The Boston-area woman was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend in 2022. The jury was dismissed for the weekend and will resume on Monday.

Residents of Canton, Massachusetts are looking forward to restoring peace in the town that's been divided by the high-profile case.

The jury started to deliberate shortly after 2:30 p.m. Friday and were sent home two hours later. Deliberations will resume Monday morning.

Karen Read proposed that she personally select which of the jurors would serve as alternates in her murder trial — an idea the judge denied.

The defense in the second trial of Karen Read has rested its case, saying Read was framed for the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

Jurors, including six alternates, heard blistering closing arguments from Read's defense who argued that the case "was corrupted from the start," while the government insisted she hit her boyfriend Jo

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to give jurors their closing arguments on Friday as her retrial for the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, nears its end.