The state’s top court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all the same charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

BOSTON - The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has denied Karen Read's appeal to get some of the charges against her thrown out before her second criminal trial. Her defense argued before the highest court in the state last November that charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of personal injury and death should be dismissed.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all three charges connected to the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. The ruling from the state's top court clears the way for an April trial for Read on charges of second-degree murder,