BOSTON - The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has denied Karen Read's appeal to get some of the charges against her thrown out before her second criminal trial. Her defense argued before the highest court in the state last November that charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of personal injury and death should be dismissed.

The state’s top court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all the same charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all three charges connected to the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. The ruling from the state's top court clears the way for an April trial for Read on charges of second-degree murder,

Read’s attorneys asked the state’s highest court to throw out two charges — second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident— on double jeopardy grounds.

The state's top court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all previous charges in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. The court rejected her attorneys' bid to dismiss two of the three counts.

The ruling clears the way for the Commonwealth to prosecute Read on all three charges of second-degree murder, leaving the scene of a crash, and manslaughter come retrial in April.