BOSTON (Court TV) — Prosecutors have approximately three months to decide whether to seek the death penalty for Matthew Farwell , who is accused of murdering Sandra Birchmore and staging her death to look like a suicide.

This photo provided by the Stoughton, Mass., Police Department shows Matthew Farwell, a former police officer who pleaded not guilty Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, to charges of killing a woman he is accused of sexually exploiting when she was underage and then trying to stage the death as a suicide after she told him she was pregnant. (Stoughton Police Department via AP)

A federal indictment filed in 2024 charges Farwell with murder and obstruction of justice. At the time of her death, Birchmore had been in a sexual relationship with Farwell for years; that relationship

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