Karen Read’s legal team is asking a judge to throw out part of the civil wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of the late Boston police officer John O’Keefe, who died in January 2022. 

The suit also names two Canton bars, which the family claims overserved her before the night O’Keefe was found fatally injured outside a Canton home owned at the time by another Boston police officer who was O’Keefe’s friend. 

Prosecutors had alleged in the criminal case that Read, who was dating O’Keefe, struck him with her SUV while dropping him off at the home and left him in the snow. Read’s defense argued he died after a fight inside the house, suggesting his injuries came from being beaten and possibly attacked by a dog.

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