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,

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have called on the state's highest court to allow them to retry Karen Read for murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, arguing against defense claims that jurors had reached a verdict against some of her charges before the judge declared a mistrial.

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 trial court had a clear path to avoid an erroneous mistrial: simply ask the jurors to confirm whether a verdict had been reached on any count,” the ACLU wrote.