BARNSTABLE The trial for the man accused of killing Yarmouth police Sgt. Sean Gannon will be held in Barnstable Superior Court, a judge ruled last week.
Thomas Latanowich is facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting Gannon and his K-9 partner, Nero, while the officer was serving an arrest warrant for Latanowich in Marstons Mills in 2018.
Latanowich s attorney, Joseph Krowski, requested the trial be moved to an off-Cape court, arguing that it was impossible to get an impartial trial on Cape Cod.
Krowski contends there is such an overwhelmingly negative feeling in the community about his client that the court should move the trial to a different part of the state. He bolstered his argument by citing thousands of pages of news articles, photographs, opinion pieces, and social media posts about Gannon’s death.