Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend,

Prosecutors called on the highest court in Massachusetts not to support dropping two charges against Karen Read who is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend based.

In their own response, prosecutors restated their claim that without a public verdict, Read was never acquitted on any charge. The post Karen Read case: ACLU backs appeal to investigate jurors’ acquittal claims appeared first on Boston.

Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed, and we are expecting to find out Thursday just what they argued.

The state's highest court may have to determine whether the jury in Karen Read's trial was truly deadlocked or led astray from acquitting her of murder. Why it matters: The high-profile Read case is raising broader questions about whether someone can be retried without it counting as double jeopardy.

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Prosecutors said the trial judge handled the deadlocked jury correctly and asked the state's top court to consider the impact Read's requests could have on future juries.