Karen Read's lawyers have argued since July that she should not be retried for 2nd degree murder. But justices on the state's ...

Massachusetts' highest court has denied an effort by the defense to have two of the charges dropped in the controversial ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling means prosecutors can try her again on charges of second-degree murder, ...

A judge declared a mistrial in a Berkshire Superior Court trial Tuesday after a juror saw the defendant being brought into ...

The mistrial follows six days of evidence. Prosecutors had called witness after witness as they made their case against Francisco Munoz. They say he shot and killed Silvano Mendoza in Parlier ...

THAT OBJECTION WAS OVERRULED. WITH THE JURY OUT. THE DEFENSE ASKED FOR A MISTRIAL AND DIRECTED VERDICT ON ALL OF HUGHES’S CHARGES. THOSE MOTIONS WERE ALSO DENIED. NOW THAT THE STATE HAS RESTED ...

Massachusetts' top court ruled that Karen ... while her defense claims she was framed to protect other officers. A mistrial was declared in June after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

Ex-Trooper Michael Proctor allegedly texted a prosecutor the day of the mistrial suggesting he may ... On Tuesday, Massachusetts’ top court paved the way for Read to be retried on all the ...

A second attempt to call a mistrial in the murder case for Guadalupe Contreras was denied Wednesday after a key witness for the state admitted to reading news articles about the trial.

the Supreme Court Judicial Court of Massachusetts disagreed with that reasoning, writing: "In sum, we conclude that the trial judge acted within her discretion in declaring a mistrial without ...