Canton Coverup Part 484: Hank Brennan’s Opposition To Motion To Dismiss Blames Everything On Adam Lally And Canton Police, Debunked By Screenshot Of Videos From First Trial

 

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Yesterday Spanky Brennan and the Commonwealth filed their opposition to Karen Read’s motion to dismiss, and it’s as pathetic as you imagined it would be. He claims that the defense never filed a motion to preserve surveillance video from the Canton Police Department, so they didn’t violate Rule 14 because surveillance video wasn’t included on the defense’s list.

But they clearly did:

Spanky’s reasoning? The defense asked for all physical evidence from the crime scene, and the Canton Police Department is not the alleged crime scene.

Yet Nicholas Guarino referred to the Canton Police Department as the crime scene in a February 4, 2022 report, when he said that Michael Proctor picked up John O’Keefe’s phone “while on scene.” Michael Morrissey previously stated that Proctor never went to 34 Fairview Road, and that “the scene” referred to in this report was CPD.

The defense alleges that a new video given to them on January 28, 2025 from OUTSIDE the CPD Sallyport garage is the correct angle to show the condition of Karen Read’s right rear taillight, but that the video is too blurry for them to see who was going into the garage or what the taillight looked like. According to Spanky it’s no biggie though because the poor quality meant that neither side could benefit from the tape, and there was another video angle showing the car enter the garage.

Question – why is Karen Read the only one who seems to wanna see these videos? If the Commonwealth is so convinced she is guilty shouldn’t they be the ones trying to get these videos? Shouldn’t Karen Read be attempting to suppress the videos? Either way, the problem with the “different camera angle” from the other video is that the right rear taillight can’t be seen, which Spanky is well aware of.

Spanky’s defense seems to be “they never gave it to us.”

But it doesn’t matter. This is on the Commonwealth. It’s their job to hound CPD until they get the videos, not blame them for not doing their job. Regardless, Karen Read had a right to all of this video and it wasn’t provided to them, which is a Brady violation and warrants dismissal of all charges.

During the trial the defense received two videos – the inverted video and the dark video you couldn’t see. Spanky claims that a video technician for the Commonwealth “clarified the video footage” and on October 10, 2024 the defense received “clarified videos,” so that they could actually see what was happening.

There is no excuse for not providing this during the first trial.

Spanky claims that the non-inverted version of the CPD garage video was played by the Commonwealth at trial. But that didn’t happen until the next day, after it was all over the news that they played the inverted video and didn’t alert the jury. Spanky claims that the video shows Michael Proctor never touched the car, and was standing feet away from it.

The video does not show that at all. You can only see his head and it’s unclear how long he far away from the vehicle he was. He looks to be right next to it, but his body and hands are hidden.

On April 17, a day into jury selection, Chief Rafferty once again decided it would be a good time to send over some more video she forgot that she had lying around. It’s not Spanky’s fault though, because he didn’t know of its existence.

Helena Rafferty and Adam Lally both need to be called as witnesses for this trial, and Lally should be recused as a prosecutor. These people shouldn’t be able to blame each other at Karen Read’s expense.

Commonwealth is saying that they didn’t hand over Canton Police Sallyport video because they didn’t know it existed, because investigating officers didn’t tell them about it. The first videos they handed over were on April 4, 2024 – weeks AFTER Karen Read filed her motion to dismiss. Thus she could not include this devastating evidence of Rule 14 violations in the MTD.

And sure, the quality of the video is poor, but they’ve fixed the problem since then so the next person framed for murder will have a better chance to prove their innocence.

As has been pointed out by online sleuths, the Commonwealth appears to be lying about not receiving these videos before April 4, 2024. During the trial the Commonwealth showed a folder of all their Sallyport videos, and several are date June 2023.

This wasn’t on oversight, it was malicious. Adam Lally needs to explain himself.

As for the jury tampering claims in the MTD, the Commonwealth confirmed that these were about Lt. John Fanning’s overseeing of the jury, resulting in a juror who was making faces that she believed Karen Read was not guilty, being dismissed on the final day of the trial. This juror was reported to have been speaking about the trial 6 weeks prior at a bar.

Spanky complains that Alan Jackson said in a Boston 25 News interview that Fanning was “the very person governing the jury.”

But at no point does he or Ted Daniel ever mention the name Fanning.

Brennan claims that Fanning had nothing to do with the jury and was simply working security outside.

I was at almost every day of the trial. Not once did I ever see John Fanning.

So basically Hank Brennan’s response to the very serious allegations of the Commonwealth withholding evidence was:

• “It wasn’t me”
• that evidence might’ve helped or hurt both sides, so no harm no foul

In any court that actually sought justice this entire case would be thrown out. But the problem is that Beverly Cannone gets to make that decision, and the odds that any of this means a damn thing to her are slim to none.