DEDHAM, Mass. — Karen Read’s retrial has been canceled for Tuesday due to ‘unavoidable circumstances’.
The court didn’t give details as to why the testimony will be delayed.
A source tells Boston 25’s Ted Daniel that the trial was canceled due to an illness.
I’ve been told testimony in the Karen Read trial was cancelled today due to an illness.
— Ted Daniel (@TedDanielnews) May 13, 2025
Read, 45, of Mansfield, is accused of striking John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her SUV and leaving him to die alone in a blizzard outside of a house party at the home of fellow officer Brian Albert following a night of drinking.
We just got an email from the court system that says court is canceled today in Karen Read’s re-trial for “unavoidable circumstances”.
— Ted Daniel (@TedDanielnews) May 13, 2025
Will try to learn what those circumstances are.
On Monday, jurors once again saw Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik on the stand all day.
Court went later than usual so they could finish questioning him and not bring him back for a fourth day.
Much of the focus was on Read’s Lexus SUV.
Bukhenik says Karen’s right rear taillight was shattered when he and former state trooper Michael Proctor had her Lexus towed to the Canton Police Station.
Read’s attorneys have long suggested the taillight was tampered with and pieces were brought back to the crime scene at 34 Fairview Road in Canton.
In his final line of questioning, defense attorney Alan Jackson asked if Bukhenik ever considered Brian Higgins, the ATF agent who exchanged flirtatious texts with Read, to be a possible suspect in O’Keefe’s murder.
Bukhenik says he never considered Higgins to be a suspect because of the “totality of evidence” he says State Police have that point to Karen Read killing O’Keefe.
A mistrial was declared last year after jurors said they were at an impasse and deliberating further would be futile.
Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence, and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death.
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