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.

The jury started to deliberate shortly after 2:30 p.m. Friday and were sent home two hours later. Deliberations will resume Monday morning.

During closing arguments, prosecutors said they’ve shown Karen Read killed her boyfriend when she hit him with her car after a night of drinking. Read’s defense team says there was no collision, and that the investigation into O’Keefe’s death was flawed from the start.

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

It took eight weeks and dozens of witnesses, but on Friday, Karen Read's retrial shifted to its most critical phase: jury deliberations.

Stay up to date with the Fox News True Crime Newsletter, which brings you the latest cases ripped from the headlines, from crime to courts, legal and scandal.

Jury deliberations in the Karen Read retrial began Friday after weeks of testimony in the high-profile murder case that centered on the prosecution's theory of a rocky relationship that turned fatal and the defense's claim of a police cover-up.