A judge overseeing Karen Read's case will hear arguments on a recent motion by Read to recover more than $12,000 she spent to fly an expert to Massachusetts.

The Karen Read case returned to court Thursday for a hearing on several motions ahead of the April 1 trial date.

Karen Read returned to court Thursday to address several outstanding motions ahead of her highly anticipated retrial.

Judge Beverly Cannone made the decision Friday after hearing arguments on a prosecution motion to bar the expert, Richard Green, from testifying. Special prosecutor Hank Brennan had lobbied Cannone to set a hearing to examine Green’s credentials and methodology as part of the effort to bar Green from testifying.

A judge heard arguments Friday, Jan. 31, about whether to further examine the credibility of a digital forensics expert.

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

Special prosecutor Hank Brennan wrote that the government has the legal authority under a 2022 warrant to search the contents of Read’s phone, including its forensic data.

Several motions filed in the Karen Read case were discussed during a hearing Thursday. The Trump administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday.