Read, 45, is accused of killing her boyfriend, Braintree native and Boston police officer John O'Keefe, by backing into him with her SUV outside a Canton home in January 2022 and leaving him to die in a snowstorm following a night of drinking. But defense attorneys for Read say she was framed for O'Keefe's death.

I think this is going to be twice what the first trial was, just in terms of magnitude and witnesses,” Karen Read told VF.