Several motions on the table for Karen Read’s final pretrial hearing

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The countdown is on to Karen Read’s trial, with jury selection expected to begin Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court.

Before that can happen, Judge Beverly Cannone must consider a number of limine motions — essentially requests regarding what evidence and arguments both sides will be allowed to present at trial.

Read, 44, is accused of crashing her SUV into her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, and leaving him to die outside a co-worker’s home in Canton in January 2022. Her lawyers allege she was framed as part of a widespread cover-up. among witnesses and law enforcement.

Among their motions in limine, the defense asked Cannone to exclude DNA evidence from an apparent hair allegedly recovered from Read’s car, after a lab was unable to complete testing before the trial.

Read’s lawyers also asked to exclude a blood test she took at Good Samaritan Medical Center hours after finding O’Keefe’s body. According to prosecutors, a forensic toxicologist was able to use the sample to estimate that Read’s blood alcohol level was about 0.07% to 0.08% shortly after 9 a.m. and would have been between 0.13 % and 0.29% at the time she allegedly deposed O’Keefe.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, asked to include evidence of Read and O’Keefe’s alleged relationship problems as a possible motive. They also ask Cannone to exclude any mention of Turtleboy blogger Aidan Kearney, who faces a series of witness intimidation charges for his alleged harassment of witnesses in the Read case.

Other limine motions from prosecutors include requests to prevent Read’s lawyers from raising a third-party guilty defense and to bar any mention of federal investigations by the U.S. Attorney’s Office or the Federal Bureau of Investigations . In November 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts launched a federal grand jury investigation into the investigation surrounding O’Keefe’s death, later turning over more than 3,000 pages of information to attorneys in the Read affair.