Lawyer representing Canton bar sued in O'Keefe wrongful death lawsuit withdraws
The O'Keefe family alleges in the lawsuit that an intoxicated Read backed her SUV into O'Keefe early on Jan. 29, 2022 after they left the bars and she dropped him off outside a Fairview Road home in Canton. The O'Keefe family says the two bars are also liable for over-serving Read.
Read and the bars have denied the allegations in the civil case, and
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Jurors also cleared Read of manslaughter while operating under the influence and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death, finding her guilty only of misdemeanor OUI, for which she received a year's probation.
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Her lawyers said she was framed and that O'Keefe entered the Fairview home, owned at the time by a fellow Boston officer, where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by a German Shepherd before his body was planted on the front lawn.
Dedham, MA June 18 Karen Read emerges from Norfolk Superior Court, in Dedham, MA on Wednesday June 18, 2025, after the jury delivered its verdict in her murder retrial. Her lead attorney, Alan Jackson, is at right. (Pat Greenhouse/ The Boston Globe Staff)
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A trial date for the wrongful death lawsuit hasn't been set.
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