The judge in the Karen Read murder trial ruled Friday that blogger Aidan 'Turtleboy' Kearney will be excused from the courtroom when certain witness testify.
FILE - Karen Read chats with her defense attorney at her murder trial in Dedham Superior Court on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read , 44, of Mansfield, faces several charges, including second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend Boston police officer John O'Keefe, 46, in 2022. ruled Friday that blogger Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney will be excused from the courtroom when certain witnesses testify, including members of the Albert and McCabe families.
Mr. Kearney has covered this case and written about 350 news articles on this case. He developed evidentiary scoops on this case that have added to the quantum of evidence in the matter. He has never caused a problem. He wishes to be in the gallery of journalists like everyone else and cover the case," Kearney's attorney Timothy Bradl said.The number of reporter seats are limited. The judge said his seat will not be filled when he has to leave the courtroom.
Read's defense team said she is being framed. Her attorneys also have been focusing heavily on connections between police and the family that owned the home in the Boston suburb of Canton where O'Keefe's body was found. They are trying to argue that these relationships biased the investigation and blinded state and local law enforcement officials to the possibility that someone else killed the 46-year-old O'Keefe.
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