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The state trooper who led the investigation into Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman whose murder trial in the death of her police officer boyfriend ended with a hung jury last week, was suspended without pay Monday, an agency spokesman said. The suspension of trooper Michael Proctor was effective immediately and came nearly one month after the investigator testified that he made derogatory comments about Read in text messages to friends, relatives and supervisors.
Hours after a judge declared a mistrial, Proctor was relieved of duty from his post at a state police unit within the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office. Massachusetts State Police Interim Col. John Mawn said the agency had opened an internal affairs investigation into allegations of “serious misconduct” raised at trial. That investigation is ongoing, the agency spokesman said Monday. The state police union did not respond to a request for comment.
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