A lawyer who represented Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger will prosecute Karen Read, whose murder trial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend ended with a hung jury, when the case is retried,

Now, all these years later, Hank Brennan returns to the limelight, not as a defense lawyer, but as a special prosecutor of Karen Read, who has already endured one sham trial and now faces a second

Ms. Read will receive the dignity and fairness that every defendant deserves in our criminal justice system,” Hank Brennan said Wednesday.