Jury foreman in Karen Read retrial thought she was innocent from 'Day 1'

The jury foreman in the Karen Read murder retrial said Tuesday he thought the former police officer's girlfriend was always "an innocent woman.""Karen Read is innocent and she didn't do this crime," Juror No.

The jury foreman in the Karen Read murder retrial said Tuesday he thought the former police officer's girlfriend was always "an innocent woman."

"Karen Read is innocent and she didn't do this crime," Juror No. 1, who declined to give his name, said in a "TODAY" show interview. "No one could prove that she did this crime, so I looked at her from Day 1 as an innocent woman that needed to be proven guilty, and I don't think any of that was shown in this process."

After a previous mistrial and two months of testimony at the retrial, Read was acquitted last week of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of a collision in the 2022 death of her former boyfriend, Boston Police officer John O’Keefe.

The jury did convict Read of operating under the influence of liquor, and she was sentenced to one year of probation.

When asked Tuesday if he initially knew how high profile the case was, the jury foreman said, “I was just going to go with whatever the evidence showed us.”