In a stunning motion, Karen Read’s attorneys claim jurors have told them they agreed 12-0 that the Mansfield woman was not guilty of second-degree murder — it was “off the table” — but they were split on OUI vehicular manslaughter.

The Massachusetts State Police lead investigator in the Karen Read case has been suspended without pay following a duty status hearing on Monday.

Lawyers for Karen Read are asking the judge to dismiss the murder charge against her, alleging the deadlocked jury had, in fact, unanimously decided to acquit her of second-degree murder […]

Defense lawyers for Karen Read say jurors unanimously concluded she was not guilty of murder or leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and were deadlocked on the remaining manslaughter charge before a mistrial was declared.

Read's defense attorneys Monday filed a motion seeking to dismiss two charges in the case and said the jury had agreed unanimously that Read was not guilty of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident with injury or death. Attorney Alan Jackson wrote that a retrial on such counts would violate double jeopardy protections.

Karen Read's​ defense attorneys Alan Jackson and David Yannetti claim in a new court filing that the jury in the high-profile Massachusetts murder trial was in unanimous agreement on two of the charges.

Karen Read's defense is arguing that two charges should be dismissed in her high-profile murder case. They argue that members of the jury were going to acquit her on those charges but were deadlocked on a third when the mistrial was declared.

Judge Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial on July 1 after jurors said they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.

The 44-year-old’s case unraveled last week after the jury deadlocked. Her lawyers are now accusing the judge of declaring a mistrial without questioning the jurors further.