Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone ruled this morning that Read’s defense team had not been entirely open and truthful about its dealings with two witnesses from last year’s trial.

The judge in the Karen Read case admonished the defense team on Tuesday for "repeated misrepresentations" to the court, but did not remove any lawyers with less than a month to go before her second trial is supposed to start.

Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone admonished Karen Read’s legal team on Tuesday for “repeated misrepresentations” in front of the court, two weeks before the Mansfield woman’s second murder trial is slated to start.