Karen Read filed an appeal with the state’s highest court after a judge last month denied a motion to dismiss two of three charges as a second trial looms in January. Read, 44, of Mansfield, was charged with the murder of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, 46. Her first trial ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury on July 1.

Karen Read’s attorneys have taken their argument that the murder charge against her be dropped all the way to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Karen Read says in an interview that her long-running murder case has left her “purgatory” and ”stressed every day."