In their own response, prosecutors restated their claim that without a public verdict, Karen Read was not acquitted on any charge.

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,

Prosecutors called on the highest court in Massachusetts not to support dropping two charges against Karen Read who is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend based.

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.

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

The ACLU has jumped into the Karen Read Supreme Judicial Court fight on the side of the accused murderer. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a brief in Read’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court to have two of the three charges against her — including second-degree murder — dropped in her second trial scheduled for January.