Overview
- State attorneys opened by highlighting Proctor’s crude texts about Karen Read and findings that he shared nonpublic case information and drank while on duty.
- Proctor’s lawyer argued the termination was predetermined and politically driven, saying Proctor believed his personal phone texts were private and that federal investigators accessed them.
- A State Police trial board in March sustained multiple counts of unsatisfactory performance and an alcoholic beverage violation, resulting in Proctor’s firing.
- The appeal continues Wednesday and will resume for additional days in October, with discovery to be produced to Proctor’s team by then.
- Proctor is seeking broad records of other troopers’ discipline to argue disparate treatment, as defense teams in other cases pursue his files following scrutiny of the O’Keefe investigation.