Read's defense team will have a chance to lay out their own version of events. They have long said she was framed for the murder in an elaborate conspiracy devised by Massachusetts police officers.

Testimony is continuing in the murder trial of Karen Read, who is accused of backing her SUV into her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, and leaving him for dead.

Testimony resumes on Friday in the retrial of Karen Read, a woman charged with murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, in January 2022.