State trooper Michael Proctor will face a termination hearing before a State Police trial board on January 15th. 

Proctor has been suspended without pay since the end of the Karen Read trial over the death of her Boston cop boyfriend John O'Keefe, which ended in a mistrial in July. 

Norfolk DA Michael Morrissey has warned the courts that Proctor faces possible immediate and permanent discipline at that hearing. 

Read's attorneys say she was framed by Proctor and others, with his crude texts about Read coming out during shocking testimony at her trial.