Karen Read DENIED Double Jeopardy Appeal from the U.S. Supreme Court | Crime Alert 3PM 04.28.25

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a setback for Karen Read by denying her request to dismiss two of the three charges against her in the murder trial concerning the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in 2022. This ruling allows her second trial to proceed.

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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I'm Nicole Parton. The US Supreme Court has issued a
blow setback for Karen Reid by denying her request to
dismiss two of the three charges against her in the
murder trial concerning the death of her boyfriend, Boston police
officer John O'Keefe. This ruling allows her second retrial, which
is under way, to proceed. Last year, Read's first trial

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ended in a mistrial when the jury was unable to
reach a consensus on all charges. She subsequently appealed, arguing
that the jurors had previously indicated a willingness to acquit
her on two of the charges, asserting that her retrial
would constitute double jeopardy. Earlier this month, Justice Brown Jackson

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denied an emergency motion from Reid's defense team to delay
the second trial while her appeal was being considered. In
the ongoing retrial, jurors visited the Canton residence where John
O'Keeffe was discovered fatally injured, although Reed did not accompany them.
To ensure Reed's right to a fair trial with an
unbiased jury, Judge Beverly Cononi, who also went to the

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crime scene, mandated that media representatives maintain a distance of
at least one hundred yards from the jurors during the visit.
She laid out the rules before they left the courthouse.

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The purpose of the view is to help you better
understand the evidence which you'll hear during the course of
the trial.

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Count on Crime Alert hourly update to keep you posted
as this trial unfolds WI crime and Justice news after this.
A man from Georgia has been charged with murder following
the death of his wife, who was diagnosed with AIDS
shortly before her passing. Prosecutors alleged that he was aware

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he was HIV positive but failed to inform his wife.
Cleveland Brody, now in his early sixties, faced initial charges
of reckless conduct after the death of his wife, Denise Brody.
She died due to the illness just two days after
receiving her diagnosis. A grand jury has now escalated the
charges against him to include malice, murder and felony murder

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in relation to Denise's death. Following her death, Denise Brody's
family grew suspicious that their stepfather had knowingly concealed his
HIV positive status from their mother when they married in
twenty fourteen, A local Fox affiliate WAGA reported that the
family hired a private investigator to Delvin to cleveland Brody's

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past prior to his marriage, and then turned that information
over to authorities. He is currently being held without bond
and now to West Virginia, where the Bluefield Police are
asking for information on a missing woman. The Bluefield Police
Department is looking for Tina Marie Handcock. She is a
forty four year old woman. Police describe her as having

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blonde hair with blue eyes. She is five four about
a hun hundred and sixty pounds. Hancock was last seen
on April twenty six on Pain Street in the city
of Bluefield. You are urged to call the Bluefield Police
Department if you have any information regarding her whereabouts. Their
number is three zero four three two seven six' one zero.

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