The unit chief of the Massachusetts State Police unit that investigated the John O’Keefe trial will proceed his testimony at present, the twenty fourth day of the Karen Learn homicide trial.
Lt. Brian Tully, the commander of the MSP detective unit stationed on the Norfolk DA’s workplace, took the stand on the finish of the trial day yesterday, following a prolonged cross-examination and shorter redirect examination of considered one of his investigators, Trooper Michael Proctor.
Tully supplied an outline of the make-up of the MSP, how they conduct murder investigations and the significance of determinations as to reason behind loss of life made by the state Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner. However he additionally stated that he had “admonished,” the phrase prosecutor Adam Lally selected in his query, Proctor for a collection of personal texts the trooper despatched throughout the investigation. Tully stated he additionally took the problem up his chain of command.
Proctor, who served because the “case officer” for the O’Keefe murder had early on within the investigation despatched a collection of what he has repeatedly admitted to being “inappropriate,” “juvenile and regrettable” feedback in texts to his mates and even co-workers about Learn throughout his investigation.
Learn, 44, of Mansfield, faces expenses of second-degree homicide, motorcar manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting the loss of life of O’Keefe, her boyfriend and a 16-year Boston Police officer when he died at age 46 within the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022. His physique was discovered within the entrance yard of 34 Fairview Highway in Canton.
The feedback embody calling her a “babe” and “whack job” in addition to extra offensive language, together with a derogatory phrase starting with “c” that refers to girls’s genitalia. He additionally repeatedly made crude remarks a couple of gastrointestinal situation Learn suffers.
Tully in his testimony additionally went over the start phases of his workplace’s investigation.
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