Over two days next week, former Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Proctor’s fight to get his job back begins in earnest.
Proctor, the lead investigator in the Karen Read case, made headlines for the derogatory text messages he sent about Read during the investigation into the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe. He joined the State Police in May 2014 and was assigned to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office in September 2019.
Proctor was relieved of duty on July 1, 2024 — the same day Read’s first trial ended in a mistrial — and was then suspended without pay a week later. In each of his last two years as a full-time trooper, Proctor earned more than $102,000…