The Karen Read trial is now in the hands of the defense, which called its first witness today. The prosecution rested its case in the high-profile Massachusetts murder trial on Thursday after weeks of testimony from 38 witnesses.

The prosecution rested its case Thursday in the Karen Read murder retrial.

Testimony resumes on Friday in the retrial of Karen Read, a woman charged with murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, in January 2022.