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This morning in a Dedham courtroom the long and curious saga that has transpired in the wake of the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe at the hands of another or perhaps others a bit over two years ago looks to be coming at least close to a fork in the road.
Why so? The defense team for defendant Karen Read submitted various motions to subpoena personal phone records of individuals variously tied to case.
At the same time, there will not be a Perry Mason moment in court today.
The reason why not is that the judge will surely be taking the motions under consideration and then issue her rulings at a later date, not to mention who only knows if the case might actually go to trial as a motion to dismiss the charges again Karen Read is also in the mix.
Even so, Quincy Quarry, has long taken considerable heat behind the scenes for not covering this case more than it has occasionally done to date.
Has someone put one of his fat fingers on the scale of justice?
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So what for the fact that so far the O’Keefe homicide case has no (known) clear ties to Quincy other than that the Norfolk County District Attorney is a long-resident of Squantum.
At least not until we might perhaps find out if there is anything of local significance that might arise from the FBI’s separate as well as apparently ongoing investigation of at least the Norfolk District Attorney that rumor has it commenced before O’Keefe was killed.
That or perhaps if the DA might whack someone while backing out of a parking space after an extended stint at the Nickerson VFW Post adjacent to Squaw Rock Park in Squantum.
In the meanwhile, the underlying claims and counterclaims have given rise to opposing camps of case followers arguably as rancorous on a more local level as the ever-worsening rancor in advance of this year’s upcoming presidential election.
To it all, Quincy Quarry would now like to point out to its readers what it views as as good as an accounting of events surrounding the case as well as why many in the media have tread lightly with their coverage of a case that the defense has alleged entails an arguably near-phantasmagorical set of events which includes accusations of a posse to be the actual malefactors.
In other words, assertions ideal for a Hollywood movie or at least hours of coverage on Court TV and its ilk.
Accordingly, initial skepticism was thus only reasonable even if at this point the defense team has steadily gathered this and that in support of its claims that the defendant is innocence as well as also casting all manner of arguable aspersions unto others along the way..
Granted, along the way Quincy Quarry could have scored serious eyeball counts along the way by more actively reporting on the Karen Read case; however, doing so would have been at a cost — a cost many among the media face: limited resources and thus more closely following the case would come at the cost of covering their respective news beats.
Boston 25 digs deep
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The same constraints also surely limit others among the media even if many are surely monitoring the situation and thus likely to report if and when things break badly in ways official.
Even so, in the meanwhile some among the media have stepped up to the plate.
For example, Quincy Quarry’s media brethren at Boston 25’s media have long investigating this curious case and that with its reporting often resulting in embarrassment for the prosecution.
A pilgrimage site for Turtle Riders?
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Similarly, a blogger known as Turtleboy has long been going to the mattresses in his repeated callings of the prosecution’s case a disgrace of arguably the highest order.
In return, Turtleboy ended up jailed for sixty days for his (causing) trouble as well as was apparently set up to be played by a crazy ratchet along the way.
Fortunately, the FBI’s apparently larger investigation into matters as yet unknown has already yielded serious problems with the prosecution’s case and thus of benefit to defendant Karen Read.
While — again — the judge presiding over the trial will likely be taking her time to rule on today’s motions as well as the expected follow motion to dismiss the charges has yet to be posed for her consideration, what is certain is that the whole of things is likely in but the third inning.
For but starters, the defense projected a six week trial if the case does — in fact — go to trial.
In turn, if the case against Karen Read ends up ends up set aside, such should give rise to all manner of likely new indictments of others, civil damages claims filed by Read over her wrongful prosecution, and who only knows what the feds may have uncovered.
In any event as well as at a minimum, should the charges against Ms. Read be dismissed, Quincy Quarry will be looking forward to seeing what the Pulitzer Prize Committee as well as other news media have to say about Turtleboy’s doggedly reporting on what is increasingly looking to be arguably unwarranted prosecutions as well as persecutions of him and Ms. Read.
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The Read story is so Quincy!
Hack DA Michael Morrissey chose to lie to all of us – while protecting his cop-killing friends – by framing an innocent person for murder.
Dirty cops planted evidence!
Just ask Josh Levy.
Further, Michael Morrissey knew he was the target of a FEDERAL investigation and that a FEDERAL GRAND JURY was ‘interrogating’ his witnesses in the Read case, and STILL WENT AHEAD AND LIED TO US!
Shameful.
Moreover, the conduct of the DA’s office in the Read case is truly third-world.
When will Michael Morrissey show us the video of Read hitting O’Keefe with her car?
Morrissey has been lying to us since the onset of the Read case and people worldwide are watching!
The good news for ‘Quarry Riders’ is the FBI will be coming to Quincy to make an arrest; however, it won’t be Tom Koch’s.
Chesty,
An FYI: I have already advised Director Wray that my Treasury Agents have first dibs on Tommy.
It is a safe call for the Quincy Quarry not to report on the Read case. Unlike Mayor Koch, DA Morrissey swings back and jails his detractors.
Ms. Boop,
Actually, Mayor Koch and his minions do strike back. Put in jail, however, not so much given an easy to show pattern or practice.
Looks like the defense is pulling out all the stops in the Karen Read murder case because nothing screams innocence like a frantic scramble for phone records, right? It’s like watching a bad detective movie where the villain suddenly realizes they left a trail of incriminating breadcrumbs all over social media. “But wait, let’s check the phone records!” they cry, hoping desperately for a miracle exoneration. Sorry, folks, but “I was just calling to discuss the weather” isn’t a solid alibi, no matter how many times you dial the number. Better luck next time, defense – maybe try a different playbook, preferably one with fewer plot holes.
Franny,
Actually, there are clear indications c/o the FBI phone records and other ways that the requested phone logs are expected to show some things that would indicate that there were some serious misstatements made while under oath.