Attorney Bradl comments on unsealed search warrant in Karen Reed case:

I read the search warrant affidavit unsealed today in the Karen Read matter.  It appears to be a single spaced 30 page story about how the state police went to unbelievable lengths (taxpayer funded trip to California!) to try to establish … drumroll …that Aidan Kearney and Karen read communicated with each other.  It is an investigation without a crime.  It appears to me that there is zero evidence that Karen Read intended or had anything to do with any witness intimidation or interference, and rather is a woman fighting for her life as a target of a murder charge.  

She is entitled to wield inalienable rights under the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments to defend herself.   She also has a special right under our Massachusetts Constitution, which precedes and is the model for our US Constitution, in its Article 12, “to produce all proofs that may be favorable to [her].”  This provision gives her broad rights and privileges to explore all avenues in her defense--a sacrosanct right to defend herself.   She can share information with whomever she wants, speak out against her enemies, associate with anyone she pleases, and seek to keep it secret if she wants.  It is chilling to read about law enforcement poring through defense phone records and texts intended to be private and confidential, and then laying out these protected and legal actions as if they are elements of a crime  in an effort to destroy her.      

The prosecution is doubling down on defective theories of witness intimidation that we are in the process of attacking at the SJC in Mr. Kearney’s case.  Every freedom-loving citizen in the Commonwealth needs to hope and pray that the SJC finally takes up the matter and takes down the witness intimidation statute, the most odious intrusion on our rights since the bill of attainder or the writs of assistance.     

The only crime here is the robbery of privacy.