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 say there’s no basis for dismissing the charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of the accident, arguing that the state’s retrial cannot be double jeopardy.

Prosecutors in the Karen Read legal saga on Wednesday filed their brief with the state’s highest court urging the panel to reject her request to have the second-degree murder and leaving the scene charges dismissed against her in the high-profile case.