Published at 9:55 AM, February 17, 2025
DEDHAM, Mass. (Court Television)– A Massachusetts physician implicated of eliminating his partner desires access to her medical records for breast improvement surgical treatment, arguing they will assist in his defense in his approaching murder trial.
Dr. Ingolf Tuerk appeared in Norfolk County court recently for a hearing to deal with evidentiary and logistical concerns before a trial arranged for March. Tuerk is implicated of strangling to death other half Kathleen McLean in their Dover home in May 2020 and disposing her body in a neighboring pond.
Dr. Ingolf Tuerk appears in court Feb. 12, 2025. (Court Television)
Tuerk’s defense has actually argued in court files that McLean passed away throughout an inebriated battle in between the 2 over their relationship. The couple had actually just recently dropped efforts to divorce each other, according to defense filings, and were trying to fix up after a troubled duration that consisted of McLean reporting Tuerk to authorities for physical abuse and Tuerk’s suspicions that McLean was cheating on him.
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Unique Judge Mark Hallal heard a number of demands from Norfolk County district attorneys and the defense at the hearing, consisting of Tuerk’s movement for medical records worrying breast improvement surgical treatment that McLean went through with Tuerk’s financial backing.
Tuerk’s legal representative, Kevin Reddington, stated the records were needed to safeguard Tuerk versus the Commonwealth’s claims that Tuerk physically abused and separated McLean from loved ones, making her economically depending on him. Reddington stated Tuerk lent McLean the cash for the surgical treatment and she repaid him, recommending that McLean was not as defenseless as she represented herself to household, good friends and police.
“I have a right to reveal the nature of the relationship,” Reddington argued. “All of this enters into frame of mind … and whether there was an intent to eliminate.”
Assistant District Attorney Lisa Beatty advised the judge to reject the demand, calling it the defense’s most current effort to smear and “objectify” McLean with titillating information from her individual life.
“This is a broad movement for medical records about a female’s individual choice to have optional surgical treatment,” Beatty argued. “It serves to objectify and pity her for surgical treatment she had every right to have.”
Beatty questioned why the defense wished to utilize McLean’s medical records rather of bank records to reveal the deal. The judge likewise recommended monetary records might make the very same point without invading McLean’s personal health details.
Tuerk’s defense likewise asked to move the trial from Norfolk County to surrounding Suffolk County based upon prejudicial pretrial promotion, a demand the Commonwealth opposed. The Commonwealth stated it meant to submit a movement asking for a jury view of pertinent places in the event. The defense stated it would not oppose the movement.
Judge Hallal stated he would release judgments on the demands in the coming days.
