Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case will only be allowed to turn over communications between the defendant and activist blogger Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney, a ruling made just days ahead of jury selection beginning in the second trial.

Judge Adam Sisitsky has maintained that the order he issued last week is solely for communications between Read and Kearney, not their attorneys, that provide evidence of witness intimidation.

Hank Brennan, the special prosecutor in the Read case, has been trying to establish a “consciousness of guilt” on the defendant’s part and has argued that material shared with her and Kearney’s attorneys would help further depict that.

Robert Cosgrove, a special prosecutor in Kearney’s witness intimidation case, also argued that disclosure of communication with the attorneys would be required for the material between Read and Kearney to be thoroughly provided.

“The actions of Ms. Read’s attorneys on her behalf are the actions of Ms. Read,” Cosgrove said Friday. “If one reads the sweep of the communications between Mr. Yannetti and Mr. Kearney and between Mr. Jackson and Mr. Kearney, and Ms. Read and Mr. Kearney, one sees a pattern of feeding information to Mr. Kearney.”

“I think they act together in that respect,” he added.

Read, 45, of Mansfield is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence, and leaving the scene of an accident causing death. She’s accused of killing Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, her boyfriend of about two years at the time, on Jan. 29, 2022.

Read’s first trial ended in a mistrial last July. Jury selection is set to begin on Tuesday in the second trial.

Kearney, 43, of Holden, is a staunch defender of Read’s through his YouTube videos and a network of blogs and social media accounts under the “Turtleboy,” brand. He is charged with multiple counts of witness intimidation in the Read case.

Brennan argued Friday that the communications between Kearney and his attorneys and Read and her attorneys were not privileged, meaning he felt the prosecution should have access to them.

“I don’t think I need to hear any further on this,” Sisitsky said of the prosecution’s request for the communications to include the attorneys. “The order is clear on its face.”

The judge told Cosgrove to extract materials involving the attorneys before turning over the communications by the end of Monday.

Kearney’s attorney Timothy Bradl said he expects “exactly zero documents or texts or emails that should be responsive here.”

“There is no communication between Mr. Kearney and Ms. Read regarding witness intimidation,” he said. “There are none.”

A federal judge ruled Thursday that Read’s state retrial can proceed with all three charges, including murder, intact, denying her appeal.

Shortly after mistrial last year, the defense team said that members of the trial jury had come forward to say it was, despite three increasingly assertive notes indicating an impasse, only hung on the manslaughter charge and was ready to acquit on the other two charges, including manslaughter, but did not know they could return a partial verdict.

The defense argued that retrying Read on the two charges the jury would have acquitted her on would violate her constitutional protections from Double Jeopardy — or being tried again on the same charges after being found innocent.