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🌱 Patch AM: Why prosecutors insist the ex-Stoughton detective be tried in Massachusetts

Also, don't miss Handel's Messiah Sing in Easton on the Stoughton Patch calendar

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  • Why prosecutors insist the ex-Stoughton detective be tried in Massachusetts

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📰 News we're reading

• US says Matthew Farwell should be tried in Mass. in Sandra Birchmore case (bostonglobe.com) — A former Stoughton police detective, Matthew Farwell, is accused in federal court of killing Sandra Birchmore after allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with her that began when she was a minor and continued for years. Prosecutors want his trial held in Massachusetts despite his request to move it to Rhode Island, arguing local publicity doesn’t justify a change of venue.
   

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