Karen Read’s second murder trial is headed into its first weekend without a fully seated jury after the court spent days vetting dozens of candidates, many of whom were already aware of the high-profile case after her first trial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe ended in a mistrial.

Judge Beverly Cannone cut the parties loose around 4:30 p.m. Friday after four days of jury selection, which began on Tuesday with dozens of potential jurors telling the court they had already heard about the case and formulated opinions.

Ten jurors have been selected out of an expected total of 16, 12 to deliberate and another four alternates. The process resumes Monday morning.

Jury selection is expected to be a crucial aspect of the trial after the first highly publicized event ended with jurors deadlocked and no verdict.

As a result, he expects both sides to take their time with the process.

“The jury selection process in a case like this takes a very long time because you have to carefully exclude jurors who might have a subtle bias or opinion that causes that juror to be undesirable,” he told Fox News Digital.

“I do not think a break for the weekend matters very much. It’s much more important to ensure that the jury selection is thorough.”