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The special prosecutor Hank Brennan may have dulled the effects of inappropriate text messages. The main murder detective that regarding the detective of the main murder in terms of Karen read Days before it was charged with murder to John O’keefe – but they still damage the case of the state and not just because he used vulgar and obscene language, experts say.
The texts were a bomb that blew up the first legal proceedings when they were read at the witness stand with Michael Proctor, and it ended with a crashed jury last year. This time the prosecutors decided not to call him a witness, and it was his friend from childhood, Jonathan Diamandis, who – visibly uncomfortably – led the jury through the conversation.
Apart from the blatant comments to read, experts say that fewer explosive messages about Proctors early opinions could be condemned.
“Proctor beg mentally [the defense] to call him, “retired Supreme Court of Massachusetts The judge and the legal professor of Boston College, Professor Jack Lu, told Fox News Digital. “Now that the texts are available, you will not call Proctor unless you are convinced that you have lost – the old” Hail Mary “pass.”
Karen Read is sitting from left with her defense team, Robert Alessi, Elizabeth Little, Alan Jackson and David Yannetti during their murder on the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, Monday, June 2, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, pool)
According to LU, the defense team with Diamandis on the stand on the ground had gained ground, but since Brennan was freely opposite in front of the text chain, the news was probably not a significant shift in favor of read.
“Is the jury really shocked by abusive texts by a police officer who examines a person you believe that she is a murderer?” Said lu. “I doubt it.”
Read is accused of having met her friend, the Boston police officer John O’keefe, with her Lexus -SUV during a drunken dispute before leaving him freeze to death In the front yard of a friend at home in the early morning hours of January 29, 2022.
Diamandis said that he had worked together in a group chat with Proctor for more than a decade and was inaugurated in text messages with regard to the examination of O’keefes death.
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Jonathan Diamandis, a long -time friend of Michael Proctor, testifies to the Supreme Court of Norfolk in Dedham, Massachusetts on Monday, June 2, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, pool)
The State Police of Massachusetts dismissed Proctor in March after an internal investigation found that he had shared sensitive and confidential information about the case with people outside the law enforcement authorities.
The first attempt by Read revealed inappropriate text messages that the senior investigator has sent The case developed.
“The messages prove one thing, and Michael is human – not corrupt, not incompetent in his role as a murder detective and certainly not unable to continue to be a soldier of the state of Massachusett,” said his sister Courtney Proctor in a statement.
In the case of cross -interpretation, Brennan Diamandis asked to read the news of the jury Proctor from the day, of which O’keefes Leiche was discovered.
Michael Proctor, soldier of the State Police in Massachusetts, occurs on June 10, 2024 during Karen Read’s first murder trial in front of the Supreme Court of Norfolk in Dedham. Position. (Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe about Getty Images)
“She defended him,” wrote Proctor and referred to Read. “I looked at his body in the hospital.”
Proctor put his own observations about it Police officer Boston may have been beaten to death.
“I thought that after I spoke [a] Canton paramedic, “wrote Proctor.” Then I saw the guy. ”
Karen Read speaks to her defender Alan Jackson during her recording at the Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Dedham. (Mark Stockwell/AP Photo, Pool)
After further details, Proctor answered with a message that implied reading and said to his friends: “She beat him with her car.”
“Gotcha,” wrote a buddy. “[O’Keefe] Was frozen in the entrance and she didn’t see him. ”
“This is another animal that we cannot prove,” said Proctor. “They arrived in the house together, came into an argument, she drove and went.”
The defenders were asked to examine convictions under the direction of Karen Read Detective
The text messages give the possibility that Proctor came to O’keef’s death after the examination, said Massachusett’s defender Grace Edwards. He sent her on January 29, 2022 around 11 p.m. – the day on which O’keefe was found. An autopsy only completed two days later.
“These text messages came from the night of John O’Keefe’s death, and it seems that Michael Proctor has already come to a conclusion about the case – before the report of the medical examiner,” Edwards told Fox News Digital. “His conclusion was premature.”
According to Edwards, Proctors alleged hurry to imply reading that evidence of other options that have the cause of O’keeefe’s death could have proven him.
“Michael Proctor is not qualified to determine how John O’keefe died,” said Edwards. “We have medical examiners for this. Due to the text messages, Michael Proctor came to this conclusion within a few hours after O’keefes.”
Officer John O’keefe poses for his official head shot. O’keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is currently in court for murder after he was found dead in January 2022 outside of a house of Massachusett. (Police authority in Boston)
The defense lawyer Mark Bederow also pointed out to the professional inability of Proctor to determine what – or who – o’keefe killed and how the direct assumption would have disadvantage.
“[Proctor] It is not qualified to say: “Bederow said to Fox News Digital.
When the tone of the texts shifted, Diamandis told the courtroom that he did not want to read the news any further because it contained “unpleasant words” what Brennan prompted to read and ask Diamandis, to confirm that what he read was a precise presentation of the texts in the chain.
Karen Read and John O’keefe posing for an undated photo. (Karen Read)
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“Yes, she is a baby,” Proctor wrote. “Strange case River accent. No a-.”
The text chain was on points, including the Spottesadium about an alleged medical problem.
Proctor is subject to a testimony and refused to comment.
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Proctor is on the list of defenses, but instead Reads team called Diamandis, which believes Edwards is a risky step of defense.
“Brennan has now taken out the wind from the sailing of the defense because reading these texts did not have the effects they had during the first court proceedings when Michael Proctor read them himself,” said Edwards.
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The decision to name the friend of Proctor’s friend could be seen as a safe opportunity for the defense team Risk attempts by the state.
On the other hand, the defense can now point out that the prosecutors refused to put their leading investigators on the witness stand, said Bederow.
“You will probably pursue an instruction” missing witnesses “before the court in which the judge will inform the jury that you can make a disadvantageous conclusion against law enforcement because you have not called Proctor,” he said. “It is practically unknown that law enforcement does not call the leading investigator in a murder case, but of course it is extremely rare that the senior investigator has ended due to unprofessional behavior and bias [the same] Case.”
