Supreme Court rejects double jeopardy in Read retrial

The United States Supreme Court has denied Karen Read?s appeal to dismiss charges in connection with the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O?Keefe. Read?s lawyers argued that jurors in her first murder trial had agreed to acquit her on charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene, but did not know they could return a partial verdict. Read?s lawyers suggested that if she is being charged again with the previously dropped charges, then it would cause double jeopardy.