The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on Tuesday morning denied Karen Read's bid to get two of three criminal charges she faces in the January 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend dropped.

BOSTON - The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has denied Karen Read's appeal to get some of the charges against her thrown out before her second criminal trial. Her defense argued before the highest court in the state last November that charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of personal injury and death should be dismissed.

The SJC, the state’s highest court, has issued its long-awaited decision on Karen Read’s bid to drop two of her charges.