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 murder case has garnered immense public attention. The Supreme Judicial Court "[couldn't] care less," one expert said.

The ruling clears the way for the Commonwealth to prosecute Read on all three charges of second-degree murder, leaving the scene of a crash, and manslaughter come retrial in April.