This is LONG but:
โAll Hail The Queenโ ๐
Rosemary Scapicchio has been the absolute bulldog of this entire saga, and her impact cannot be overstated. While the Karen Read case dominated the headlines, Scapicchio was quietly and aggressively fighting a massive legal battle behind the scenes that has blown the doors off the entire thing.
She saw the "institutional rot" before almost anyone else did and realized that if Michael Proctor was behaving this way while investigating Myles King, he was doing it to other people, too. Those people NEEDED to know and she was going to see to it.
She Stopped the Feds from Destroying the Evidence! This is her biggest victory. There was a federal destruction order that was set to wipe out Proctor's iCloud and phone data that had been gathered during the federal probe. Scapicchio rushed to court alongside other defense attorneys and successfully fought to have that order extended, forcing the federal government to preserve the materials. If she hadn't intervened, those thousands of vile, unredacted texts might have literally been deleted forever.ย
Scapicchio represents Myles King, a Black man facing a first-degree murder charge who was also investigated by Proctor. She tenaciously argued that Proctor's documented bigotry in the Read case proved he was incapable of conducting an unbiased investigation. She didn't just want the texts about Read; she demanded over a decade of his personal communications to prove a systemic pattern of racism and misogyny.
When Scapicchio subpoenaed Proctor to appear in court for a hearing regarding these records, he decided to just not show up, his lawyer later said he was on a pre-planned vacation. Scapicchio immediately blasted him on camera, loudly pointing out that he "thinks he's above the law." She refused to let him quietly dodge accountability.ย Sound familiar?
Because of her relentless push for discovery in the Myles King case, Karen Read's civil team was able to access the exact same records to build their explosive lawsuit. She essentially provided the blueprint and the evidence that every other defense attorney in Norfolk County is now using!
All Hail The Queen ๐
@RosemaryScapicc
๐โ๏ธ The new lawsuit we filed last week against MSP and Canton PD is already having a wider impact.