Last week a jury cleared Karen Read of killing her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, in Canton in January 2022, ending a criminal case that sparked allegations of police corruption, and multiple grand jury probes.

During arguments over verdict slip confusion, defense attorney Alan Jackson warned Judge Cannone that the second trial could end in a similar way. "We are going to end up in the exact same position that we were in last year," Jackson told the judge during the tense exchange Tuesday.

Read’s defense attorneys argued that O’Keefe, who allegedly had a long-standing disagreement with someone at the party, was severely injured during an argument at the party and may have been attacked by a dog given the deep wounds on his arm.