FALL RIVER ─ A Board of Bar Overseers (BBO) disciplinary panel has recommended a high-ranking prosecutor in the Bristol County District Attorney’s office, Karen H. O’Sullivan, be suspended from practicing law for two years in connection with her role in the prosecution of a 17-year-old Asian-American teenager, Frances Choy, accused of killing her parents in a house fire in Brockton in 2003.
O’Sullivan, and her then Plymouth County District Attorney (DA) co-counsel, John E. Bradley Jr., were found to have exchanged racially explicit emails and failed to release important exculpatory evidence in the case against Frances Choy.
The BBO’s panel recommended that Bradley face a one-year and a day suspension…