A judge will hear arguments today about whether a digital forensics expert should be about the testify in the the retrial of Karen Read.

The judge in the Karen Read murder case says she’ll decide without a hearing whether the defense will maintain its digital forensics expert who has testified the controversial “hos long to

Lawyers for Karen Read on Tuesday filed their opposition to a prosecution motion to bar a defense expert who testified during the first trial about the timing of Google searches from making similar assertions during the retrial.

The judge in the Karen Read murder case will consider a motion at a hearing on Friday. Read is facing a second trial for allegedly killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe. The retrial comes after the first trial ended in a mistrial.