Karen Read is asking the highest court in the nation to take up her double jeopardy claims. The court is asked to review more than 7,000 cases each year — it agrees to hear between 100 to 150.

Karen Read's lawyers have taken her double jeopardy appeal to the United States Supreme Court with her second trial underway in the death of John O'Keefe.

Read's lawyers say they have “powerful evidence that the jury in her prior trial found her not guilty” on two of her three ...