Overview
- Lawyers for former FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. filed a motion in Miami-Dade Circuit Court seeking to set aside his murder conviction or obtain a hearing.
- The filing attaches excerpts from James "Whitey" Bulger’s handwritten manuscript and FBI interview reports seized in 2011 but said to have been withheld from the defense.
- Bulger’s writings, as quoted in the motion, assert that Connolly was framed and identify former FBI supervisor John Morris as Bulger’s source inside the bureau.
- Connolly’s team says the materials surfaced in 2024 inside a sealed envelope marked confidential following a prosecutor’s departure, prompting claims of Brady violations and a pattern of nondisclosure.
- Connolly, 85, was convicted in 2008 in the John Callahan killing and granted compassionate release in 2021, while Bulger was captured in 2011, convicted in 2013, and killed in prison in 2018.