Watch Live: Karen Read opening statements today

Nine months following a dramatic mistrial declared under the glare of the national spotlight Karen Read is on trial again for the murder of her boyfriend Boston Police Officer John O Keefe Read of Mansfield faces charges of second-degree murder manslaughter while operating a motor automobile under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident causing death The episode Prosecutors say that Read backed her Lexus SUV into O Keefe at up to mph in the early morning hours of Jan leaving him to freeze and die on the front lawn of Fairview Road in Canton The defense has countered that someone else or multiple others killed him inside the house and left his body on the lawn They say that those killers which could include homeowner Brian Albert a fellow Boston cop who they say is well connected in the neighborhood worked with local police and crooked prosecutors to create a sweeping frame job of Read Read was tried last year but that matter ended July in mistrial after the jurors disclosed through three increasingly assertive notes that they had reached an impasse In a twist limited saw coming the defense shortly thereafter disclosed that multiple jurors had come forward to say they were not definitely at an impasse on two of the charges including murder but were ready to acquit The jurors according to defense arguments were only hung on the manslaughter charge This alleged revelation launched a multi-pronged effort to have every charge but manslaughter dropped against Read in the retrial The defense stated that the disclosures were tantamount to a verdict and that to retry her on the other charges would be a violation of her constitutional protections from Double Jeopardy But those efforts failed before trial Judge Beverly J Cannone the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the federal court in Boston and the federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit The defense has since launched a petition to have the argument reviewed by the U S Supreme Court but the court declined to delay the start of Read s retrial to take it up Opening day Opening statements are set to be delivered in contemporary times But those have yet to begin as attorneys and Judge Cannone are hammering out the final details on four motions filed over the weekend Victoria George a lawyer added to the defense unit ahead of jury selection is not at the defense table Instead she s sitting on Read s side of the gallery She was an alternate juror in the last trial Attorney Alan Jackson is expected to deliver the opening report for the defense Special prosecutor Hank Brennan is expected to do so for the Commonwealth This is a advancing story Watch court live