Attorneys for Karen Read filed a 77-page brief with the state's highest court on Wednesday, arguing that the state’s continued push to retry her would amount to unconstitutional double jeopardy.

Karen Read’s lawyers have officially filed their brief to Massachusetts’ highest court, which just last week agreed to hear their appeal. Wednesday was the deadline to get those briefs in, and in documents filed a short time ago,

This issue is one of existential importance — not merely to Ms. Read, but to the very foundation of the constitutional safeguards that protect her,” Read's lawyers wrote.

September 25, 2024 \. Mor