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Baffled by Why Karen Read Was Acquitted?

Baffled by Why Karen Read Was Acquitted?

There might be at least one easy answer

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Jun 23, 2025
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By Jayson Blair

If you are baffled by the jury verdict in the Karen Read trial, let me take you back to 1997 in the newsroom of the Boston Globe. I was a reporter on the Metropolitan Desk, and that summer, two huge news stories collided, planting seeds of mistrust that still reverberate in the Boston area today.

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