Read is accused of striking John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die alone in a blizzard outside of a house party in Canton/

Prosecutors allege Read, 45, drunkenly and intentionally reversed her SUV toward O’Keefe as she dropped him off at an afterparty in Canton early on Jan. 29, 2022. “She was drunk,” special prosecutor Hank Brennan alleged. “She hit him, and she left him to die.”

Both sides in Karen Read’s murder retrial appeared in court Thursday for a hearing before they deliver closing arguments to jurors on Friday. The hearing is known as a charge conference, where the parties hash out instructions the jury will receive before they start deliberating. Jurors weren’t present for Thursday’s proceedings.

DEDHAM, Mass. — Monday marked the first full day of jury deliberations in the murder retrial of Karen Read, the woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. After a full day of deliberations, jurors were not able to reach a verdict Monday and will to court Tuesday to continue.

The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began.

Judge Beverly Cannone also denied the defense team’s motion for a mistrial based on what Read’s lawyers called “intentional misconduct” from prosecutor Hank Brennan.