Karen Read opposes giving ex-Trooper Michael Proctor chance to 'refresh his memory' ahead of deposition

Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald on Apr 13, 2026

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BOSTON — Karen Read does not want to give former State Police Trooper Michael Proctor the opportunity to obtain early discovery to “refresh his memory” ahead of a deposition in another case, according to a new filing in federal court.

Read is suing Proctor for allegedly ignoring, mishandling and manufacturing evidence while investigating her in the 2022 death of her boyfriend Boston police Officer John O’Keefe.

The former state trooper requested the early, limited discovery of documents from the Norfolk district attorney’s office and the Canton Police Department so that he could prepare for a deposition in a state suit Read filed.

In his own filing, Proctor wrote that Read’s lawyers have refused to give him access to the records in the state case, even though Read “has had copies of these documents for years.”

“Proctor does not point to any case, statute, rule, or other authority supporting this request because there is none,” Read’s attorneys wrote in her opposition. “If Proctor truly believed he had any right, as a non-party deponent in a civil case in state superior court, to discovery of, or access to, any of these documents, he would have sought them in such court.”

Proctor was a trooper embedded with the Norfolk district attorney’s office when O’Keefe died in January 2022. The Boston officer was found outside the home of then-BPD Sgt. Brian Albert in Canton after a blizzard with serious injuries. O’Keefe died at the hospital and Read was later arrested for his murder.

When Proctor took the stand in the first of Read’s second-degree murder trials, he was forced to read demeaning and insulting message asserting her guilt that he wrote about her during the investigation.

Proctor has since been fired from the State Police.

Read was eventually acquitted of killing O’Keefe during a second trial last summer.

In addition to suing Proctor, Read also sued Albert and other witnesses who were present in the Albert home before O’Keefe died.

All parties have denied the accusations against them.

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