State Police detective Michael Proctor has been terminated by the department. 

After a three day hearing before a State Police trial board, Proctor was found guilty of displaying bias in a homicide investigation in connection with his work on the Karen Read case.  He was also found guilty of sending derogatory and demeaning text messages about Read to his colleagues and friends. 

Proctor's firing comes less than two weeks before Read's retrial for the death of her Boston cop boyfriend John O'Keefe in 2022.