Ms. Read will receive the dignity and fairness that every defendant deserves in our criminal justice system,” Hank Brennan said Wednesday.

Prominent Boston attorney Hank Brennan said he will prosecute the Read case "meticulously, ethically, and zealously, without compromise.”

A Massachusetts district attorney has appointed a special prosecutor, who has represented “Whitey” Bulger and other prominent clients in the past, to take on the Karen Read murder case.