Lower courtroom expenses in opposition to the blogger often known as Turtleboy had been dropped following his indictment in Norfolk Superior Court.
“The Commonwealth hereby enters a Nolle Prosequi on the above entitled case pursuant to Rule 16 of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure,” a particular prosecutor within the case, Robert Novack, wrote in a Dedham District Court submitting.
Dedham District Court expenses in opposition to Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney, 42, of Holden, had been formally dropped at a brief listening to early Monday morning.
He was indicted within the close by Norfolk Superior Court and arraigned Friday on two counts associated to a home violence case that had been prosecuted on the close by district courtroom. Those expenses are intimidation of a witness and disclosure of a wiretap associated to an alleged Christmas Eve 2023 incident with an ex-girlfriend. The indicted expenses drop the cost of assault and battery on a family member he confronted on the district courtroom.
Kearney protection legal professional Timothy Bradl instructed the Herald that he doesn’t assume prosecutors are “interested in giving Aidan any breaks.”
“I would expect that if they thought the (assault) charge had any merit to it, they would have brought it along to the Superior Court,” Bradl stated. “So I am expecting a disclosure regarding why they abandoned the charge. I believe there is an exculpatory reason and that must be disclosed.”
Special prosecutor Novack filed the nolle prosequi the identical day because the indictment. The doc sort’s identify interprets from the Latin as “not to wish to prosecute,” in line with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. Such filings are sometimes made on the district courtroom degree when a matter is elevated to a better courtroom as is the case right here.
Kearney was additionally indicted on 16 counts associated to Kearney’s writing — and ardent protection activism — within the case of Mansfield’s Read, who authorities accuse of murdering her boyfriend of two years, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, by putting him together with her automobile after an evening out in Canton in late January 2022.
Kearney appeared on the Superior Court later Monday as a spectator within the newest listening to within the Read matter.
Novack is filling in for fellow Fall River legal professional and appointed particular prosecutor Kenneth Mello, who’s reportedly sick.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”