After nearly eight weeks of testimony, jury deliberations began in the retrial of Karen Read for the death of John O’Keefe, following closing arguments from Massachusetts prosecutors and defense attorneys presenting competing narratives about how the off-duty Boston cop died in January 2022.

More than three of four Boston Herald readers who have participated in our poll would vote “Not guilty” if they were on the Karen Read retrial jury.

The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began.

Karen Read, accused of killing Boston police officer John O’Keefe, will not testify in her retrial, which could go to the jury by Friday. Experts have disputed the collision theory and cause of death,