What to Know Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene She is accused of striking John O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her SUV in 2022 and leaving him to die alone in the snow outside of a house party in Canton, Massachusetts Her defense team has said she is the victim of a vast police conspiracy and that O'Keefe was fatally beaten by another law enforcement officer at the party Testimony continued Monday morning, and was followed by a hearing on two potential defense witnesses Week two of testimony in the Karen Read murder trial took place Monday, but Ian Whiffin, a digital forensics examiner with the firm Cellebrite, was the only witness questioned. Monday was only a half day of testimony; in the second half of the day, Judge Beverly Cannone attempted to resolve an issue pertaining to two crash expert witnesses from the firm ARCCA. That Read is accused of hitting O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her SUV in 2022 and leaving him to die alone in the snow outside of a house party at a home on Fairview Road.

Her defense team has said she was a victim of a vast police conspiracy and that O'Keefe was fatally beaten by another law enforcement officer at the party. A mistrial was declared last year after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. Follow along with live updates from the trial below: