The state's highest court may have to determine whether the jury in Karen Read's trial was truly deadlocked or led astray from acquitting her of murder. Why it matters: The high-profile Read case is raising broader questions about whether someone can be retried without it counting as double jeopardy.

Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend,

Karen Read prosecutors say that the trial judge did not err in declaring a mistrial and that “there was no meaningful alternative” to her decision in their response to her SJC appeal seeking to

Prosecutors have asked Massachusetts’ highest court to allow them to retry Karen Read for the murder of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

Prosecutors in the Karen Read legal saga on Wednesday filed their brief with the state’s highest court urging the panel to reject her request to have the second-degree murder and leaving the scene charges dismissed against her in the high-profile case.