With a jury selection for his second murder case in the death of Boston police officer John O’Kif, Karen Reid’s lawyer is appealing to a lower court’s decision that it is not facing a double threat in the US Supreme Court.
Reed’s first test ended in a wrong way last year, but her lawyers argued that the jury unanimously agreed that she was not guilty of two of the three allegations, including the most serious murder, and that it was unconstitutionally placed in the case for the same crime.
The agreement was undeclared in the test, however.
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Karen studied Norfolk Superior Court on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 in Deadham, Massachusetts. (Dario Alekin for Fox News Digital)
According to the 149-Page filing, Reid’s lawyers are presenting to the High Court with two questions:
- Whether one final and unanimously, but unannounced, a jury decided by a jury that the prosecution has failed to prove the defendant of an accused offense, which overtakes a person under a double threat section.
- Does a defendant who produces reliable evidence of such a final, unanimous and unannounced acquittal deserves hearing after testing to reinforce the fact of such acquitters.
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The officer John O’Kif gives up for his official headshot. O’Keef’s girlfriend, Karen Reid, is currently prosecuted for murder after Massachusetts was found dead outside a house in January 2022. (Boston Police Department)
The fifth amendment guarantees constitutional protection from double threats – testing or punishment for the same offense twice.
After a misunderstanding, a retrick may usually proceed – but Reid’s lawyers argued that in his case, he was put in double threat to two allegations in unique circumstances, but the gamblers agreed, but did not announce.
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Karen read and John O’Kif poses in an undivided photo. (Read Karen)
In the days of stagnant deliberations, the gamblers repeatedly sent a note to the court, stating that they were in a deadlock, and Judge Beverly Canon instructed them to keep trying. Discussions began on 25 June 2024. Till 1 July, the dead to still had a deadlock with the gamblers, the judge declared a mistress.
In his appeal, Reid’s lawyers said that the judge did not give an opportunity to speak on both sides and without asking whether they were all closed in person on allegations or any charges.
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Karen read in court during jury selection in Norfoch County Superior Court on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at Deadham, Massachusetts for his first test. (AP, Pool through David McGlin/New York Post)
The next day, a jurner identified one as a jurner contacted the Reid’s Attorney, Alan Jackson, and told him that the panel “unanimously agreed that Karen was not guilty of the Reid Count 1 (second-degree murder),” according to the trial.
According to the trial, text messages sent from Jurmer B expressed similar claims. According to the filing, gamblers C and D also arrived for the reading team with the same versions as the events.
Additionally, at least one of the gamblers said in a sound mail for prosecutors.
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Karen smilingly said that Raksha Attorney David Yaneeti spoke to reporters before the Norfolk Superior Court, when the judge declared a misunderstanding, when the gamblers were unable to reach a decision after two months of lawsuit in Deadam, Massachusetts on Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Steven Sen)
“It was not guilty at the second degree,” Jurler B wrote in a lesson shared with another Reid Attorney David Yaneeti. “And got divided into half for the second charge … I felt that the prosecution had not proved the matter. Nobody thought he hit him on the purpose or even thought he hit him with purpose.”
In a phone conversation, Reid’s lawyers claim that Juver B clarified the second sentence of the lesson, saying that he should read, “Nobody thought that he hit him with purpose or even knew that he had killed him.”
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Judge Beverly Canon saw on the decision slip that the gamblers have to be filled when they arrive at a verdict in the murder case of Karen Reid, on Wednesday 26 June 2024 in the Norfolk Superior Court in Deadam, Massachusetts. (Greg der/patriot laser AP, via pool)
According to the filing, the murder accusation was “away from the table,”, and Jurler A also said that the gamblers agreed that the reed was not guilty of leaving the scene.
Reid was arrested for driving driving, manglotter and a scene of an accident, and later motivated for the additional charge of killing a second degree after returning to O’carf outside a party and left him to die on the ground in snowfall.
If her appeal succeeds, she would only face the mangelopter charge.
Karen Reid appears with his lawyers, Alan Jackson and David Yaneetti, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 in the deadam of Massachusetts during the first day of jury selection in Norfoch Superior Court. (AP, pool through Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)
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Appellate courts at Massachusetts have already denied his request, finding that because no decision was read in court, she was not acquitted of any allegations and is not facing double threats. His legal team converted to the country’s highest court this week, which asked him to review the decision of the lower court and after hearing after the test.
Reed may face life in jail if he is guilty of killing a second degree in the second trial starting on Tuesday. He has requested not to be guilty and refused to participate in O’Kif’s death, his defense presented him as a sacrifice of a sacrifice by the alleged true killers.
