Canton Coverup Part 387: Conflicted State Police Lt. John Fanning Was In Charge Of Eliminating Juror Who Intended To Acquit Karen Read

 

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Multiple reliable sources have reported to Turtleboy Daily News that Lt. John Fanning, one of Michael Proctor’s supervisors from the Norfolk County DA’s Office, was in charge of overseeing the jury during the Karen Read trial. He was also the reason a juror who seemed inclined to vote not guilty was dismissed on the final day of the trial.

As I reported throughout the trial, there were two jurors in particular, both women, who made facial reactions that showed they were visibly disgusted with Michael Proctor during his testimony.

 

If I could see their reactions than so could Paul O’Keefe, Proctor, Brian Albert, Yuri Bukhenik, Brian Tully, Jennifer McCabe, and every other person who didn’t want to see Karen Read acquitted of murder.

On the final day of trial Brian Albert, Colin Albert, and Jennifer McCabe sat with the O’Keefe family. At least one juror reported feeling intimidated by Brian Albert staring him down. Juror #3, who shook her head and mouthed “what?”, seemingly in disbelief while Trooper Joseph Paul was explaining his theory of how John O’Keefe got his injuries from a motor vehicle collision, was brought into the courtroom prior to the jury being seated. She seemed agitated with what Judge Cannone told her and dismissed as a juror shortly thereafter.

I can now report with certainty that John Fanning reported to a court officer that this juror was allegedly speaking about the case weeks prior at a bar, and that the alleged infraction was caught on video. However, Fanning did not sign or write an affidavit swearing to this, nor did he provide the video to the court. In fact, Cannone did not speak with Fanning at all. She simply took his second hand story as fact and dismissed a juror who gave up 10 weeks of her life in order to perform her civic duty.

This juror seemed adamant about Read’s innocence based on her body language, and if she was visibly unconvinced by Trooper Paul’s testimony in particular then that means she believes John wasn’t struck by Karen’s car. That would mean she was a not guilty on manslaughter as well as murder. One can infer based on her behavior that she would’ve been a vocal leader as a juror, as opposed to a passive juror who was easily bullied and swayed. This is significant because several jurors have signed affidavits swearing that the vote was 6-6 on manslaughter before “bullying” began, which led to 2 or 3 jurors switching their votes to guilty. A strong willed, loudly opinionated voice in favor of not guilty could’ve convinced jurors to change their vote to not guilty.

Additionally, Juror #3 was also the same juror who reported Juror #5 on June 14, leading to that juror’s dismissal. Reliable sources have confirmed that Juror #5 said in the presence of all the other jurors that she was bothered by Karen Read turning around and smiling so much at her family. Three jurors – 3, 12, and 13 – reported her. All of them were called up to speak with Judge Cannone about this. And as luck would have it these were the exact three jurors who were eliminated and/or made alternates on the final day of the trial.

It’s outrageous that someone with such a vested interest in the outcome of the case as Lt. Fanning, who is friends with and works with some of the most controversial witnesses, would be in charge of the jury. Fanning was on the group text with Proctor where Proctor admitted to going through David Yannetti’s “retarded client’s” phone, looking for naked pictures of Read. He said nothing to admonish his underling for this egregious ethical violation.

Fanning was also a listed witness for the Commonwealth and participated in the investigation of Karen Read. He testified at two of my grand juries. He was at my house with Brian Tully the day I was arrested. He searched my home and found my notes, indicating that he and other members of the State Police were being investigated by the US Attorney’s Office.

 

Fanning took part in the interrogation of former Avon Police Dispatcher Jannell Webb, took her phone without a warrant, and looked through her messages with Turtleboy in order to indict her on bogus conspiracy to commit witness intimidation charges. To this day, eight months later, Webb has never been arraigned. They never had any intention of actually prosecuting her. They just needed to indict her on a conspiracy charge because they can’t indict me on a conspiracy charge if they don’t have a second party I allegedly conspired with.

Fanning was also seen at the homes of several citizens with Trooper Bukkake, demanding to know if they ever messaged Jennifer McCabe or Elizabeth Proctor. Additionally, he oversaw the botched Sandra Birchmore investigation, which was wrongly determined to be a suicide, and has since been taken over by the Attorney General’s Office after her death was changed to a homicide.

It’s pure corruption that someone as invested in the Read trial as Fanning was, would be able to hand pick a juror for removal who made it be known through her body language that she intended to be a strong voice for acquittal in the deliberation room.

If the video of Juror 3 talking about the case at a bar doesn’t exist then it’s blatant corruption on the part of Fanning. However, if it DOES exist then it should’ve been given to the judge. It wasn’t. And if it DOES exist then who took the video, and more importantly, how did they recognize Juror 3? If you weren’t inside that courtroom you wouldn’t be able to identify any of the jurors in public. This would mean that if a video DOES exist, that Juror 3, and likely every other juror, was followed by someone from the State Police. How else would they happen to know what bar she was at on a certain date? Juror 3 would’ve been able to tell Cannone she never went to a bar, if in fact she hadn’t.

It sounds like the most likely scenario is that the State Police knew Juror 3 was at a specific bar on a specific date, and they made up the story about having a video to have her kicked off the jury. That way Juror 3 couldn’t deny being at the bar.

Other questions I have:

• Does the Commonwealth often invite listed witnesses (Fanning was listed as a witness but never called) in murder trials to oversee the juries of those trials? Or only in cases where they’ve been accused of corruption and investigated by the FBI?
• Why was someone as high ranking as LT. John Fanning chosen to oversee the jury? It seems like a bitch job, so why couldn’t State Police stick some rookie on it? Why not a trooper from the Westfield barracks with no ties to Norfolk County?
• Why do the State Police have anything to do with any trial proceedings? Shouldn’t the court be in charge of that? Shouldn’t they have assigned a white shirt court officer to do the job Fanning was tasked with doing?

Then again, conflicts of interest are nothing new to Norfolk County officials. The entire basis of the coverup of John O’Keefe’s murder revolves around conflicts of interest. Michael Proctor is a close family friend of the Alberts and was offered a thank you gift by Julie Albert on the day Karen Read was arrested. Brian Tully played college football with Paul O’Keefe. Yuri Bukhenik’s brother is close friends with Kevin and Brian Albert.

But none of this mattered to the Norfolk County DA’s Office, so it’s not surprising that John Fanning was in charge of overseeing the jury in Karen Read’s trial. And it’s certainly not surprising that he hand picked a juror for removal who was going to vote to acquit the defendant.