Jury selection resumes on day 4 of Karen Read retrial

Jury selection for Karen Read s murder retrial resumed Friday at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham In a final attempt to get Read s murder charge dismissed her legal crew has publicized they are taking her double jeopardy claim to the Supreme Court of the United States Her lawyers say members of the previous hung jury came forward after the trial and declared they were only deadlocked on one of her three charges manslaughter Read s attorneys are now arguing that trying her again on second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly crash amounts to double jeopardy In Dedham the court is more than halfway through seating a new jury Five men and five women have been selected so far One of the previously chosen jurors was dismissed Thursday after telling the judge he could not serve but was fleetly replaced with another man the same morning Read is accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend John O Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow after a night out drinking in Her defense argues she s been framed insisting that O Keefe was killed by someone else This is a progressing news story stay with NEWS on-air and online for the latest details