DEDHAM, Mass. — Both the prosecution and the defense in Karen Read’s criminal case are asking the judge to postpone the upcoming second trial.
They filed a joint request on Monday to move the second trial back from Jan. 27 to Apr. 1, saying it would give both sides “adequate time” to prepare for the high-profile trial.
Read, 44, of Mansfield, is accused of hitting her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV outside a Canton home on Jan. 29, 2022, and leaving him to die in a snowstorm following a night of drinking at C.F. McCarthy’s and Waterfall Bar & Grille…