Jurors within the Karen Learn homicide retrial didn’t attain a verdict after about 9 hours of deliberation over the earlier two days. Might a verdict come in the present day?
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Attorneys within the case made their closing arguments on Friday, permitting for roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes of deliberation earlier than jurors had been launched for the weekend. They returned Monday for his or her first full day deliberation that may resolve the destiny of Learn, a 45-year-old Mansfield former school lecturer and monetary analyst.
She’s accused of mowing down her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, within the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022, and leaving him to freeze and die on a Canton entrance yard.
Learn faces expenses of second-degree homicide, OUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of a dying.
Throughout verdict watch, Dedham has turn into residence to a virtually outside music pageant environment as tons of of her supporters come of their signature pink garments.
Outdoors a “buffer zone” surrounding Norfolk Superior Courtroom, her supporters maintain indicators and converse amongst themselves locally that has cropped up over forward of the primary trial final yr and continues in the present day. They’ve just lately adopted the signal for “love” in American Signal Language to sign help for Learn as they aren’t allowed to make a lot noise contained in the zone. Her detractors who had been current final yr haven’t been as current, if in any respect, in current days.
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AP Photograph/Charles Krupa
Supporters sign to Karen Learn, because the jury deliberates at Learn’s trial, exterior Norfolk Superior Courtroom Monday in Dedham. (AP Photograph/Charles Krupa)
