The Brian Walshe homicide case was again in courtroom Wednesday with the accused assassin’s protection persevering with to combat for inner affairs and different information associated to the disgraced lead investigator Michael Proctor and extra state police they are saying will present “bias” towards their shopper.
“I think we should be entitled to his internal affairs report given the close proximity and the ongoing investigation that shows that Proctor, as well as some of his supervisors and perhaps some of his other colleagues, were under investigation at the time they were targeting, or eventually targeted. Mr. Walshe,” mentioned protection lawyer Larry Tipton.
Walshe, 49, of Cohasset, is accused of murdering his spouse Ana Walshe, dismembering her physique on New Years 2023 and hiding it in dumpsters round Better Boston. Choose Diana Freniere set Walshe’s trial to start in late October 2025 at a December listening to.
The listening to Wednesday happened in Middlesex Superior Court docket, although the case relies in Norfolk Superior Court docket.
The listening to centered across the protection’s request for information associated to misconduct by Proctor and different Massachusetts State Police investigators within the high-profile Karen Learn case. Offensive texts from Proctor — calling Learn a “whack job” and “babe,” referring to searching for “nudes” whereas looking out her cellphone, and writing “hopefully she kills herself” — and a federal investigation into the State Police’s case got here to mild through the investigation and trial.
Proctor is ready to face State Police Trial Board to find out disciplinary motion following a inner affairs investigation into his conduct through the Learn case. The State Police Trooper was relieved of responsibility and suspended with out pay shortly after the Learn trial.
The prosecution within the Walshe case mentioned Wednesday they don’t anticipate calling Proctor, in addition to two different officers concerned in each case Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik and Lt. Brian Tully, as a witness through the trial.
“The point is that the defendant, has a right to show that the investigation has flaws in it,” mentioned Tipton, arguing the Commonwealth shouldn’t be calling Proctor not due to his work on the case, however due to his broken popularity associated to “professional misconduct.”
The protection mentioned they consider the inner affairs information will present “evidence of bias” in how the officers dealt with the Walshe case, like how they dealt with the Learn case.
The decide pushed the protection to exhibit extra proof that the information will probably be pertinent to the Walshe case, granting the protection extra time to take action.
“It seems to me what you’re saying is that, by virtue of the misconduct that’s been publicly reported or you received in discovery on the Reed case, that alone stands as a basis for the MSP targeting every defendant,” Freniere questioned the protection. “What is it about this fellow? What information do you have in this case that is any indicia that there was such a bias?”
The case returns to courtroom on Feb. 14 to proceed arguments associated to the police information, in addition to DNA proof.
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