Lower court charges against the blogger known as Turtleboy were dropped following his indictment in Norfolk Superior Court.

“The Commonwealth hereby enters a Nolle Prosequi on the above entitled case pursuant to Rule 16 of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure,” a special prosecutor in the case, Robert Novack, wrote in a Dedham District Court filing.

Dedham District Court charges against Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney, 42, of Holden, were officially dropped at a short hearing early Monday morning.

He was indicted in the nearby Norfolk Superior Court and arraigned Friday on two counts related to a domestic violence case that had been prosecuted at the nearby district court. Those charges are intimidation of a witness and disclosure of a wiretap related to an alleged Christmas Eve 2023 incident with an ex-girlfriend. The indicted charges drop the charge of assault and battery on a household member he faced at the district court.

Kearney defense attorney Timothy Bradl told the Herald that he doesn’t think prosecutors are “interested in giving Aidan any breaks.”

“I would expect that if they thought the (assault) charge had any merit to it, they would have brought it along to the Superior Court,” Bradl said. “So I am expecting a disclosure regarding why they abandoned the charge. I believe there is an exculpatory reason and that must be disclosed.”

Special prosecutor Novack filed the nolle prosequi the same day as the indictment. The document type’s name translates from the Latin as “not to wish to prosecute,” according to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. Such filings are often made at the district court level when a matter is elevated to a higher court as is the case here.

Kearney was also indicted on 16 counts related to Kearney’s writing — and ardent defense activism — in the case of Mansfield’s Read, who authorities accuse of murdering her boyfriend of two years, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, by striking him with her car after a night out in Canton in late January 2022.

Kearney appeared at the Superior Court later Monday as a spectator in the latest hearing in the Read matter.

Novack is filling in for fellow Fall River attorney and appointed special prosecutor Kenneth Mello, who is reportedly sick.