Nov 5, 2006 2:44 pm US/Eastern
Capital Murder Defendant Faces Extradition Hearing
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Michael Addison, 26, is charged with killing Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs last month when Briggs answered a domestic disturbance call.
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Michael Addison appears before a judge Monday for a hearing on whether he should be extradited to New Hampshire to face a capital murder charge.
Addison, 26, is charged with killing Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs last month when Briggs answered a domestic disturbance call.
Addison was captured at his grandmother's apartment in Boston and is being held in the Suffolk County jail on $2 million bail while New Hampshire authorities seek his return.
New Hampshire prosecutors say they're confident Addison will be returned to face trial and possibly the death penalty.
Addison's lawyer has said Addison denies shooting Briggs and fears for his safety if he is returned to New Hampshire.
Attorney John Hayes, a Massachusetts public defender, said he would prefer that state troopers, not Manchester police, transport Briggs to New Hampshire. Hayes said he doesn't want someone to say Addison confessed in the back of a cruiser.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin, who heads the homicide division, said he has full confidence that Manchester police would behave professionally if asked to bring Addison back to the state.
Meanwhile, a Manchester District Court judge appointed public defenders Richard Guerriero and Donna Brown to defend him on the capital murder charge.
Guerriero helped obtain a plea bargain for the last man charged with capital murder in New Hampshire. In 1998, Gordon Perry pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing Epsom police Officer Jeremy Charron a year earlier. The state has not executed anyone since 1939 and no one is on death row.
Authorities say Briggs was shot 15 minutes before the end of his shift, when he and a fellow bicycle patrol officer responded to a domestic violence call involving a gunshot. Briggs' gun never left his holster, but prosecutors say two other officers shot back, as the gunman escaped.
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