I requested Karen Learn yesterday if she had something she wished to say on to District Lawyer Michael Morrissey and the Mass State Police.
She considered it. She didn’t say something for 4, 5, six seconds – an eternity of silence in radio.
“You misplaced,” she lastly stated, then stopped once more for an additional three or 4 seconds. “You misplaced. You misplaced huge 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, shedding a terrific job at Constancy, having to promote her residence, being acquitted not as soon as, however twice, of the identical homicide, and never having the ability to drive since January 2022, lastly she may handle the demented law-enforcement lynch mob in Norfolk County that attempted to railroad her.
“You misplaced huge time.”
It’s been greater than two months now because the (second) not-guilty verdict, and now, the hunters are about to turn into the hunted.
Karen Learn was in my studio together with her legal professional, Alan Jackson. He had flown again right here from California for technique periods about what occurs subsequent – this time on the civil facet.
She’s once more the defendant, this time in a wrongful-death swimsuit introduced by the household of her useless 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 huge 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 legal professional as a favor for Whitey Bulger, bought $15 million.
How a lot is three years of Karen Learn’s life value? Truly, her entire life. What she had earlier than is gone endlessly. She lives together with her mother and father now. Two months later, she’s nonetheless in a type of limbo, if not purgatory.
Karen Learn bought her life story to a Hollywood studio. On Wednesday, she learn {that a} Pittsfield native, Elizabeth Banks, had been forged within the function of… Karen Learn.
Who knew? Definitely not Karen Learn.
“I learn that in all probability about the very same time you probably did,” she instructed me. “I had nothing to do with that. It’s not my film.”
Banks is 52 years outdated. Karen Learn is 45. I requested her how she felt about having a girl that a lot older than herself starring in a model of her life story.
“When this all occurred,” she stated, “I used to be solely 42. So really, the girl taking part in 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’ll be able to 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 stated:
“How a lot worth would you place for being in her footwear for 10 minutes, not to mention 4 years?”
Choose Beverly Cannone hated Karen Learn, for thus many causes. She refused to simply accept the not-guilty verdicts a 12 months in the past – pressured her to lose one other 12 months of her life. Double jeopardy is what it was.
Now, Karen Learn’s civil case is likely to be filed in federal courtroom, however extra seemingly in Plymouth, the place the doomed O’Keefe case has one other motions listening to Sept. 22.
The issue is, or is likely to be, because the second failed necktie social gathering, 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, nevertheless slight, that Cannone may 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 stated that regardless of the hypothesis on social media, it’s not taking place.
“Our case is in Plymouth,” he stated, “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 one among my neighbors had discarded an affordable nylon bag that bore the title of District Lawyer Michael Morrissey.
Yesterday, it occurred to me that it’d 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 stated. “On the reward store. Have you learnt 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 stated, “to have one among these in Norfolk County?”
Not anymore, Karen.
They misplaced. They misplaced. They misplaced huge time.
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