Karen Read's lawyers asked a judge on Monday to dismiss part of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of her former Boston police officer boyfriend, whose killing she was acquitted of earlier this year after two highly publicized trials.
During a hearing before Plymouth County Superior Court Judge Daniel O’Shea, Read’s lawyers argued that John O’Keefe ’s parents, brother, and a niece he was raising after his sister and brother-in-law's deaths don't have standing to pursue emotional distress damages because they didn’t witness O'Keefe's death or see his body until after he had been declared dead at the hospital.
