Law Blog, a publication of the Wall Street Journal, reports that:

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld both the conviction of the state’s only death-row inmate and the constitutionality of the state’s death-penalty-law.

But the court put off a definitive ruling on whether the death penalty was correctly imposed on the defendant, who was convicted of killing a police officer in 2006.

In a 243-page, highly anticipated ruling, the five-judge court unanimously rejected a host of arguments made by lawyers of Michael Addison, who was convicted in 2006 of murdering a Manchester, N.H., police officer. Mr. Addison, 33 years old, shot officer Michael Briggs while Mr. Briggs was attempting to arrest Mr. Addison in connection with a number of armed robberies.