Attorneys defending Karen Learn in a civil go well with by the household of John O’Keefe are demanding a variety of paperwork involving her felony case from state prosecutors to the Massachusetts State Police to federal companies.
Subpoenas filed within the civil motion demand “All documents, communications, audio or video recordings, or other data or items of any kind relating in any way to the investigation and prosecution of Karen Read” and “to the death of John J. O’Keefe, III or any investigation into his death” in addition to a big selection of associated supplies be turned over to Learn’s legal professional’s workplace by Wednesday at 10 a.m.
The request targets the Norfolk District Lawyer’s workplace, which prosecuted Learn for the homicide of O’Keefe, a Boston Police officer she had dated for about two years earlier than his dying on Jan. 29, 2022.
Jurors earlier this summer time acquitted Learn of all felony prices, together with homicide, apart from the least critical they might take into account: drunken driving.
The tip of her felony trial meant that the civil motion filed by the O’Keefe household towards her may resume.
The subpoenas go a lot additional than the Norfolk DA’s workplace, nevertheless, and in addition goal any supplies held by the State Police, who investigated O’Keefe’s dying, and from federal companies together with the FBI and the Division of Justice — that means its native arm, the Boston U.S. Lawyer’s workplace — which had a hand in probing that investigation.
The calls for additionally goal people affiliated with these companies, together with case investigators MSP Trooper Yuriy Bukhenik and fired Trooper Michael Proctor. Proctor was placed on depart instantly after Learn’s first trial resulted in mistrial final 12 months and was fired earlier than her second trial obtained began this April, nearly solely to sustained allegations of unprofessional conduct in the course of the O’Keefe investigation.
The MSP inquiry that led to his firing discovered that he had shared detrimental private opinions of Learn from early in his investigation and even shared categorised investigatory info on the case with these not entitled to it. Simply weeks in the past, protection attorneys in a number of instances involving Proctor had been informed that the Norfolk DA had a cache of iCloud info from his work and private telephones and that it will be deleted.
These attorneys, who declare they had been blindsided by the disclosure this info existed, then sought and gained an emergency month-long extension of its scheduled deletion, arguing the trove may comprise supplies that might present an identical bias towards their very own shoppers.
Learn’s civil go well with attorneys likewise need their palms on that info.
“For the avoidance of doubt, this Subpoena demands that you maintain and do not delete, discard, or otherwise destroy and portion of Michael Proctor’s iCloud or other data that you have in your current possession, custody, or control, including but not limited to, the data subject to a federal court protective order, which you previously agreed at a hearing before the Norfolk Superior Court to maintain until July 25, 2025,” a subpoena doc states.
The subpoena additionally requests “All documents and communication with FBI, DOJ, or MSP” relating to the instances of Sandra Birchmore, Brian Walshe and Myles King, all of whom are associated to instances investigated by the Norfolk contingent of MSP investigators.
Federal prosecutors say Birchmore was killed in her Canton condominium by then-Stoughton cop Matthew Farwell, who prosecutors say groomed the youthful girl since she was a baby, impregnated her after which killed her.
Walshe is accused of murdering his spouse, Ana Walshe, at their Cohasset dwelling on Jan. 1, 2023.
Myles King is accused of taking pictures to dying Marquis Simmons, 25, outdoors his mom’s dwelling on Belvoir Street in Milton a bit earlier than 6 p.m. on July 10, 2021.
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