Karen Read prosecutors say that the trial judge did not err in declaring a mistrial and that “there was no meaningful alternative” to her decision in their response to her SJC appeal seeking to

Prosecutors called on the highest court in Massachusetts not to support dropping two charges against Karen Read who is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend based.

The filing by the civil liberties group’s chapter in Massachusetts comes as the Supreme Judicial Court prepares to hear arguments about the result of a trial that captured local and national headlines for months earlier this year.

The ACLU has jumped into the Karen Read Supreme Judicial Court fight on the side of the accused murderer. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a brief in Read’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court to have two of the three charges against her — including second-degree murder — dropped in her second trial scheduled for January.

The trial court had a clear path to avoid an erroneous mistrial: simply ask the jurors to confirm whether a verdict had been reached on any count,” the ACLU wrote.