Nearly four years after a jury sentenced Michael K. Addison to death for the 2006 slaying of a Manchester police officer, the state Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will hear oral arguments in his appeal this fall.

The high court set aside 3 1/2 hours on Nov. 14 to hear arguments on 22 major issues being raised by the defense. They include the constitutionality of the state’s death penalty, whether the trial court erred in not granting the defense request to move the trial to another court and other procedural issues, and whether “passion, prejudice or other arbitrary factors” influenced the jury.

A Hillsborough County Superior Court jury found Addison, 32, formerly of Manchester and Boston, guilty of capital murder in 2008 for fatally shooting Officer Michael L. Briggs, 35, in the head Oct. 16, 2006. On Dec. 18, jurors unanimously imposed the death sentence; the judge formally sentenced him Dec. 22 to death.