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 outdoors 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 referred to as Learn a number of names, together with ‘wack job,’ in texts to associates, household and fellow troopers.
He additionally admitted that he joked to supervisors about not discovering nude photographs whereas looking her telephone and texting his sister that he wished Learn would ‘kill herself,’ which he claimed was a determine of speech and that ‘feelings acquired the very best of me.’
He apologized for the language he used, however insisted that they had no affect on the investigation.
O’Keefe was discovered unconscious in a snowbank outdoors 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 evening earlier than his loss of life. Her protection claims he was overwhelmed up and kicked out by one other visitor.
In one other increase for the protection, Proctor admitted to being associates 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 outdoors a good friend’s home.
On cross-examination, protection legal professional Alan Jackson acquired Proctor to acknowledge that he was ingesting 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 loss of life.
He did acknowledge they went out ingesting a number of months after O´Keefe died, labored on a chilly case collectively and communicated about coordinating facets of the O´Keefe case despite the fact that the Canton Police Division recused itself from the case.
Proctor continues to be employed by Massachusetts State Police, nonetheless he’s underneath 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 reviews.
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 mentioned he doesn’t know if Proctor’s habits biased his consumer’s trial.
Final week, Governor Maura Healey mentioned 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 regulation enforcement.’
Prosecutors declare that witnesses on the scene heard Learn yell ‘I hit him!’ when she and two associates 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 really heard her say she hit O’Keefe, who was a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Division.
