There will be no verdict this week in the trial of a Mansfield woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, 46-year-old Braintree native John O'Keefe, with her SUV outside a Canton home in January 2022.
A few hours after the jury reported that they were deadlocked in the murder trial of Karen Read, Judge Beverly Cannone sent them home for the weekend. Deliberations will resume on Monday.
Earlier on Friday afternoon, after reading a note from the jury and hearing from lawyers on both sides, Cannone ordered the jurors to continue deliberating.
"A case that has been .... it's been a long case," said Cannone said. "This note arrived with less than three hours of deliberation ... I am not prepared to say there was due and through deliberations."
The jury continued deliberations until 4:15 p.m. Friday and then were dismissed for the weekend.
Cannone told the jury to use the weekend to clear their heads, to not think about or do additional research on the case. Jury deliberations will continue starting at 9 a.m. Monday.
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