Professional-Karen Learn blogger Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney acquired what he requested for at his final listening to: a full “bill of particulars” on what he’s charged with and telephone data pertaining to lacking and presumably deleted textual content messages of an ex-girlfriend accusing him of intimidation.
“We look forward to getting to the bottom of the issue regarding the missing text messages. We were confident the judge would see the relevance and importance of going to a third-party for an objective determination of what evidence would be there,” Kearney’s protection lawyer Timothy Bradl advised the Herald.
“Likewise, it was very gratifying that the court required the Commonwealth to honor its agreement to actually specify, in a substantive response to our motion for a bill of particulars, what journalistic activity now constitutes a crime in Norfolk County under the (DA Michael) Morrissey administration,” he continued.
Kearney, 42, of Holden, faces indictments on eight felony counts of witness intimidation and eight misdemeanor counts — 5 of picketing witnesses and three of “conspiracy” — associated to the Learn homicide case. Kearney has coated the case and trial from a pro-Learn perspective on his weblog, TB Every day Information, in addition to an assortment of social media accounts below the “Turtleboy” model.
Learn is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, by placing him along with her automobile after an evening out in Canton in late January 2022. Her authentic trial led to mistrial on July 1 and a recent trial date was scheduled for Jan. 27.
Kearney additionally faces one other witness intimidation cost in addition to an unlawful wiretapping cost associated to an alleged Christmas Eve 2023 incident with an ex-girlfriend. On Friday, Superior Court docket Choose Michael A. Cahillane filed rulings relating to each circumstances.
In a July 11 listening to, Bradl argued that prosecutors had been for no motive making an attempt to forestall the protection from acquiring cellular phone data to see what messages the accuser could have deleted, with Bradl indicating that the content material of these texts in addition to their recipients may have standing for the protection.
Bradl filed a movement for a Invoice of Particulars — wherein prosecutors should spell out precisely what crimes Kearney is accused of doing and to whom — for the first witness intimidation case on Feb. 23. Prosecutors filed the Invoice on the due date: June 13, however the protection discovered it, within the phrases of Cahillane’s order, “insufficient.”
“(T)he Commonwealth’s bill of particulars falls short in advising the defendant, and the court, of the time and place, manner and means of the defendant’s conduct for each of the alleged incidents,” Cahillane wrote in his order, which was dated the day after the July 11 listening to. “Therefore, the Commonwealth is ORDERED to supplement its bill of particulars no later than Friday, August 1, 2024.”
Juror’s fears
Kearney was again within the information since his final courtroom look, as a juror within the Learn homicide trial implicated him and his followers — although not by identify — of instilling worry of “personal harm.” The unidentified juror’s affidavit was filed in help of a movement to indefinitely impound the jury listing — which Learn case Choose Beverly Cannone authorized.
“The blogger who has been charged with witness intimidation has characterized any jurors who did not vote to acquit the defendant as ‘idiots’ who ‘helped cover up a murder. … This accusation is of course absurd, but it is noteworthy because the blogger has demonstrated how he treats those whom he believes ‘cover up murder,’” the juror’s lawyer Andrew DiCenzo of Worcester agency Christopher Hays, Wojcik & Mavricos LLP wrote within the movement.
“He has been accused of, and essentially admits to, harassing witnesses and has made statements to the effect of, ‘murders and those who cover for them, do not deserve to live a comfortable life,’” the memo continued. “The blogger has gleefully admitted to obtaining a public jury list in a different criminal case and ‘shaming’ the juror who did not deliberate in the manner he preferred.”
Kearney expressed in a press release to the Herald that the police and prosecutors are biased on this case and don’t keep in mind his personal liberty and security. He mentioned that members of the Albert household — the Canton household on the coronary heart of the Learn protection’s declare of a third-party killer conspiracy — have threatened him.
“All of this was filmed and shown to police, and to this day no criminal charges have been filed,” he wrote by his lawyer. “Someone killed a turtle and hung it from my parents’ house two days after my mother died. Men with guns came to my house, arrested me in front of my kid’s school bus, and stole my phones and computers.”
“Supporters of Karen Read in Canton are constantly harassed, intimidated, and have had their property vandalized,” he continued. “ALL of the ‘intimidation’ in this case comes from their side. Yet Judge Cannone and the Commonwealth want to push the false narrative that I am a threat to this unnamed juror, who sounds like they were coached by the Commonwealth to push these lies about me being dangerous.”
