's an "ongoing and malicious attempt to evade responsibility for the death of John O'Keefe."

The Alberts, McCabes, and Higgins asked to move court venues and pointed specifically to Read's claim that her Fourth Amendment rights were violated during the investigation into O'Keefe's death. The Fourth Amendment protects people against unreasonable searches and

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