The head of the Massachusetts State Police says firing Michael Proctor was a “righteous decision” — and that he doesn’t expect the former trooper’s appeal to the Civil Service Commission to

Michael Proctor, the former lead investigator in the Karen Read case, was heckled outside the courthouse in Dedham Tuesday.

Michael Proctor, the former state trooper fired in connection with the Karen Read case, does not want to be grilled about that legal saga if questioned in a separate murder case, records show. Proctor had been scheduled to possibly testify at a pretrial hearing Tuesday in the King matter,