Overview
- Norfolk Superior Court Judge Michael Doolin took Read’s motion under advisement after a Dedham hearing Thursday.
- The Norfolk district attorney asked to keep the two iPhones while it considers an appeal and awaits a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision it says could affect the case.
- Judge Peter Krupp denied the Commonwealth’s request on January 30 to search the phones, and his opinion remains impounded.
- Defense attorney Ben Urbelis argues prosecutors waited about 19 months after the January 2024 seizure to seek a data-extraction warrant and says the devices should be returned immediately.
- The phones were seized during a probe into alleged witness tampering tied to blogger Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney, which resulted in no indictment of Read.