Attorneys in Karen Read’s murder retrial met with Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone on Thursday to discuss instructions for the jury ahead of closing arguments. Read, 45, of Mansfield, is accused of striking John O’Keefe,

Arguing the motion, David Yannetti, a lawyer for Read, said the two witnesses the defense called from ARCCA, an accident reconstruction expert and a biomechanical engineer, “drove a stake through the heart of the commonwealth’s case.” “These indictments cannot stand,” he said.