Jennifer Coffindaffer@CoffindafferFBI
Kelsey Fitzsimmons
She's a former police officer for North Andover PD in MA.
She is accused of assault when officers from her own department went to her home to serve her with a protective order because a judge found probable cause that she assaulted her then fiancé and was danger to her baby (see link below).
Her trial starts tomorrow.
She asked for a bench trial which means a judge will decide whether to convict or not.
She was home on sick leave suffering, purportedly, from postpartum depression. I know this condition exists and is dangerous but the issue is, Kelsey has been arrested for alcohol related issues and domestic violence in the past way before she had a child. (She pled the DV down to a misdeamenor)
Her issues seems similar in ways to: The Bachelorette and Courtney Clenney.
Below are documents indicating her previous arrest for DV.
The prosecution will try to enter them via 404 B doctrine showing similar bad acts in the past to show her actions were a pattern, not due to postpartum.
We shall see if the judge allows them.
P.S. The trial judge recently relaxed her pretrial conditions. She is in her own place. This tells me the judge seems to think she does not pose a danger to herself or others.
Has he not seen her track record?
Her defense is that she didn't pull a gun on the officer, but that in fact she was going to kill herself.
I can't wait to hear this testimony.
I hope the judge allows this in. It is critical to explain Kelsey's pattern of behavior.
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