Jury selection is weeks away in the trial of Eric Frein, the self-styled revolutionary who shot and killed Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Bryon Dickson II more than two years ago.
Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin said Thursday jury selection is scheduled to begin March 9, followed by the start of the trial April 3.
By order of the state Supreme Court, jurors will be picked from Chester County to participate in the trial at the Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pennsylvania.
Frein, 33, faces a dozen charges, including first-degree murder, first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer and possession of weapons of mass destruction.
His ambush the night of Sept. 12, 2014, outside the Blooming Grove barracks in Pike County also wounded Trooper Alex Douglass. During a 48-day manhunt that followed, Frein stayed ahead of local, state and federal pursuers focused on a wide swath of Pike County and neighboring Monroe County, where Frein had lived.
He was finally captured by U.S. Marshals the following Oct. 30, in an abandoned airplane hangar at Birchwood-Pocono Airpark in Monroe County.
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A judge last month barred evidence of insanity or mental infirmity on Frein’s behalf.
The prosecution plans to seek the death upon conviction.
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