Jurors deliberated for about two hours on Friday before being sent home for the weekend. They start again Monday.

It was Jan. 30, 2022, one day after a police officer named John O’Keefe had been found abandoned in the snow. A spokesman for the Norfolk District Attorney’s office sent an email to a reporter, the first to write a Globe story on a case that would become so big, even the courtroom ceiling fan would have its own handle on X — two, actually.

The jury in the Karen Read trial heard drastically different closing arguments Friday before deliberations began.

Karen Read's fate in jurors' hands following month-long retrial with dramatic dashcam footage, expert testimony challenging vehicle collision theory, and powerful closing arguments.

Read flashed the sinister smirk as graphic images of John O’Keefe’s bruised and mangled body were revealed to the jury.

Karen Read proposed that she personally select which of the jurors would serve as alternates in her murder trial — an idea the judge denied.

Jurors begin deliberations in Karen Read's second murder trial after Friday's closing arguments and judicial instructions from Judge Beverly Cannone.