The Norfolk DA’s workplace has dropped an intimidation cost towards Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney, an activist blogger within the Karen Learn case.
DA Michael Morrissey’s workplace filed the “Nolle Prosequi” movement Wednesday in Norfolk Superior Courtroom.
“This afternoon, the Norfolk District Attorney filed a Nolle Prosequi in Norfolk Superior Court on Criminal Docket 2482CR00043,” the DA’s workplace mentioned in an announcement.
The docket for the case, which accused Kearney of witness intimidation and unlawful wiretapping, is now closed.
Kearney reacted to the transfer on social media, sharing the court docket doc dropping the case underneath the heading, “Things that didn’t age well.”
Two further circumstances towards Kearney stay lively.
“The remaining two dockets against Adian (sic) Kearney continue to be prosecuted by Special Prosecutor Robert Cosgrove,” Morrissey’s workplace mentioned within the assertion.
The court docket allowed Cosgrove to withdraw from the case final month in gentle of a lawsuit filed by the sufferer towards Kearney, in line with WCVB.
Kearney, 43, faces a number of prices of witness intimidation and picketing jurors or court docket officers associated to his activism within the Karen Learn case. Two counts of witness intimidation, three counts of conspiracy and a rely of picketing had been beforehand dismissed after he was indicted in December 2023.
Learn, 45, was acquitted in June in a retrial of three prices associated to the killing of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, on Jan. 29, 2022. The jury convicted her of solely drunken driving. Learn’s first trial, which garnered worldwide consideration, ended with a hung jury and mistrial in July 2024.
