Contrarian Boston’s Scott Van Voorhis has a fascinating interview with Jack Lu, a retired Massachusetts Superior Court judge and an adjunct professor at local law schools, who says the entire Karen Read case would have been over and done with by now if prosecutors hadn’t “overcharged” Karen Read with second-degree murder, rather than easier-to-prove manslaughter. … And you have to wonder if prosecutors did so because the case involved the death of a cop. … Check out Scott’s excellent newsletter.