Tensions are heating up in a Boston courtroom, and the focus is on the defendant at the center of the case: Karen Read. Read has been charged with the second-degree murder of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. Read has pleaded not guilty and alleges that she has been framed as part of a police cover-up.

FOX 25 Reporter Ted Daniel unpacks the bombshell accusations during the trial and looks at the polarizing reactions the case has garnered.

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