DEDHAM, Mass. (Court docket TV) — A decide has dominated that prosecutors will have the ability to entry a blogger’s telephone to search for proof associated to witness intimidation in Karen Learn‘s homicide trial following a weird listening to on Thursday.

Learn and her attorneys had been in court docket on Thursday to handle a number of motions forward of her retrial on fees she murdered her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, however their listening to adopted one for a case that’s intently associated.

Aiden Kearney, a blogger generally known as “Turtleboy,” grew to become a central determine in Learn’s case forward of her first trial and was a proponent of the speculation that Learn was being framed in a wide-ranging cover-up. Kearney is dealing with a variety of fees, together with intimidation of a witness, for his alleged conduct involving witnesses in Learn’s trial. Due to these fees, the district legal professional’s workplace already has possession of his telephones, however Particular Prosecutor Hank Brennan took the weird step of going earlier than a decide to ask for permission to entry the info to be used in Learn’s case.

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The Thursday morning listening to, which featured a special decide in the identical courtroom the place Learn’s hearings are usually held, was interrupted by Learn and her group, who walked in whereas Brennan was mid-argument and sat down on the counsel desk alongside Kearney and his legal professional, Tim Bradl. Her group joined Kearney and Bradl over Brennan’s objections. “We’re not involved about what’s in Mr. Kearney’s telephones,” Bradl advised the decide. “We’re involved about (the prosecution’s) weird interpretations of the witness intimidation statute.”

Choose Adam Sisitsky, who presided over the listening to, agreed with the prosecution that “interference might be made that the events inspired Mr. Kearney … to personally assault witnesses and their members of the family ‘with a sole goal to embarrass, intimidate, harass and deter these people from testifying.’” To that finish, Choose Sisitsky stated the prosecution was welcome to have a look at any communication Kearney had on two telephones with Matthew McCabe, Jennifer McCabe, Brian Albert, Christopher Albert, Colin Albert, Juliana Albert, Michael Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor from April 8, 2023 to Oct. 5, 2023, in addition to any photos or photos exhibiting proof of witness intimidation.

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Brennan advised the court docket he didn’t intend to make use of the communications as proof that Learn was concerned in witness intimidation however reasonably as pointing to her consciousness of guilt, given her frequent communication with Kearney.

In a separate movement filed on Thursday in Learn’s case, Brennan has requested the court docket to offer him textual content messages between Learn and her legal professional, David Yannetti, between Jan. 29, 2022 and Feb. 2, 2022 — the three days instantly following O’Keefe’s dying. The movement argues that Learn has waived the attorney-client privilege that may usually defend these conversations when she “voluntarily and deliberately disclosed the existence of those communications and her preliminary ideas about her culpability for inflicting the dying of John O’Keefe throughout numerous public interviews.”

Choose Beverly Cannone will hear arguments on the movement when the events return to court docket on Tuesday, March 25. Jury choice for Learn’s retrial is scheduled to start on April 1 and final a number of weeks.