Canton Coverup Part 425: Beverly Cannone Will Not Follow Protocol And Rotate Out As Judge In Norfolk County 

 

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According to a media post from Howie Carr on Sunday, Judge Beverly Cannone would not be the judge in Karen Read’s retrial for murder, currently scheduled to begin on January 27. However, he has since confirmed through the court that Cannone would not be following protocol, and would remain on the bench.

BREAKING:

More bad news for Meatball Morrissey's attempts to frame Karen Read.

Hearing from reliable sources that Judge Beverly "Auntie Bev" Cannone is OUT OUT OUT as of Jan. 1 as the boss of Norfolk Superior Court.

Her current title is Regional Administrative Justice — RAJ,…

— Howie Carr (@HowieCarrShow) October 20, 2024

Auntive Bev is the Regional Administrative Justice for Norfolk Superior Court.

There are several judges in Norfolk County, including many who are assigned to courtrooms inside Norfolk Superior Court where Cannone is. The judges rotate every few months, so the longer a case goes on the more judges will hear it. In Read’s case she has gone in front of both Cannone and Judge Peter Krupp. In July of 2023 Judge Daniel O’Shea was reassigned to the main courtroom, where the Read case was being heard.

But the RAJ has the power to insert themselves in whatever courtroom they wish, so long as it’s in the county over which they preside. Auntie Bev took the unprecedented step of removing O’Shea in the Read case, as she seems to really want to be the judge in Read’s case. This was one of several shady things she did that led to a motion to recuse from the defense, which Cannone ultimately denied after investigating herself and finding that she was not biased at all. According to her there was no appearance of bias when Matt McCabe’s brother (and Jen McCabe’s sister in law)began calling Cannone “Auntie Bev” in social media posts, and then sent me a threatening message vowing to bury my corpse under the lawn at Cannone’s “seaside cottage.”

As it turned out, Cannone does in fact own a seaside cottage, and Sean McCabe lives just a couple miles from the house in Barnstable.

Throughout the trial Cannone was incredibly biased towards the Commonwealth:

• She did not allow any mention of the federal investigation, which jurors have since said would have affected the outcome of the case. In particular, the jurors had no idea the ARCCA experts were hired by the FBI, and thus dismissed their testimony because they believed they had been paid for by Karen Read’s car insurance company.
• She ruled against motions from both the defense and the Commonwealth by allowing Jennifer and Allie McCabe to bring up alleged witness intimidation on the stand, which gave the jury the impression that Read was using outside parties to intimidate witnesses.
• She allowed an unverified screenshot of an alleged text message between Colin Albert and Allie McCabe to be entered into evidence.
• She made the defense fly in 3 expert witnesses to undergo a voir dire, in which she asked them probing questions that were designed to make it seem like they were not qualified to testify.
• She refused to allow pictures of Katie McLaughlin and Caitlin Albert to be entered into evidence, even though they would prove that McLaughlin perjured herself on the stand, because the court could not verify the pictures’ authenticity.
• She rudely sneered at the defendant by saying “is something funny Ms. Read?”
• She had me removed from the courtroom, despite having a credentialed press pass, because my presence got Julie Albert to say “Bukkake” twice, instead of “Bukhenik.”

It was just odd how determined this extremely biased judge was to stay on a case in which she claimed she wasn’t biased at all, despite the fact that her brother represented Chris Albert in his 1994 case when he went to jail for 6 months for killing Peter Berger in a highway hit and run. But as long as Cannone is RAJ in Norfolk there is no way to pull her off the Read case if she is determined to stay on.

That would’ve changed if Howie Carr’s latest news turned out to be true. He heard back from the court today, but there explanation didn’t make any sense:

“For that reason, several administrative justices and other leaders will in 2025 rotate out of those roles, including Judge Cannone from her role as Regional Administrative Justice in Norfolk County. Judge Cannone will continue to serve in Norfolk County in 2025 and will preside over the Commonwealth v. Karen Read case in January.”

So justices, including Cannone, are being rotated out of their current courts. And in the next sentence it says she’s not being rotated out, with no explanation as to why? This doesn’t clear anything up. It only verifies that she should be out, just like she should’ve been out last July, but the court is taking the unprecedented step to keep her on in the Read case. Almost as if they know that this is the only way to ensure that Read doesn’t get a fair trial.

If Cannone had been removed it would be a huge win for the defense. She is the biggest reason the first trial ended in a hung jury (even though they acquitted on two charges), and any other judge would be a huge improvement over her. The Read team would’ve immediately filed another motion to dismiss, and if it still went to a retrial they might’ve allowed mentioning of the very relevant federal investigation into the Norfolk County DA’s Office.

But alas, this is Norfolk County, and Karen Read will have to get justice in spite of the corruption.