Former Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell is due back in court Tuesday in connection with the Sandra Birchmore case.
Farwell is scheduled to appear in federal court in Boston at 11 a.m. for a change of venue hearing.
His lawyers have been pushing to move the trial out of state due to the amount of publicity the case has received.
Farwell is charged with killing Birchmore and her unborn child, accused of strangling her and staging her death to look like a suicide.
The 23-year-old Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment back in 2021. She was three months pregnant.
Farwell is accused of initiating a relationship with Birchmore when she was 15 years old and he was 26. He resigned from the Stoughton Police Department in 2022.
He has pleaded not guilty in connection with Birchmore’s death.
Federal prosecutors said in a court filing last month that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the government not to seek the death penalty in this case. The judge had given prosecutors until Jan. 20, 2026 to decide if they would seek the death penalty.
