Jury deliberations in the retrial of Karen Read will continue Wednesday morning, after an eventful day Tuesday that saw jurors send four notes to the presiding judge.
The jury has had the case for about 16 hours across three days. Before sending the jury home for the day Tuesday, Judge Beverly Cannone said, “We know you’ve all been working very hard; we appreciate it.”
Deliberations will resume around 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Jurors can deliberate for as long as needed to reach a unanimous verdict.
On Tuesday, the jury sent questions to Cannone asking about the verdict slip and what would lead to a hung jury.
Read, 45, is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident causing injury or death.
She is accused of ramming her Lexus SUV into her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, outside the Canton home of another police officer. Read and her lawyers have said she was framed and O’Keefe was beaten to death inside the home.
