In their own response, prosecutors restated their claim that without a public verdict, Read was never acquitted on any charge. The post Karen Read case: ACLU backs appeal to investigate jurors’ acquittal claims appeared first on Boston.

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.

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.