Attorneys for a girl charged with hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend together with her SUV and leaving him to die throughout a snowstorm say they’ve uncovered new proof that may clear her title, whereas implicating two others within the dying of Officer John J. O’Keefe, in keeping with courtroom paperwork filed Wednesday.
Karen A. Learn found O’Keefe’s unconscious physique in a snowbank amid whiteout circumstances and freezing temperatures outdoors a Canton house at about 6 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022.
Learn had dropped her boyfriend, a 16-year-veteran of the Boston pressure, off to hitch an after-party on the house of one other Boston police officer, Brian Albert, at 34 Fairview Street shortly after midnight, courtroom data present.
In line with prosecutors, Learn made a three-point flip to reverse path, rammed into O’Keefe, and drove away.
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This undated {photograph} offered by the Boston Police Division reveals officer John O’Keefe, 46, of Canton. (Boston Police Division through AP)Related Press
Early the following morning when Learn started frantically texting and calling O’Keefe to determine why he hadn’t returned house, she instructed a pal she remembered little of the earlier evening — a night of bar-hopping that shifted to an after-party which Learn determined to not attend as a result of she was having abdomen points.
The brand new proof reveals that hours earlier than Learn discovered O’Keefe’s physique, another person who had attended the after-party was making suspicious inquiries on Google, in keeping with the newly filed protection movement.
At 2:27 a.m. Jennifer McCabe, sister-in-law to Albert, searched on her cellphone: “Ho[w] lengthy to die in chilly,” the movement stated.
“There’s merely no harmless clarification for McCabe’s search at the moment,” Learn’s protection crew stated in a press launch. “This proof unequivocally exonerates Karen, as a result of it establishes that people who have been in the home at 34 Fairview that evening have been conscious that John was dying within the snow earlier than Karen even knew he was lacking.”
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A forensic evaluation of McCabe’s cellphone by protection consultants additionally confirmed that the Google search was deliberately deleted, as have been communications within the early morning hours of Jan. 29, 2022 amongst McCabe and Albert, and his spouse, Learn’s legal professionals wrote.
Albert couldn’t be reached for remark Wednesday evening.
McCabe declined to remark when reached by phone.
Learn’s legal professionals stated prosecutors withheld the proof for over a 12 months. The authorized crew, led by David R. Yannetti, in Boston, and Alan Jackson, in Los Angeles, is now requesting entry to Albert’s cellphone to allow them to analyze it.
“It’s unthinkable that the prosecution would have McCabe’s cellphone of their possession for greater than a 12 months, do a forensic evaluation on that cellphone, after which fail to show over this extraordinary exculpatory proof. However that’s precisely what occurred,” the legal professionals’ assertion stated. “It makes you marvel what else the prosecution has failed to show over to the protection. We won’t relaxation till we now have uncovered all of the proof, which can set up that the prosecution of Karen was a miscarriage of justice from the beginning.”
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A spokesman for the Norfolk district legal professional’s workplace stated prosecutors will make a “formal and detailed response to the movement” in Norfolk Superior Court docket on the subsequent listening to, Could 3, or after.
“Whereas prosecutors are ethically constrained within the statements that may be made outdoors the courtroom, the Norfolk District Lawyer’s Workplace is in receipt of the movement filed at this time but it surely has not but been decided that protection has interpreted the uncooked information appropriately,” spokesman David Traub stated. “The Norfolk District Lawyer’s Workplace has requested protection repeatedly in the course of the pendency of this matter to offer any truly exculpatory proof to help their claims.”
Learn, who labored as an fairness analyst at a monetary agency and an adjunct professor of finance at Bentley College in Waltham, has pleaded not responsible to second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas inebriated, and leaving the scene of non-public damage and dying.
Tonya Alanez might be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com. Observe her on Twitter @talanez.
A huge fourth quarter by Camryn Tade helped the Army West Point Black Knights women’s basketball team rally from a deficit to defeat Boston U, 59-52, on Saturday in Boston.
The Black Knights (13-3, 5-1 Patriot) have won two straight games since they fell to Lehigh a weekend ago and dropped from the ranks of the undefeated teams in the league.
Now, Army is tied for first place with both Navy and Holy Cross at 5-1 going into next week’s games. Lehigh is a half-game back at 4-1.
The Black Knights started the fourth quarter down 46-38. Tade came to the rescue, as she scored 11 of her 18 points in the final 10 minutes.
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She got to work 40 seconds into the quarter with a 3-pointer that cut the lead to five points.
After several empty possessions, Tade struck again with another 3-pointer to push the Black Knights within two points, 46-44, with 7:30 left.
The Terriers remained in the lead as they and the Black Knights traded free throws before Army took the lead, thanks against to Tade. Her lay-up with 5:25 left put Army in the lead, 48-47.
From there, the Black Knights remained ahead. A Fiona Hastick lay-up pushed the lead to three points, followed by a 3-pointer by Tade with 3:32 left that made it 53-47 Army.
Boston (7-10, 1-5) never got any closer.
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The Terriers controlled the game in the first half, as they took a 10-9 lead after the first quarter and then pushed that lead to 25-15 at halftime. Army surged to 23 points in the third quarter, but Boston hung in there by scoring 21 points before the Black Knights outscored the Terriers, 21-6, in the final stanza.
Tade made four 3-pointers for the game, three of which came in the fourth quarter. She also had seven rebounds and two blocked shots. Trinity Hardy led Army with 21 points, along with eight rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal.
Reese Ericson hit some key free throws down the stretch, as she went 6-fot-6 from the line for the game and finished with nine points. She also had four assists.
Inés Monteagudo led Boston with 12 points, while Allison Schwertner added 11 points.
Next week is critical for Army’s Patriot League Tournament seeding as it will face Holy Cross on Wednesday and Navy on Sunday. The Black Knights already have a loss to Lehigh, so they can ill-afford a loss to either the Crusaders or their rivals, the Midshipmen.
A prominent Boston-area doctor accused in several lawsuits of sexually assaulting more than 200 former patients was indicted by a grand jury on rape charges.
Dr. Derrick Todd allegedly assaulted two women during examinations in December 2022 and June 2023 at the Charles River Medical Associates in Framingham, Mass., the Middlesex County District Attorney announced Thursday.
Todd, a rheumatologist, appeared in Middlesex Superior Court Friday after he handed himself over to police the previous night.
Dr. Derrick Todd is arraigned in Middlesex County Superior Court after he was indicted on rape charges on Jan. 17, 2025. AP
The two women had either a pelvic exam or pap smear with the doctor when the alleged assault occurred, NBC Boston reported.
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The patients alleged the exams went beyond “normal.”
One of the women endured enough pain for her to scream at Todd to stop but the doctor didn’t listen and continued the exam.
The second patient alleged she didn’t give Todd consent to perform the specific examination but the doctor went ahead despite the rejection, the outlet reported.
Todd pleaded not guilty to the two rape charges.
He was held on a $10,000 bail.
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Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, where Todd worked for 14 years. Google Maps
A judge ordered Todd to surrender his passport, not have any contact with his alleged victims, and give up all medical licenses.
Claims of abuse from Todd date back to 2010 but only surfaced in 2023 after Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital received anonymous complaints.
Todd is the former chief of clinical rheumatology at the Boston hospital but resigned after 14 years in 2023 when two other physicians questioned the appropriateness of pelvis exams for his rheumatology patients, the Boston Globe reported.
Over 200 of Todd’s former patients accused him of performing unnecessary pelvic floor therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations, and rectal examinations.
The accusers include over 200 women and several men between teenagers and 60-year-olds.
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Attorneys for 180 of the former patients say the two rape charges are just the start of the doctor’s legal battle.
“It’s just the beginning of the criminal case against Dr. Todd, but it does help validate the civil claims that Lubin & Meyer is pursuing on behalf of so many of his former patients,” Attorney William Thompson said. “Fundamentally, it’s about a doctor abusing his position. And taking advantage of patients who put their trust in him for his own personal sexual gratification.”
Over 200 of Todd’s former patients accused him of performing unnecessary pelvic floor therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations, and rectal examinations. LinkedIn
Todd voluntarily ceased his medical practice in Massachusetts in September 2023.
The announcement was made in a letter to the Board of Registration in Medicine.
The class-action lawsuit against Todd also listed the hospital as a defendant for allegedly knowing about the abuse and failing to stop it.
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