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A state trooper who despatched stunning sexualized texts about homicide suspect Karen Learn has sparked fears his conduct may thwart her trial.
State Police Trooper Michael Proctor admitted to creating demeaning feedback about Learn together with referencing her ‘ass’ and calling her ‘a babe’.
His admission got here throughout testimony throughout Learn’s trial for the homicide of her Boston cop boyfriend John O’Keefe.
Learn, 44, has denied homicide and claims she is the sufferer of an elaborate arrange by police, together with Proctor.
She is accused of operating over O’Keefe, 46, and leaving him to die exterior a good friend’s home in 2022.
A state trooper who despatched stunning sexualized texts about homicide suspect Karen Learn has sparked fears his conduct may thwart her trial
On the stand, Proctor acknowledged that he known as Learn a number of names, together with ‘wack job,’ in texts to mates, household and fellow troopers.
He additionally admitted that he joked to supervisors about not discovering nude pictures whereas looking her cellphone and texting his sister that he wished Learn would ‘kill herself,’ which he claimed was a determine of speech and that ‘feelings received one of the best of me.’
He apologized for the language he used, however insisted they’d no affect on the investigation.
O’Keefe was discovered unconscious in a snowbank exterior a the house of Brian Albert, with cranium fractures, swollen eyes and hypothermia at round 6am on January 29, 2022.
Learn had dropped him off on the home for a celebration the night time earlier than his demise. Her protection claims he was overwhelmed up and kicked out by one other visitor.
In one other enhance for the protection, Proctor admitted to being mates with the brother of Brian Albert and his spouse.
State Police Trooper Michael Proctor admitted to creating demeaning feedback about Learn together with referencing her ‘ass’ and calling her ‘a babe’
Learn is accused of operating over Boston cop John O’Keefe, 46, and leaving him to die exterior a good friend’s home.
On cross-examination, protection legal professional Alan Jackson received Proctor to acknowledge that he was consuming buddies with Albert´s brother, Kevin Albert, who’s a Canton police officer.
However Proctor insisted the connection had no affect on the investigation and that he had by no means been to their home earlier than O´Keefe´s demise.
He did acknowledge they went out consuming a number of months after O´Keefe died, labored on a chilly case collectively and communicated about coordinating points of the O´Keefe case although the Canton Police Division recused itself from the case.
Proctor remains to be employed by Massachusetts State Police, nonetheless he’s below investigation.
There are fears his admissions may jeopardize any potential conviction within the Learn case.
In the meantime, the legal professional in a separate homicide case investigated by Proctor additionally plans to file a movement over Proctor’s conduct, Newsweek stories.
Learn, 44, has denied homicide and claims she is the sufferer of an elaborate arrange by police, together with Proctor
Larry Tipton, the lawyer for Matt Walshe, a husband accused of murdering his spouse Ana final 12 months stated he doesn’t know if Proctor’s habits biased his shopper’s trial.
Final week, Governor Maura Healey stated she was ‘disgusted’ by the trooper’s actions, including the messages hurt the ‘integrity of the work women and men throughout the state police and legislation enforcement.’
Prosecutors declare that witnesses on the scene heard Learn yell ‘I hit him!’ when she and two mates discovered his physique, together with ‘that is my fault. I did this.’
Learn’s protection, nonetheless, was in a position to get cops to acknowledge they by no means truly heard her say she hit O’Keefe, who was a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Division.
