The judge in the Karen Read murder case says she’ll decide without a hearing whether the defense will maintain its digital forensics expert who has testified the controversial “hos long to

Read is accused of killing O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend and a Braintree native. Judge Beverly Cannone approved a joint motion last month from the defense and prosecution seeking to have the second trial pushed back to April 1,

Lawyers for Karen Read on Tuesday filed their opposition to a prosecution motion to bar a defense expert who testified during the first trial about the timing of Google searches from making similar assertions during the retrial.

The Karen Read case is back in court Friday as more motions are expected to be heard ahead of her second murder trial.

The judge in the Karen Read murder case will consider a motion at a hearing on Friday. Read is facing a second trial for allegedly killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe. The retrial comes after the first trial ended in a mistrial.