Jury selection has begun in the retrial of Karen Read, less than a year after a judge declared a mistrial on charges that she was responsible for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

Selecting an unbiased jury in a criminal case is always a tricky process. But that task will be particularly difficult Tuesday in the second murder trial of Karen Read.

Jury selection for Karen Read’s second murder trial began on Tuesday. Read is accused of ramming into her then-boyfriend, John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowstorm back in January 2022.

Last year, the judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they were at an impasse and that deliberating further would be futile.

Karen Read faces the same charges she did in her first trial: second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision that caused injury and death.

From Karen Read herself to the investigators to the experts, these people will be critical to Read's second trial.

Karen Read's second trial in the death of John O'Keefe begins Tuesday. Here's what you can listen to and watch to catch up on the case.

One of those differences will be in how Read's team of attorneys can go about defending her. She is charged with backing into her boyfriend, John O'Keefe — a Boston police offic