As jury selection unfolds in the Karen Read retrial in Dedham her attorneys have taken their efforts to overturn the murder charge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Karen Read is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case as her second murder trial in the death of her boyfriend begins.

Karen Read has taken her case for dropping two of the three charges against her to the highest court in the country. Her legal team this week appealed to the Supreme Court to review whether Read’s constitutional protection against double jeopardy means the charges should be dropped,

Karen Read is asking the nation's highest court to overturn two charges that her lawyers say jurors in the first trial agreed to acquit her of.

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In a filing Thursday night, Read's lawyers asked the nation's highest court to consider a "unanimous, but unannounced decision by a jury following trial that the prosecution failed to prove a defendant guilty.

Read and her legal team have already had their argument of double jeopardy rejected by numerous courts so far, and are now appealing to the highest form of judicial court in the country.

Karen Read has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, looking to have two charges against her dismissed.Read’s lawyers say the jury in her first trial<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More