Karen Read retrial: 12 total jurors selected so far

Attorneys for the second murder trial of Karen Read ended Tuesday with a total of jurors for the final pool After multiple days with a total of in the pool attorneys picked up two more for the total On Tuesday they picked three and lost one who was dismissed for personal reasons according to Norfolk Superior Court Clerk James McDermott Read recounted reporters outside court that she expects opening arguments in her event to begin next Tuesday and that defense attorney Alan Jackson will be giving the opening declaration In last year s first trial attorney David Yannetti gave the opening while Jackson gave the closing argument I m anxious and it s in God s hands and we re fighting and working as hard as we can Read reported reporters about the trial Read of Mansfield is accused of striking Boston Police Officer John O Keefe her boyfriend of about two years with her SUV and leaving him to die in a major snowstorm on the front lawn of Fairview Road in Canton on Jan She was tried last year on charges of second-degree murder manslaughter while operating a motor truck under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident causing death but that ended in a mistrial on July after the jury announced an impasse through three notes Jury selection for her trial began Tuesday of last week and has been expectedly slow The vast majority of prospective jurors brought in every day indicate during general questioning that they had at least heard of the trial with a majority of those also indicating that they had formed an opinion on the matter Since Read s last trial the defense has mounted efforts to have charges tossed or the event dismissed outright So far those efforts have failed before trial Judge Beverly J Cannone the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the federal district court in Boston and the U S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit On April the same day her retrial started appellate defense attorney Martin Weinberg filed a petition to the U S Supreme Court to consider Read s scenario He has also sought for the Supreme Court to issue a stay to the state courts until it has decided whether it will take up Read s scenario