MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - A defense attorney says an insanity defense is unlikely in the trial of a man charged with fatally ambushing a Pennsylvania state trooper and wounding a second trooper near a rural barracks in eastern Pennsylvania.

Attorney William Ruzzo said during a hearing Friday that an insanity or diminished capacity defense isn't planned for 33-year-old Eric Frein (freen).The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2hnaqes) says Ruzzo declined to comment after the hearing.Jury selection is slated in March in Chester County, outside Philadelphia, for a panel to be bused to Pike County.Frein is charged with killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and wounding another trooper outside the Blooming Grove barracks in September 2014.He led police on a tense 48-day manhunt before U.S. marshals caught him about 30 miles from the shooting scene.---Information from: The Times-Tribune,

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