5/18/18
by News Department on 05/18/18Frein wants appeal...
An attorney for convicted cop killer Eric Matthew Frein said he believes Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court will agree state police illegally elicited a confession from his client, but that may not be enough to win a new trial.
Frein is seeking to overturn his conviction and death sentence for the Sept. 12, 2014, sniper attack outside the Blooming Grove state police barracks that killed Cpl. Bryon K. Dickson II of Dunmore and seriously wounded Trooper Alex T. Douglass of Olyphant.
William Ruzzo said the justices focused questions at a hearing Thursday on whether investigators violated Frein’s Miranda right to remain silent when they interrogated him shortly after his Oct. 30, 2014, arrest.
