No court proceedings are scheduled through Memorial Day in the Karen Read trial as the judge said things are moving ahead of schedule. Read is accused of hitting and killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe,

Miami neurosurgeon Dr. Aizik L. Wolf told jurors a fall backward was “the only way” O’Keefe could have sustained his fatal head injuries.

Karen Read pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe and is facing a retrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict last year.

Watch “Canton Confidential” in the video player atop this story at 7 p.m. The Karen Read murder retrial is on hiatus until after Memorial Day at an apparent turning point, with the prosecution winding down and the defense gearing up to present its case.

A Miami-based neurosurgeon took the stand to describe John O'Keefe's head injuries in the Karen Read retrial on Wednesday.

Karen Read's lawyers say she was framed for the death of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, in a conspiracy devised by Massachusetts cops.

John O’Keefe died from falling backwards and hitting his head on frozen ground, according to a Yale-educated brain surgeon who testified Wednesday in the murder trial of Karen Read.

A neurosurgeon told jurors in the Karen Read murder trial that the injuries that killed John O’Keefe came from falling back and hitting the ground. “What we’re seeing is an approximate inch and a half laceration with bridging tissue and contusions and abrasions,