Karen Read ‘considering all options’ in possible civil suit, attorneys says
Karen Read attorney Alan Jackson said that he and his client are “considering all options” when it comes to a civil suit regarding her prosecution for murder, for which she was acquitted earlier this year.
“I’ll say this — I’m back here for a reason, it’s not just a pleasure tour. We’ve met with the legal team back here dealing with the civil issue. There’s obviously a lot to unpack where that’s concerned,” attorney Alan Jackson said on the Howie Carr Show Thursday afternoon.
“So had and will continue to have significant meetings about that, what Karen’s next options — what her options are in general, but what her next moves might be. And we’re considering all options,” he continued.
Details were limited at that stage of the interview, which began at 2 p.m. and is ongoing.
Jackson was a prominent member of Read’s legal defense team in both of her trials for the murder of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.
Prosecutors say that the two-year relationship between Read and O’Keefe had become strained with jealousy and significant fighting, heightened by frequent alcohol use.
During the trials, prosecutors presented a case that in the early morning of Jan. 29, 2022, Read and O’Keefe got into an alcohol-fueled fight on their way to an after-party at a home in Canton and that Read backed her SUV up at great speed into O’Keefe and left him to freeze and die on a Canton front yard as a snowstorm raged across the region.
But Los Angeles-based Jackson and the rest of her legal team, including original attorney David Yannetti, who was part of the team the whole time, presented a different story: that Read was framed by corrupt local police and prosecutors for O’Keefe’s death and that the science proves O’Keefe was not killed by a vehicle strike.
The O’Keefe family has filed a civil suit of their own against Read as well as the two bars she and O’Keefe drank at in downtown Canton before O’Keefe’s death.
This is a developing story.
