I requested Karen Learn yesterday if she had something she needed to say on to District Legal professional Michael Morrissey and the Mass State Police.
She thought of it. She didn’t say something for 4, 5, six seconds – an eternity of silence in radio.
“You misplaced,” she lastly mentioned, then stopped once more for an additional three or 4 seconds. “You misplaced. You misplaced massive time.”
And that about sums it up. After three and a half years of tried body ups, being arrested twice, being handcuffed to a radiator as soon as, dropping an important job at Constancy, having to promote her dwelling, being acquitted not as soon as, however twice, of the identical homicide, and never with the ability to drive since January 2022, lastly she might tackle the demented law-enforcement lynch mob in Norfolk County that attempted to railroad her.
“You misplaced massive time.”
It’s been greater than two months now for the reason that (second) not-guilty verdict, and now, the hunters are about to develop into the hunted.
Karen Learn was in my studio along with her lawyer, Alan Jackson. He had flown again right here from California for technique periods about what occurs subsequent – this time on the civil aspect.
She’s once more the defendant, this time in a wrongful-death go well with introduced by the household of her lifeless boyfriend, John O’Keefe. However since she was acquitted of killing him (to repeat, twice), it appears unlikely that the O’Keefes have a lot of a case.
However, Karen Learn does have a case, a really massive case. They destroyed her life. The 4 North Finish guys framed by the FBI shared $102 million. Freddy Weichel, framed by one other corrupt Norfolk County district lawyer as a favor for Whitey Bulger, acquired $15 million.
How a lot is three years of Karen Learn’s life price? Truly, her entire life. What she had earlier than is gone perpetually. She lives along with her dad and mom now. Two months later, she’s nonetheless in a sort of limbo, if not purgatory.
Karen Learn offered her life story to a Hollywood studio. On Wednesday, she learn {that a} Pittsfield native, Elizabeth Banks, had been forged within the position of… Karen Learn.
Who knew? Definitely not Karen Learn.
“I learn that most likely about the very same time you probably did,” she informed me. “I had nothing to do with that. It’s not my film.”
Banks is 52 years previous. Karen Learn is 45. I requested her how she felt about having a lady that a lot older than herself starring in a model of her life story.
“When this all occurred,” she mentioned, “I used to be solely 42. So really, the lady enjoying me is 10 years older than I used to be.”
She shrugged. What was she going to do? What extra can they do to her? You may by no means be made entire after one thing just like the nightmare they put her by, for one thing she didn’t do. As Alan Jackson mentioned:
“How a lot worth would you place for being in her sneakers for 10 minutes, not to mention 4 years?”
Choose Beverly Cannone hated Karen Learn, for thus many causes. She refused to just accept the not-guilty verdicts a 12 months in the past – compelled her to lose one other 12 months of her life. Double jeopardy is what it was.
Now, Karen Learn’s civil case may be filed in federal courtroom, however extra probably in Plymouth, the place the doomed O’Keefe case has one other motions listening to Sept. 22.
The issue is, or may be, for the reason that second failed necktie celebration, Cannone has been transferred to Plymouth County. She seems to be following Karen Learn like Captain Ahab adopted the white whale.
Is there a chance, nonetheless slight, that Cannone might get a 3rd shot at destroying Karen Learn? It’s, in spite of everything, Massachusetts, the place within the halls of justice, the one justice is within the halls.
Jackson mentioned that regardless of the hypothesis on social media, it’s not occurring.
“Our case is in Plymouth,” he mentioned, “and Choose Cannone is assigned to Brockton. She’s not going to get the case.”
I stay in Norfolk County. Just lately, I used to be taking the trash out, and within the rubbish, I noticed that considered one of my neighbors had discarded an affordable nylon bag that bore the title of District Legal professional Michael Morrissey.
Yesterday, it occurred to me that it would make a pleasant gag reward. And I had a couple of different props to throw in it, together with some shards of damaged crimson taillight that I’d had a pal of mine with a physique store present me with.
I pulled out a baggie of the shards and handed it to Karen Learn.
“I purchased these at State Police GHQ this morning,” I mentioned. “On the reward store. Are you aware they’ve three shifts a day breaking these taillights off, to drop at any crime scene as wanted?”
I additionally occurred to have some rubber duckies that I’d ordered from Amazon. I handed one every to Alan Jackson and Karen Learn.
She checked out it earlier than placing it down.
“Isn’t it an indictable offense,” she mentioned, “to have considered one of these in Norfolk County?”
Not anymore, Karen.
They misplaced. They misplaced. They misplaced massive time.
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