The attorney representing Brian Walshe — the Cohasset man accused of killing his wife, Ana, in early 2023 — has told NBC10 Boston he plans to file a motion…
Walshe's defense attorney, Larry Tipton, told NBC10 Boston that he has not yet concluded there is any investigator bias involving his client, but what he’s heard in the Karen Read case has raised his suspicionsThe unprofessional conduct Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor has admitted to on the stand in the Karen Read murder trial is now set to impact another high-profile homicide case he's connected to.Proctor has been on the stand testifying in the Read trial this week.
Walshe's defense attorney, Larry Tipton, told NBC10 Boston that he has not yet concluded there is any investigator bias involving his client, but what he’s heard in the Read case has raised his suspicions. His motion will name Proctor, Tipton said, as well as any other investigator implicated in the Read case.
Thousands of convictions were wiped off the books after two chemists at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute were found to have tampered with and falsified evidence, a major 2012 scandal that led to the lab's closure. Shira Diner, an instructor at the Defender Clinic at Boston University, believes these developments could impact Proctor's involvement at the Walshe trial.
"It is always going to be relevant," Diner said."The issue of bias is never collateral to anything. It's sort of at the root of what we are asking our jurors to do."
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