A lawyer for Karen Read blasted an attempt by a special prosecutor assigned to the witness intimidation cases against Aidan Kearney to search two of her phones, saying there was no legal justification for the state to hold on to the devices.

Last month, Robert Cosgrove, the retired judge appointed as special prosecutor in Kearney’s cases, sought a warrant to go through Read’s phones for evidence she and Kearney conspired to intimidate witnesses in her criminal case. Ahead of Read’s criminal trials, it was revealed that she passed information about her case to Kearney, the blogger known as “Turtleboy.”

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