Aidan Kearney, who has championed Read’s claims of innocence while being charged with harassing and intimidating witnesses in her case, could testify at her retrial.

Karen Read‘s attempt to have a federal court intervene in her closely watched Massachusetts murder case before her upcoming retrial was denied on Thursday. A federal judge denied her request to throw out two charges brought against her in the death of her boyfriend,

"There is no longer any federal investigation of John O’Keefe’s death or any related matters," special prosecutor Hank Brennan said. "It is closed. It is over.”