The prosecutor within the Karen Learn homicide case is looking for communications between the defendant and her lawyer David Yannetti and says that the defendant has “waived her attorney-client privilege.”
“In this case the privilege holder, the defendant, has clearly and intentionally waived her attorney-client privilege regarding specific conversations she had with Attorney Yannetti regarding the collision between her vehicle and John O’Keefe,” particular prosecutor Hank Brennan wrote in a Thursday night submitting.
Learn, 45, is accused of hanging O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years and a 16-year Boston Police officer, along with her automobile and leaving him to die in a significant snowstorm on the entrance garden of 34 Fairview Rd., in Canton.
She was tried final 12 months on the fees of second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas working a motorcar beneath the affect and leaving the scene of a deadly accident, however that resulted in a mistrial. She is scheduled to be retried starting on April 1.
Brennan on this submitting mentioned he’s looking for “all texts, emails, or written communications” between Learn and Yannetti between Jan. 29, 2022 — the day of O’Keefe’s dying — and Feb. 2, 2022.
“The defendant voluntarily and intentionally disclosed the existence of these communications and her initial thoughts about her culpability for causing the death of John O’Keefe during various public interviews,” Brennan argues. “The communications, confirmed by the defendant to exist, are no longer privileged, nor confidential because the defendant chose to widely and publicly disseminate them.”
Brennan backs up his argument by citing particular quotes from the Boston Journal interview Learn did with reporter Gretchen Voss, a Vainness Truthful article and the five-part documentary that aired these previous Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights on the community Investigation Discovery — stylized as ID — and the MAX streaming service formally referred to as HBO MAX.
Full disclosure: this reporter is featured in interviews within the docuseries.
Brennan, as he has accomplished for earlier Learn interviews, additionally filed for “all unedited video and audio recordings in the possession of Unsolved Productions, Inc. and producer Terry Meurer” for the ID and MAX documentary collection, which known as “A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read.”
In his Thursday request, Brennan argues that Meurer “has described in media interviews, that the access to the defendant and her defense team was ‘unprecedent.’”
“As part of this docuseries, the defendant and her counsel permitted cameras to record their trial preparation sessions in the ‘war room’; the car rides to and from court where the defendent and her counsels discuss upcoming testimonies and trial strategies, often commenting on the evidence, prosecutor, or the court; and one-on-one interviews with the defendant, and defense counsels,” Brennan wrote.
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