The U.S. Supreme Court has reportedly denied the double jeopardy appeal of Karen Read and will not hear her lawyer’s case as she faces a retrial for having allegedly killed her boyfriend in January 2022, ABC News reported Monday.

Read’s first Boston-area trial ended in a hung jury and a mistrial. Her lawyers had appealed to the Supreme Court that a retrial would have violated the Constitution’s restriction against double jeopardy: being tried twice for the same crime.

Her lawyers argued the hung jurors allegedly agreed on acquittal for two charges in her first trial, but those allegations came from statements after the trial and not in actual court proceedings.

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