The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began at Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. As crowds gathered outside the courthouse,

Attorneys made their closing arguments to jurors in Norfolk Superior Court there on Friday before Judge Beverly J. Cannone sent seven women and five men away to deliberate Karen Read’s fate.

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Karen Read will not take the witness stand in the second trial about the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend as the defense has rested.

“As it stands now, no competent defense counsel would call Mr. Proctor,” Jack Lu, a retired superior court judge, said in an interview before Read’s defense rested this week. “He has the ability to eviscerate the defense but without him they have a path to victory.”