BOSTON - The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has denied Karen Read's appeal to get some of the charges against her thrown out before her second criminal trial. Her defense argued before the highest court in the state last November that charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of personal injury and death should be dismissed.

Karen Read's lawyers have argued since July that she should not be retried for 2nd degree murder. But justices on the state's highest court disagreed.

DEDHAM, Mass. — A flurry of new filings in the Karen Read murder case were obtained Wednesday by Boston 25, one day after Massachusetts’ highest court ruled that the 44-year-old Mansfield woman can be retried on all three charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.