MISTRIAL MA - Professor Karen Read, 43, charged with murdering police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe by hitting him with car, Canton, 14 Apr 2023 #18

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25 Investigates: Grand jury blocked new charges against Karen Read in March

An attempt to add more criminal charges to Karen Read and Aidan Kearney, the Massachusetts blogger known as “Turtleboy” failed earlier this year.

www.boston25news.com

Back in March, the state tried to charge Karen Read and Turtleboy with witness intimidation but the grand jury refused to indict. It's a notoriously low bar to get a grand jury indictment, so the evidence must have been pretty weak.

Hmmm...

One wonders if the judge in KR's trial ( Canone ) was aware of this. You know, before she allowed the 'victims' ie 'witnesses' to cry on the stand about it. Also, she apparently kicked him ( a journalist ) out of the courtroom during their performances. Did she know? That there wasn't even spam, let alone a ham sandwich to indict?

Curiouser and curiouser....

 

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25 Investigates: Grand jury blocked new charges against Karen Read in March

An attempt to add more criminal charges to Karen Read and Aidan Kearney, the Massachusetts blogger known as “Turtleboy” failed earlier this year.

www.boston25news.com

Back in March, the state tried to charge Karen Read and Turtleboy with witness intimidation but the grand jury refused to indict. It's a notoriously low bar to get a grand jury indictment, so the evidence must have been pretty weak.

I'm confused. The quoted MSM dated 10/10/24 cites the GJ failed to return a true bill to add more criminal charges to Karen Read and Aidan Kearney, but doesn't cite the date. The article goes on to cite how the special prosecutor requested the panel indict the pair in March but does not make it clear if they were in fact indicted then, but that Kearney goes to trial in December. Huh??

 

[HarmonyE.]

I'm confused. The quoted MSM dated 10/10/24 cites the GJ failed to return a true bill to add more criminal charges to Karen Read and Aidan Kearney, but doesn't cite the date. The article goes on to cite how the special prosecutor requested the panel indict the pair in March but does not make it clear if they were in fact indicted then, but that Kearney goes to trial in December. Huh??

These were new charges they were trying to bring against Kearney but along with Read this time. This grand jury was convened earlier this year in attempt to get indictments against both. The idea seems to be that they wanted to arrest Read (and Kearney again) because she was directing his alleged ongoing harassment of the people in the house the night JO was killed. The police had seized Read's phone, raided her house and pulled all her phone records.

Seems the grand jury wasn't impressed. TB/Kearney's trial for witness intimidation is supposed to start later this year.

 

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It's interesting that the grand jury hearing was in March just a couple of weeks before the trial was set to begin.

It would have been very bad publicity for the defense just days before jury selection, potentially poisoning the pool. Plus it would have also allowed the judge to revoke KR's bond. She might have spent the entire trial in jail. It would have put a damper into the courthouse protests if the FKR folks could never see her and it would have impacted how she could communicate with her attorneys during the trial.

Even if they knew they had a really weak case on the intimidation, the DA could have just waited until after the trial was over and dropped the charges. They'd still benefit from the advantage in the meantime.