Karen Learn
Not Responsible of Homicide …
In Retrial for Boston Cop BF’s Dying
Revealed
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Karen Learn — the Massachusetts girl accused of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe in 2022 — has simply been discovered not responsible of homicide.
Learn was charged with second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas working beneath the affect, and leaving the scene of an accident inflicting harm or demise. The jury discovered her responsible of a single rely of OUI Wednesday … Working Below the Affect.
Learn will serve a 12 months of probation for the OUI conviction.
Learn’s retrial started in April, and ultimate arguments completed Friday — and the jury started deliberations Friday afternoon. Monday started the primary full day of deliberations … and the decision was reached Wednesday.
Prosecutors alleged in January 2022, Learn obtained right into a heated drunken argument with O’Keefe earlier than backing up and hitting him together with her SUV, killing him … then fleeing the scene, leaving him to die in a buddy’s snow-covered entrance yard in Canton, Mass.
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Learn, who’s now 45, has all the time maintained she’s harmless — her crew says she was framed, claiming O’Keefe really obtained right into a brawl together with his fellow cops that evening, and says they pinned his demise on Learn.
There have been seven girls and 5 males on this jury.
Karen’s first trial resulted in a mistrial final 12 months … the jury voted to acquit her on second-degree homicide and fleeing the scene — however deadlocked 9-3 in favor of convicting her on vehicular manslaughter.