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A member of a federal grand jury involved in the Karen Read case in the Boston area has been indicted for leaking confidential details from non-public court sessions.
Jessica Leslie has entered a plea agreement that entails a one-day sentence, with credit for time she has already served, along with two years of probation, according to the court documents.
The case was filed on July 11, and she signed the plea deal three days later.
Officer John O’Keefe is seen in his formal portrait. His girlfriend, Karen Read, currently faces a murder trial following the discovery of his body outside a residence in Massachusetts in January 2022. (Boston Police Department)
While the filings do not specifically identify the case Leslie was a grand juror on, a source close to the investigation confirmed to Fox News Digital it was related to Karen Read.
Read’s first trial on charges of murder, drunken driving manslaughter and fleeing the scene of a deadly accident ended with a deadlocked jury last year. A second trial cleared her of the most serious charges.
Karen Read, who is accused of killing her boyfriend Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, in 2022, during her murder trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
She is still facing a wrongful death lawsuit brought by O’Keefe’s family. The lawsuit also names two bars Read and O’Keefe were drinking at in the hours before his death – C.F McCarthy’s and the Waterfall Bare and Grille, both in Canton.
The O’Keefes filed the lawsuit in August 2024, after Read’s first trial ended with a deadlocked jury. The court put it on hold until her second trial ended.
Read is accused of “knowingly and deliberately” changing her story, concocting “a conspiracy” and publicizing a “false narrative, thereby frustrating Justice for JJ.”
JJ was O’Keefe’s nickname, and the family alleges Read’s narrative caused them “aggravated emotional distress.”
Read’s civil lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the case last week.
