Karen Read Asks Massachusetts Court To Throw Out Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Murder Acquittal

Karen Read, cleared past month of execution charges successful nan decease of her erstwhile boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, is asking a Massachusetts tribunal to propulsion retired nan wrongful decease suit his family revenge against her, according to a caller tribunal filing.

The O'Keefes named Read and 2 bars nan mates visited successful nan hours earlier his decease successful a suit seeking an unspecified sum of much than $50,000.

She has a different ineligible squad successful nan civilian lawsuit than nan high-profile criminal defense squad that helped triumph her freedom. Read's civilian lawyers notified nan tribunal Wednesday they had served a mobility to disregard to each parties.

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Karen Read leaves Norfolk Superior Court aft nan assemblage began deliberations June 13, 2025.  (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

"It’s fundamentally announcement that location is an out-of-court process going on," said Jack Lu, a retired Massachusetts judge and Boston College rule professor. "Moving statement files a (Rule) 9A package pinch nan different sides. The different sides nonstop their guidance packages to nan moving party. They work together connected thing they can, and nan full large package is forwarded to nan court, which schedules a proceeding aliases rules without a hearing."

It doesn't mean nan sides are getting immoderate person to a settlement, however, he said.

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The O'Keefes revenge nan suit successful August 2024, aft Read's first proceedings ended pinch a deadlocked jury. The tribunal put it connected clasp until her 2nd proceedings ended.

Paul O'Keefe, relative of nan precocious John O'Keefe, sits pinch family arsenic nan Karen Read lawsuit continues successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham May 2, 2025.  (Mark Jarret Chavous via Imagn, Pool)

She was acquitted of each homicide-related charges but convicted of a drunken driving discourtesy for which she received probation.

Read was accused of hitting her fellow pinch a Lexus SUV and leaving him to die successful nan snow, but prosecutors grounded to person nan assemblage contempt uncovering shattered taillight fragments successful nan victim's clothes.

In her first trial, Read's defense said she had been framed. In nan second, she denied a collision ever happened, and her lawyers pointed to glaring holes successful nan investigation.

Officer John O’Keefe  (Boston Police Department)

According to nan lawsuit, successful nan days earlier O'Keefe's death, "Read picked fights, knowledgeable jealousy and had delusions of unfaithfulness."

They went retired drinking Jan. 28, 2022, stopping astatine C.F. McCarthy's and past nan Waterfall Bar and Grille, some successful Canton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

The suit accuses unit astatine McCarthy's of letting Read leave pinch a portion successful her manus and nan Waterfall of serving her erstwhile she was visibly intoxicated. Like authorities prosecutors, it besides accuses Read of knocking O'Keefe to nan crushed pinch her car and leaving him to dice successful nan snowfall pinch a caput wounded during a blizzard.

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Bill Read and his woman Jenny locomotion pinch girl Karen Read, right, into Norfolk County Superior Court May 19, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

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The load of impervious is held to a little modular successful lawsuits. In nan 1990s, erstwhile NFL prima O.J. Simpson was acquitted of nan murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman but recovered civilly liable for their deaths.

Read is accused of "knowingly and deliberately" changing her story, concocting "a conspiracy" and publicizing a "false narrative, thereby frustrating Justice for JJ."

JJ was O'Keefe's nickname, and nan family alleges Read's communicative caused them "aggravated affectional distress."