The high-profile Karen Read murder trial ran the Massachusetts State Police hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs, largely in overtime pay.

Security for Karen Read's first trial cost Massachusetts State Police more than a quarter of a million dollars.

Prosecutors have asked Massachusetts’ highest court to allow them to retry Karen Read for the murder of her Boston police officer boyfriend, arguing against a bid by the defense to have two of her three charges dropped.

Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend,

In their own response, prosecutors restated their claim that without a public verdict, Read was never acquitted on any charge. The post Karen Read case: ACLU backs appeal to investigate jurors’ acquittal claims appeared first on Boston.

The state's highest court may have to determine whether the jury in Karen Read's trial was truly deadlocked or led astray from acquitting her of murder. Why it matters: The high-profile Read case is raising broader questions about whether someone can be retried without it counting as double jeopardy.

Karen Read prosecutors say that the trial judge did not err in declaring a mistrial and that “there was no meaningful alternative” to her decision in their response to her SJC appeal seeking to

The trial court had a clear path to avoid an erroneous mistrial: simply ask the jurors to confirm whether a verdict had been reached on any count,” the ACLU wrote.

Prosecutors said the trial judge handled the deadlocked jury correctly and asked the state's top court to consider the impact Read's requests could have on future juries.