Statement from Jackson in this post:
"Today’s filing speaks for itself. It is a meticulously documented civil action grounded in evidence, law, and the Constitution. For more than three years, Karen Read was dragged through a baseless criminal prosecution engineered by individuals who abused their authority, manipulated the investigative process, and trampled her rights. Our complaint lays out, in stark detail, the malicious prosecution, the conspiracy, the civil-rights violations, and the intentional misconduct that these defendants visited upon an innocent woman.
If these defendants want to answer for that under oath, we welcome it.
What we will not do is legitimize a threat to file some imaginary “defamation” case. That threat is nothing more than a desperate attempt by these defendants to distract the public from the very real legal jeopardy they now face. When people start waving around defamation claims to mask their own legal troubles, it tells you everything you need to know—they don’t want sunlight, they want silence.
Karen Read spent years fighting for her freedom against a corrupted investigation. Now she is fighting for accountability. And unlike the criminal case, this time the defendants don’t get to hide behind badges, back-channel favors, or manufactured narratives. They will have to answer in a court of law for every lie, every omission, every manipulated report, and every constitutional violation they committed.
Karen Read is not backing down. Our team is not backing down.
Accountability is coming—and these defendants can threaten all the phantom lawsuits they want, but the truth doesn’t flinch."
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