STOUGHTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell’s attorneys are filing paperwork requesting the murder trial be moved out of Massachusetts.
Farwell is accused of killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore.
Farwell’s lawyers said he would not get a fair trial in Massachusetts because of media coverage of the case.
A judge previously denied this request.
Prosecutors claim Farwell groomed Birchmore for sex when she was just 15-years-old and part of the Stoughton police mentorship program. In 2021, Birchmore was found dead at her Canton apartment in what initially appeared to be a suicide, until Farwell was indicted in 2024 on charges that he staged her murder. He has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.
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