Attorney Larry Tipton Wikipedia, Age, Brian Walshe Trial, Biography

Larry Tipton Biography – Larry Tipton Wiki

Larry Tipton is a criminal defense attorney in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He previously worked for the Committee for Public Counsel Services as a top trial lawyer for the public defender agency in Boston, Massachusetts. He is now in private practice.

Attorney Tipton received a B.A. degree from Berklee College of Music in 1981, and earned his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 1988. He was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1988 and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 1998.

He is the defense attorney in the murder trial of Brian Walshe, the Cohasset man accused of murdering and dismembering his wife, Ana Walshe, in January 2023. During opening statements at Norfolk Superior Court on December 1, 2025, Tipton explained the death of Ana as “sudden unexpected death.”

Titpon described a loving marriage marred only by Walshe’s pending sentence in a federal fraud case that had put physical distance between Brian, under house arrest in Cohasset, and Ana, who worked in Washington, D.C. He then told the jury that “sudden unexplained death” is medical phenomenon that few people without medical expertise understand or even know about.

Larry Tipton Age

Defense attorney Larry Tipton was born in 1959.

Brian Walshe Attorney Larry Tipton

Larry Tipton is the lawyer for Brian Walshe, a Massachusetts man accused of murdering his wife Ana Walshe, a real estate agent who immigrated from Serbia. Ana was last seen early on Jan. 1, 2023, following a New Year’s Eve dinner at her Massachusetts home. Her body has never been found.

Attorney Tipton said that defendant Brian Walshe found his wife Anna dead in their bedroom in his opening statement to the jury on December 1, 2025, in Norfolk Superior Court, Dedham, Massachusetts. He argued this was not a case of murder but what he called a “sudden unexplained death” of Ana Walshe. He portrayed a couple who loved each other and were planning for the future before Ana Walshe died after celebrating New Year’s Eve with her husband and a friend.

“When he entered the bedroom and began to get into bed, he sensed something was wrong. You will hear evidence that it made no sense to him,” Tipton told the jury. “He nudged Ana his wife. She didn’t respond. He nudged her again a little harder. She didn’t respond. He nudge her now in a panicked and frantic reaction to where she actually rolled off the bed.”

According to the Patriot Ledger, Tipton downplayed the affair Ana Walshe was having with Washington, D.C., real estate broker, William Fastow, the man who sold Ana the $1.3 million townhouse she owned in the capital.