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Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
In this hearing Special Prosecutor Ken Mello asks Judge Squires-Lee to bring sanctions against Kearney's attorney Tim Bradl for misidentifying as an attorney (the other as a paralegal) two persons so that they could speak to Kearney unrecorded. (Kearney is currently in jail for bail violations of a witness intimidation charge for a domestic that allegedly took place on Dec. 24th.)
Attorney Bradl said the Attorney classification was an obvious error (calling one an attorney and the other a paralegal. One works with Bradl and the other works for a first amendment rights non-profit. Their actual credentials were never made clear in court.) and that the motion said there were 60 calls when there were actually 6.
Preposed Sanctions included 10K in fines against Bradl and the court would monitor ALL future communications between Mr. Kearney and anyone else, including his attorney. This client/attorney privilege elimination was admitted to be unprecedented by DA Mello, but justified Mello believes, because the misidentification of the two as attorneys. He felt it was done with intent so that one of the woman, "a minion" of Kearney's according to the DA, could be instructed to further intimidate witnesses in the Karen Read case.
This fascinating exchange between the judge and DA Mello is real-life court. What is evidence? How much power does a judge have to levy these punishments Mello preposes? And under what circumstances, if any, should a defendant be stripped of his client/attorney privilege?
To see the video on Canton CommunityTv link here:
http://reflect-cctv-vod.cablecast.tv/CablecastPublicSite/show/2835?site=3