The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began.

The Boston-area woman was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend in 2022. The jury was dismissed for the weekend and will resume on Monday.

Hundreds of people formed a sea of pink —  the color Read’s defenders have taken up to show their allegiance — around the Norfolk County Supreme Courthouse in Dedham, where some fans held a

Jurors, including six alternates, heard blistering closing arguments from Read's defense who argued that the case "was corrupted from the start," while the government insisted she hit her boyfriend Jo

Karen Read proposed that she personally select which of the jurors would serve as alternates in her murder trial — an idea the judge denied.

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After nearly eight weeks of testimony, Massachusetts prosecutors and defense attorneys for Karen Read are presenting their closing arguments in her retrial for the death of John O’Keefe, offering jurors dueling narratives about how the off-duty Boston cop died in January 2022.