Brian Walshe , the Cohasset man who allegedly killed and dismembered his wife in 2023, has a hearing on Friday in Norfolk Superior Court to determine whether he’s competent to stand trial, after a violent jailhouse attack in September left him briefly hospitalized.

Walshe , 50, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, disinterring a body, and lying to investigators in the Jan. 1, 2023, slaying of Ana Walshe , 39.

If Judge Diane C. Freniere deems Walshe competent, j ury selection in his murder trial could begin next week, records show.

Walshe, who’s being held without bail, was “attacked and stabbed multiple times by another inmate,” at the Norfolk County House of Correction and Jail in Dedham on Sept. 11, his lawyers wrote last month in a court filing. “This attack w

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