A female billed with dripping grand court product pertaining to the Karen Read murder instance has actually begged guilty, the Division of Justice claimed Tuesday.
Jessica Leslie, 34, begged guilty in a Boston government court on Monday to a cost of criminal ridicule that implicated her of on purpose disobeying court policies versus disclosure of grand court details, the DOJ claimed.
Leslie had actually offered on the grand court as component of the examination right into Read, that was inevitably acquitted of murder in the 2022 fatality of her guy.
Federal district attorneys claimed that in between Aug. 11, 2022, and March 4, 2024, Leslie divulged “secured details to unapproved people, consisting of the names of different witnesses showing up prior to a government grand court, the material of witness testament and various other proof offered to the grand court.”
Leslie accepted a sentence of imprisonment for someday, regarded offered, and 24 months of monitored launch, court documents claimed. Her sentencing has actually been arranged for Sept. 26.
The murder retrial of Karen Read proceeds in Norfolk Superior Court, June 9, 2025.
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While the billing record did not define that Leslie was a grand juror in the Read instance, resources verified the instance to ABC Information.
Federal district attorneys did not state exactly how they found out Leslie had actually divulged secret grand court details, however resources claimed authorities had actually been keeping an eye on social media sites accounts and various other interactions throughout a situation that obtained extensive interest.
Review was initially arraigned by a Boston grand court in June 2022 in the fatality of her law enforcement agent guy John O’Keefe. District attorneys affirmed Read struck O’Keefe with her auto outside the home of a fellow law enforcement agent after an evening of hefty alcohol consumption in January 2022 and after that left him to pass away there throughout a significant snowstorm.
The very first test finished in a mistrial in 2015 after the court was incapable to get to a consentaneous decision.
In a 2nd test that finished in June, Read was discovered not guilty of one of the most major costs versus her– murder, homicide and leaving the scene after a crash. She was founded guilty of running intoxicated of alcohol and punished to one year of probation.
