TAUNTON — In a new legal filing, the special prosecutor for the domestic violence case against Taunton Mayor Shaunna O’Connell says he has plenty of evidence to convict her even if her husband refuses to testify.
That evidence includes including a 911 call recording, her husband Ted O’Connell’s injuries, her statements to police and a video recording of Shaunna O’Connell on top of Ted O’Connell’s car.
“The Commonwealth has numerous avenues to prove its case even in the absence of Mr. O’Connell’s testimony,” the special prosecutor wrote in his legal filing. The prosecutor asked the judge to deny Shaunna O’Connell’s recent motion to dismiss the case.
In July, Ted O’Connell told Taunton Police that his wife had bitten his left forearm and had struck him with a gasket scraper, which the police report also referred to as a small crowbar, according to a copy of the police narrative. Ted O’Connell allegedly told Taunton Police that his wife had struck him after an argument about a “marital issue.”