Brian Walshe, the Cohasset, Massachusetts, man accused of killing his wife, Ana, and dismembering her body in 2023, appeared in court on Wednesday as his lawyers question the integrity of Norfolk County’s murder investigations.
Walshe looked neat as he was led into Norfolk Superior Court, dressed in a suit and restrained by handcuffs. Judge Beverly Cannone presided over the hearing, which was brief and continued to Dec. 2 to give the parties additional time to review a large amount of discovery.
Walshe’s defense team, headed by established Massachusetts attorney Larry Tipton, filed a motion requesting a large amount of documents pertaining to Norfolk County law enforcement, in response to the scandals that have rocked the county recently: the Karen Read murder trial and the alleged killing of Sandra Birchmore by a Stoughton detective…