Karen Read murder trial: Defense begins calling witnesses after prosecution rests

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Lawyers for Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman charged with murder in the 2022 death of her police officer boyfriend, began calling witnesses to the stand in an effort to portray their client as the victim of an elaborate law enforcement conspiracy seeking to frame her for the killing. The testimony began Friday as the trial closed out its eighth week in a courtroom in suburban Boston.

Prosecutors have said that O’Keefe never actually made it to the party — no one who was there has said they saw him — and they pointed to evidence found on Read’s SUV that they say shows the vehicle was used to run him down outside the home. The Lexus’ tail light was broken, the prosecutor has said, and strands of O’Keefe’s hair were found on the vehicle’s bumper.

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