‘America’s happiest murder defendant’ Karen Read spotted getting cozy with her married lawyer

Karen Read was filmed socialising with her married lawyer as a jury deliberated over whether she was guilty of murdering her police officer boyfriend.

Read, 44, and her attorney Alan Jackson, 59, were filmed huddling together outside the upscale Boston steakhouse Smith & Wollensky last week.

In the short clip, which has been shared online by several sources, Read can be seen laughing as Jackson grabs her breast.

The person who made the video told the New York Post the scene looked ‘wrong and inappropriate’.

They added: ‘It was just her lawyer, I don’t know what you would call it. It seemed inappropriate for an attorney-client situation.’

Jackson is a prominent Los Angeles attorney who acquitted disgraced actor Kevin Spacey of sexual assault charges. He married LA Deputy District Attorney Lisa Kassabian in 2011.

A judge declared a mistrial on Monday after jurors were unable to reach a verdict.

Read was accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, by hitting him with her SUV and leaving him in a snowstorm.

It marked the end of a nine-week, frenetic trial in which Read alleged she was the victim of a vast plot to frame her.

Prosecutors alleged that Read ran O’Keefe over to end their toxic relationship, then left him for dead in the snow.

On the night of O’Keefe’s death, he and Read were drinking with a group of friends at the Waterfall Bar and Grill in Canton, about 14 miles south of Boston. They were invited to an afterparty at his friend Brian Albert’s house.

Read, who prosecutors say had consumed several alcoholic drinks beforehand, decided to drop her boyfriend off at the party and then went to his house to sleep around 1 a.m., a home O’Keefe shared with his orphaned niece and nephew.

Court documents show the couple had been feuding violently for weeks, and on the night O’Keefe died, Read left him a voicemail message calling him a “f****** loser” and saying, “John, I f****** hate you.”

The couple had been dating for two years when O’Keefe died. He had worked for 16 years with the Boston Police Department.

According to Read’s version of events, she woke up at 4 a.m. to find that O’Keefe had never come home. She panicked and drove to look for him.

After finding O’Keefe’s body outside Albert’s home, which partygoers claimed he had never entered, emergency responders at the scene said Read repeatedly told them she had hit him while she was panicking.

Vehicle data also showed Read backing her SUV 62 feet at 24 mph near Albert’s home. O’Keefe’s cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma and hypothermia, with pieces of Read’s taillight found around his body, prosecutors said.

In his closing arguments Tuesday, Norfolk County Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally said the allegations that Read was framed were nothing more than “widespread speculation.”

Lally also pointed to hair and O’Keefe’s DNA found on the back of Read’s SUV.

The defense argued that Read broke the taillight when she panicked and found O’Keefe, who never returned home.

That included security footage shown during the trial that showed Read wrecking O’Keefe’s car as she backed out of her house to look for him.

Read claimed that attendees at the party beat him to death and her lawyers presented phone records showing that O’Keefe’s phone had climbed dozens of stairs when he was allegedly beaten.

Her lawyer, Alan Jackson, claimed that these steps could have been the basement of Albert’s home. Albert has never been charged with any wrongdoing.

Read’s lawyers added that while emergency responders claimed Read said at the scene that he had punched O’Keefe, they argued that this evidence was later false and not given at the time.

A forensic engineer was called in to review the case, and he stated that if O’Keefe had been hit by a vehicle at more than 20 mph, he would expect more serious injuries.

When her trial began, Read received an outpouring of support from true crime fans, who camped outside the courthouse with signs reading “Free Karen Read.”

Many took to wearing pink in support of Read, prompting a judge to issue an order banning all clothing and accessories that could be construed as encouragement, and banning them from coming within 200 feet of the courthouse.

While the trial made national headlines, some observers were irritated by Read’s seemingly nonchalant demeanor during the hearing, earning her the nickname “America’s luckiest murder suspect.”

She was seen inside the courthouse winking at the cameras and eating snacks, angering some critics.