A Plymouth County Superior Court Judge is deciding if a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Karen Read by the family of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe will proceed as scheduled.
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The town of Abington has recommended that former school resource officer Josh Heal be stripped of his police certification by the Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST).
A new filing in the Karen Read murder case Friday afternoon seeks the un-aired footage of an interview 25 Investigates conducted with Read’s parents on Aug. 1, 2023.
Prosecutors say there’s no basis for dismissing the charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of the accident, arguing that the state’s retrial cannot be double jeopardy.
Federal authorities have said they collected new evidence that led them to prosecute the case as a murder.
An attempt to add more criminal charges to Karen Read and Aidan Kearney, the Massachusetts blogger known as “Turtleboy” failed earlier this year.
One of the Stoughton police officers named in a scathing 2022 internal affairs report about the alleged sexual grooming and manipulation of Sandra Birchmore in the years before her murder appeared before a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission hearing officer Thursday in a closed-door hearing.
A POST spokesperson said Heal’s record with the agency was updated in November 2023, to include “resigned in lieu of discipline” and POST, “cannot comment on whether a case has been opened or on any cases that may be pending.”
Attorneys for Karen Read filed a 77-page brief with the state's highest court on Wednesday, arguing that the state’s continued push to retry her would amount to unconstitutional double jeopardy.
An audio recording obtained by 25 Investigates reveals what the former Abington police chief knew about one of his officers, months before that officer’s name was leaked in an explosive report about the manipulation and sexual grooming of Sandra Birchmore.