The highest court in Pennsylvania on Friday confirmed the death sentence and conviction of a sniper who killed one Pennsylvania state soldier and injured another.
The decision of the Supreme Court of the State confirms the decisions of the courts below in the case Eric Frein, who was convicted of the murder of the cape. Bryon Dickson II outside the Blooming Grove Barracks. Another soldier, Alex Douglass, was seriously injured.
The evidence presented at trial was sufficient to justify the conviction of Frein.
The court also dismissed several challenges from Frein's lawyers, including one in which they asserted that the trial judge had violated Frein's right to silence and the right to counsel by allowing the jury to see his interview with the police. recorded on video after his arrest.
Brake directed the authorities during a 48-day manhunt through the rugged Pocono Mountains before the US marshals caught him.
