An attorney for Karen Reed have asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to a murder charge she faces in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police officer John O’Keefe.

Karen Read’s civil attorneys filed a motion to “stay civil proceedings pending resolution of criminal trial” in Plymouth Superior Court’s Brockton branch.

Read's lawyers are appealing to the state's highest court in their effort to drop charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The post Karen Read’s lawyers appeal to the SJC in bid to dismiss two charges appeared first on Boston.

Karen Read's attorney asked Massachusetts' highest court to dismiss two charges, arguing they would constitute double jeopardy.

Karen Read’s lawyers said the trial judge made crucial errors in her declaration of a mistrial in the murder case and in dealing with jurors’ post-trial disclosures that they were ready to acquit

Karen Read’s lawyers have officially filed their brief to Massachusetts’ highest court, which just last week agreed to hear their appeal. Wednesday was the deadline to get those briefs in, and in documents filed a short time ago,