Supporters of Karen Read in her Massachusetts murder trial won a legal round in their First Amendment case involving a buffer zone keeping them away from the trial courthouse, The Boston Herald reported.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said May 12 that a district court should reconsider its ruling in favor of maintaining a 200-plus-foot buffer zone around Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham. Jurors in Read’s first trial had complained they could hear loud demonstrators while they deliberated.
“We think it prudent to vacate (but not reverse) the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction and remand this case for further proceedings,” the 1st Circuit wrote.
Read was charged with killing Boston police officer John O’Keefe in 2022.
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