The Karen Read case was heard again in court on Tuesday at a hearing that considered a number of requests, including requests from the Commonwealth for phone records and media materials.

Read is accused of using her SUV to ram John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, leaving him to die in a snowstorm in January 2022. Keefe’s death.

In June, a judge declared the trial invalid after finding that the jury could not reach an agreement. A retrial on the same charge is scheduled to begin in January.

Prosecutors said Read, a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, and O’Keefe, a 16-year employee of the Boston Police Department, drank heavily before dropping him off at a party at the home of Brian Albert, a Boston colleague would have. They said she hit him with her SUV before driving away. An autopsy revealed that O’Keefe died of hypothermia and blunt force trauma.

The defense portrayed Read as a victim, saying O’Keefe was actually killed in Albert’s house and then dragged outside. They argued that investigators focused on Read because she was a “convenient outsider” who protected them from having to view police officers as suspects.

The discovery hearing in Norfolk Superior Court addressed several motions and exhibits that would impact Read’s new trial. Prosecutors have requested phone records from Read’s mother and father, saying those records are intended to show Read’s regular call patterns to her parents. The request is based on the Commonwealth’s belief that Read called her parents around 1:30 a.m. the day O’Keefe was found.

“The interference is strong evidence that Ms. Read knew that she had done something terrible, that she had hit John O’Keefe and that she had left him behind,” argued attorney Hank Brennan.

The defense rejected that request, arguing that prosecutors should get the information they need from previously released records from Read’s phone, calling the request a “fishing expedition.”

The Commonwealth is also seeking materials from several media outlets, including Boston Magazine, WCVB-TV, WFXT-TV and NBC10 Boston. These inquiries, Brennan claims, are intended to prove that Read has made contradictory statements in media interviews.

“Isn’t it amazing that ABC, NBC, Boston Magazine and FOX all attended the alleged confession and never published it?” Read quipped as she left court. “This is a fishing expedition, that doesn’t exist.”

While the Commonwealth’s requests took up most of the time, Judge Beverly Cannone also sought updates on other matters, including the defense team’s request for emails and cellphone records from Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey. These records are still being compiled. The defense is seeking data from both personal and work devices, arguing that Morrissey used his personal phone to communicate with court officials.

“We clearly have reason not to trust Mr. Morrissey given his actions in using this personal email account for these ex parte communications, and we ask that a more thorough search be carried out into these types of communications “said attorney David Yanetti.

The attorneys also provided updated timelines for planned testing of telematics in Read’s SUV to be conducted the first week of December, as well as transcripts of sideline discussions from the first trial.

Cannone accepted the applications under consultation. It has not yet ruled on a joint request from the Commonwealth and the defense to delay the start of the new trial from late January to April 1.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.