Karen Read is taking her double jeopardy fight to the second highest court in the nation.
A federal judge denied Read’s petition to drop two of the three criminal charges she faces in state court in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, last week. But the judge, U.S. District Court Chief Justice F. Dennis Saylor IV, found Read’s lawyers made the necessary “substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right” to allow an appeal to go forward.
