Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman acquitted of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend, sued witnesses from her trial, claiming she was framed for the crime and that local law enforcement allowed the scheme by “intentionally sidestepping fundamental investigatory procedures.” Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

An Illinois attorney says he was set up to be charged with his wife’s murder by a local police department and the state’s attorney’s office where he used to work, claiming in a federal complaint that the charges for which he was acquitted wrecked his law practice and forced him to skip town. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))