The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried for her boyfriend’s murder, despite a mistrial last year.
In July, a jury failed to reach a verdict on two charges — murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident — against Read. Though some of the jurors expressed, after the mistrial, that they were not as divided over a verdict as it seemed, Justice Serge Georges Jr. wrote that “posttrial disclosures cannot retroactively alter the trial’s outcome,” per Boston.com.
Following multiple rounds of deliberations, the jury informed the court they remained “deeply divided by fundamental differences in our opinions and state of mind.” They noted that this division was not the result of confusion or misunderstanding, but “deeply held convictions” that would make it imposs
