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Did Prosecutors Hide And Destroy Evidence In Karen Read's Case? What Happens Now?
Interesting how he thinks the judge will make the CW pay for Read's expert while Mark Bederow, one of Aidan Kearney's attorneys, thinks there is no chance in hell she'd ever go there. Neither regularly practice in MA though.
Whether it was all - or mostly - related to complete incompetence or intentional acts done to frame Read, the amount of state and local law enforcement screw ups and mishandling of evidence here is breathtaking.
The failure to immediately request entry into the house for a complete search, or the failure to obtain a warrant if entry was refused. The failure to isolate and individually interview all the people in the house to learn what they heard and saw or didn't see and hear. The failure to secure and post someone at the scene at all times The blood put in the neighbor's solo cups put in wet grocery bags and stored next to Read's car in the sallyport.
The failure to canvess the neighborhood for videos of Read coming and going or to learn what the neighbors may have seen or heard. (Acccording to the CW, John's body lay on the lawn for over 5 hours. Wouldn't they want to know if any doctors or nurses or other essential workers drove by that morning? Fairview is not a side street and it connects to other streets.) The failure to interview the snow plow driver.
The failure to check any businesses for video of Read driving on Washington Street back to Meadows. The mishandling of available video, including the library video (which appears to have manipulated) and all of the sallyport video insanity addressed in the video above.
The failure to document the accurate time the Read vehicle was loaded onto the tow truck in Dighton. The failure to photograph the condition of the taillight before it was loaded onto a tow truck. In a blizzard no less, when an accident along the way was possible. The failure to bring the Read car to one of the much closer State Police barracks as was protocol, but to instead bring it back to Canton PD, which was just a little over a mile from the crime scene.
Michael Proctor. Aside from his over-the-top bad and totally unprofessional behavior, why weren't John's clothes logged into evidence for weeks? Whether one believes he was hit by a car or not, these items should have been treated with the utmost care. The failure of Proctor to properly photograph and document the "found" taillight pieces at the scene. Just useless close ups with no placement context.
Now we learn that the CW had video of Brian Higgins - a key player here - returning to the Canton police around 1:30 am and talking on the phone to someone. Not butt dialing. But they didn't share or even preserve it.
This isn't even a fully comprehensive list, because I have to stop typing now. But this is not how the justice system is supposed to work, and shame, once again, on Judge Cannone for not seeing and acting on this.