Read's lawyers are appealing to the state's highest court in their effort to drop charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The post Karen Read’s lawyers appeal to the SJC in bid to dismiss two charges appeared first on Boston.

DEDHAM – Attorneys for Karen Read are appealing to the state's highest court to have two charges, including second-degree murder, dropped following a July mistrial.

U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper denied the emergency injunction request on Nov. 10, ruling that, based on the limited information in front of her, the Canton police’s decision to order protesters to leave as a result of the state’s witness intimidation statute did not likely violate the First Amendment.

Karen Read’s attorneys have taken their argument that the murder charge against her be dropped all the way to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Karen Read has appealed her case to the highest court in Massachusetts in an attempt to get murder charges dismissed ahead of her retrial.

Karen Read’s lawyers have filed an appeal with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court challenging a judge’s decision not to dismiss two of three charges against her.