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.

Karen Read, who is accused in the 2022 death of her boyfriend and Boston police officer John O'Keefe, will head back to court in April after the Massachusetts Supreme Court refused to drop multiple charges against her.

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