Karen Read retrial kicks off with wire-to-wire drama, lawyers brawl in tense hearing after jurors sent home

Karen Read's retrial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe kicked off Tuesday with expected fireworks almost immediately – and they continued after Judge Beverly Cannone sent jurors home for the day with a heated hearing on late discovery disclosures.

Both sides painted entirely different versions of events as they delivered their opening statements to the jury, but after the panel left for the day, Cannone called for a new hearing Friday and accused the defense of violating one of her orders on reciprocal discovery.