BOSTON - The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has denied Karen Read's appeal to get some of the charges against her thrown out before her second criminal trial. Her defense argued before the highest court in the state last November that charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of personal injury and death should be dismissed.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will issue its ruling in Karen Read’s appeal asking that her murder charge be dropped.

Read’s attorneys had asked the state’s highest court to throw out two charges — second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident— on double jeopardy grounds.