Read is accused of striking John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die alone in a blizzard outside of a house party in Canton.

Jurors in the Karen Read trial asked four questions to Judge Beverly Cannone Tuesday, with one indicating they may be facing the possibility of a hung jury on one of the charges. Around 1:30 p.m., Cannone read the fourth question from the jurors,

The same issue arose at Read’s first trial: multiple jurors, in the wake of Cannone declaring a mistrial, reported to Read’s defense that they agreed to acquit her on two of the three counts, but they didn’t know they could return a partial verdict. That led to a lengthy appeals fight that was appealed to but not taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lawyers in Karen Read’s murder retrial were called back into court on Tuesday morning after deliberating jurors came forward with questions about evidence in the case and a verdict slip.

Those charges never should have been brought forward,” Aidan Kearney said Tuesday outside Norfolk Superior Court, where he was covering jury deliberations in the Karen Read trial.

One verdict is already declared in the Karen Read murder case: The Massachusetts State Police are guilty in the first degree of dereliction of duty.