The new prosecutor in Karen Learn’s homicide case is now after each the defendant’s mother and father’ cellular phone data.
“[I]t is evident from the defendant’s phone records that phone calls between the defendant and (the phone number) belonging to Janet Read, were made on January 29, 2022, during a time after the Commonwealth alleges that the defendant had struck and left the victim to die in blizzard conditions, but before the victim was located under the snow,” particular prosecutor Hank Brennan wrote in an affidavit supporting his new movement for the Verizon cellphone data.
Brennan’s request for Janet Learn’s cellphone data follows an analogous request final month for the cellphone data of William Learn, and with an analogous supporting argument.
Brennan additionally filed requests for the unedited and full footage of interviews Learn sat for with ABC, broadcast on its Boston affiliate WCVB-TV, and NBC, broadcast on its Boston affiliate NBC10. It follows an analogous request for supplies from Boston 25 Information filed final month.
All of it got here in a flurry of motions Brennan has filed for the reason that sides final met in court docket on Wednesday for the primary time for the reason that summer time.
At that assembly, Norfolk Superior Court docket Decide Beverly J. Cannone heard arguments to delay the trial till April, which either side need; the prosecution’s request to carry out a doubtlessly harmful new take a look at on the chips in Learn’s Lexus SUV’s infotainment system; a prosecution request for a listening to to problem a protection professional on canine bites; and a protection request for entry to the transcripts of the non-public sidebar conversations throughout Learn’s first trial, which ended with a hung jury and a declaration of mistrial.
Cannone has but to rule on a trial date extension. She allowed transcripts of the sidebar conversations to be accessible to attorneys for trial preparation however didn’t make them public file. She scheduled a December listening to date for a “Daubert” problem of protection professional Dr. Marie Russell. She allowed prosecution testing of the Lexus chips with protection professional monitoring.
The protection has filed a movement difficult Brennan’s request for William Learn’s cellphone data, calling the request “a fishing expedition, and an inappropriate attempt to invade Mr. Read’s privacy.”
Brennan makes an attempt to move off any such arguments in his new request for Janet Learn’s data by stating outright that “The Commonwealth’s motion is not a fishing expedition” earlier than pointing to the proof of calls between the 2 ladies following Karen Learn’s alleged vehicular homicide of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, that early January 2022 morning.
Learn, 44, of Mansfield, was charged in Norfolk Superior Court docket on June 9, 2022, with second-degree homicide, motorcar manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting dying.
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Particular Prosecutor Hank Brennan, left, makes a observe in court docket as trial prosecutors Adam Lally and Laura McLaughlin look on throughout a listening to earlier this month. (Greg Derr/Pool)
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