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New Hampshire Supreme Court to hear Addison’s appeal

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CONCORD,N.H.- The New Hampshire Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal for Michael Addison, the man convicted of killing Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006.

Addison’s lawyers argue that, since the death penalty was abolished, his sentence should be commuted. Addison was found guilty of capital murder in 2008 and sentenced to death.

The death penalty was abolished in New Hampshire in 2019. Governor Kelly Ayotte, who prosecuted the case while serving as attorney general, said changing Addison’s sentence would be a “grave injustice” to Briggs.

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