The public record
A jury acquitted the driver in 2022. Westwood then charged the father for flyers. This site is the paper that is already public — including the detective’s own line that nothing posted violated the order.
Where it stands
Last public day: Friday, September 11, 2026. Next: Monday, September 14, 2026, 9 a.m., Dedham District Court.
- Next
- Monday, September 14, 2026, 9 a.m., Dedham District Court.
- Live
- 2654CR000599 counts 1 and 4 remain. No public map of those two counts to a statute. 2454CR1167 / 1579 / 1601 — status after Friday is unclear.
- Friday
- Directed verdicts of not guilty on 2654CR000599 counts 2, 3, 5, and 6. Motion to dismiss for discovery violations denied.
- Not public
- The 90-page McInnis–Aylward export produced Day 2. The 258E order PDFs. Which statute is count 1 or count 4.
On November 19, 2017, Anne Marie McInnis struck Rob Thomson and 6-year-old Eddie Thomson in a Westwood crosswalk. Eddie died two days later. In November 2022 a Norfolk Superior jury found McInnis not guilty of the main crash counts.
After that verdict Thomson posted flyers about the crash. Westwood Police and the Commonwealth charged him with criminal harassment, witness intimidation, and violating harassment-prevention orders.
On September 11, 2026, in Dedham District Court, the judge entered directed verdicts of not guilty on counts 2, 3, 5, and 6 of docket 2654CR000599. Counts 1 and 4 on that docket remain. Three 2024 dockets were left unclear. A motion to dismiss for discovery violations was denied. Trial continues Monday, September 14, 2026.
This site uses news stories, Westwood Police reports posted by court-watchers, and testimony described in court this week. It does not contain the 90-page family-to-detective text dump produced at trial. That dump is not public.
Lines already in the paper
Hedberg, 2300010973: sidewalk sign at Pond and Clapboardtree. No authority to stop it. First Amendment. Go civil.
Aylward, January 19, 2024: “I reviewed the McInnis vs. Thomson HPO orders and determined that nothing posted violated the order.”
In this record
Public sources only. Open a page for the full file.
The case
The file
- PipelineWho texted the detective, and which of those texts are public.
- CamerasTrail cam, plate readers, NESPIN, the Flock letter. Dates, not stills.
- OfficersThe names on the reports, and the posted POST rows.
- DiscoveryDay 2’s 90 pages, the missing flyer-woman log, Friday’s ruling.
- PhotosReport scans and watcher photos that this archive actually holds.
- GapsThe order PDFs, the stills, the dump, the count map.
The law
- HPOAylward, January 19, 2024: nothing posted violated the order.
- SpeechHedberg called the sign speech. O’Brien limits 258E. The pole statute they did not use.
- 13BThe statute built for threats to witnesses, used after a jury already said not guilty.
- AccountabilityUncharged statutes. Posted POST rows. IAD stays sealed.