Days before a deadline to appoint a new prosecutor , Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office dropped charges against the blogger Aidan Kearney , known as “Turtleboy,” in one of the three pending cases against him.

Last month, a judge gave the district attorney’s office 30 days to find a new prosecutor for the 2024 indictments against Kearney after Robert Cosgrove, the retired judge prosecuting the case, withdrew. Cosgrove withdrew from the case after Lindsey Gaetani, an ex-girlfriend of Kearney’s who is the named victim in the indictment, filed a counterclaim against him in a separate defamation case brought by Kearney.

The other special prosecutor on the case, Ken Mello, was disqualified by Doolin because of communications with Gaetani during the time of the in

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