Judge Beverly Cannone reconsidered an order requiring a reporter to turn over off-the-record notes from an interview with Karen Read.

The judge has decided a journalist won't have to turn over "off-the-record" notes from an interview with Karen Read to prosecutors.

A judge handling the Karen Read case overturned a previous ruling requiring a Boston Magazine journalist to hand over off-the-record interview notes.

The Boston Magazine journalist who wrote a long-form piece on the Karen Read murder case will not be required to turn over her handwritten notes of an “off-the-record” interview conducted with the

Judge Beverly Cannone made the decision Friday after hearing arguments on a prosecution motion to bar the expert, Richard Green, from testifying. Special prosecutor Hank Brennan had lobbied Cannone to set a hearing to examine Green’s credentials and methodology as part of the effort to bar Green from testifying.