I'm Emily Campaniel, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

A bombshell development has arisen in the case of Karen Reid just one week after the judge declared a mistrial.

On Monday, Reid's defense team filed a motion to dismiss two of the charges filed against her,

including second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident.

Reed's lawyer stated that they received, quote, unsolicited communications from three of the

12 jurors in Reed's trial that they had unanimously reached an agreement, quote unquote, to

acquit her of the two charges.

The news comes following the end of Reed's first trial, which after five days of deliberations

in a deadlocked jury, Judge Beverly Canone declared a mistrial.

Reed was accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, with her SUV

and then leaving him for dead in a blizzard in January of 2022.

While the prosecutors in the case have stated that they plan to seek a new trial on the same counts,

Reed's lawyers

have countered that it would violate her double jeopardy protections. Joining me back on the podcast

with more information on this groundbreaking filing is Fox 25's Ted Daniel.

The trial ended with a hung jury. The jury was out for five days, and over that time period, they sent three separate notes to the judge saying, we have fundamental differences, and we just can't agree on an outcome here.

And after the third time, the judge said, okay, I'm not going to force you to go

back and debate it some more. We're going to end it now. And she declared a mistrial. So a

mistrial essentially means that Karen Reed was neither convicted nor acquitted. And immediately,

after the mistrial was announced the prosecution the norfolk

county district attorney's office announced that hey we're going to retry her on the same charges

that we initially tried her on so tell us about the filing in which Reid's lawyer say, this is violating our double

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