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I'm Rebecca Lavoie. I'm Hannah McCarthy. I'm Nick Cappadice. And this is Civics 101.

I'm Vinipolitan. The subject of my investigation is the death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe and the dramatic retrial of his girlfriend, Karen Reed.

So today we're going to be talking about a high-profile trial. Defendant, not guilty or guilty?

So say you, Mr. Flore?

So say you all.

Apologize in advance for listeners who might be tired of hearing about this topic, but I promise it will be relevant to this show.

Nick, what do you know about the Karen read trial?

Rebecca, I know so little about the Karen retrial.

I do know it involves the police and it happened in Massachusetts.

And it's kind of bonkers, like stuff just all over the police. Uh-huh. And it happened in Massachusetts. Uh-huh. And it's kind of bonkers.

Like stuff just all over the place.

Yes.

And it just kind of happened, didn't it?

It just kind of happened, yes.

Karen Reed was just acquitted on most of the charges against her just a couple weeks ago in June.

What do you know, Hannah?

I know more.

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