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<p>MILFORD &#8212; A prosecutor asked jurors Tuesday to deliver &#8220;full justice&#8221; in the trial of a man accused of killing a police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 sniper attack at their barracks, calling the defendant an assassin who targeted law enforcement in hopes of sparking a revolution.</p><p>Eric Frein &#8220;slithered through the underbrush&#8221; in the dark of night, concealed himself in woods across the street from the Blooming Grove barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania, and took aim at Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and Trooper Alex Douglass during a late-night shift change, Pike County First Assistant District Attorney Bruce DeSarro told the panel during his opening statement.</p><p>&#8220;Right then and right there, Cpl. Dickson&#8217;s service and his watch on behalf of all of us came to an end,&#8221; DeSarro said.</p><p>Douglass, he added, has endured 18 surgeries in the wake of the ambush on Sept. 12, 2014. Douglass was in the courtroom Tuesday and is expected to testify.</p><p>Dickson was a Wyoming Area graduate.</p><p>Frein, 33, faces a potential death sentence if he&#8217;s convicted.</p><p>Wearing a suit, he listened stoically as the prosecutor methodically laid out the case against him, describing the attack, the chaotic aftermath, Frein&#8217;s escape and the 48-day manhunt that followed.</p><p>DeSarro told the jury that U.S. marshals captured one of the FBI&#8217;s most-wanted fugitives at an abandoned airplane hangar where authorities also found the murder weapon &#8212; a semi-automatic rifle &#8212; with Frein&#8217;s DNA on it.</p><p>After speaking for an hour and 40 minutes, DeSarro asked the jury to provide &#8220;nothing less, and I mean nothing less, than full justice.&#8221; The words were spelled out in giant blue letters on a TV screen as DeSarro said them.</p><p>Frein&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s opening statement, meanwhile, took only six minutes.</p><p>Defense lawyer Michael Weinstein reminded jurors that Frein is presumed innocent and said the government must prove its case. Frein won&#8217;t take the stand, he said, but jurors will get to know him when they watch a videotaped interview that police conducted on the night of his arrest.</p><p>&#8220;It will give you a chance to meet Eric. It will give you a chance to see what he&#8217;s like,&#8221; Weinstein said.</p><p>The defense had tried to suppress Frein&#8217;s confession, asserting police had violated his right to remain silent, but a judge ruled the jury would be permitted to see it.</p><p>DeSarro showed jurors the crumpled notebook pages that police found during the manhunt &#8212; part of a journal written in Frein&#8217;s hand in which the gunman describes how he &#8220;got a shot around 11 p.m. and took it,&#8221; watching one of his victims fall &#8220;still and quiet.&#8221;</p><p>DeSarro also showed them portions of a letter that authorities say Frein wrote to his parents while on the run.</p><p>&#8220;Our nation is far from what it was and what it should be,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;There is so much wrong and on so many levels only passing through the crucible of another revolution can get us back the liberties we once had &#8230; Tension is high at the moment and the time seems right for a spark to ignite a fire in the hearts of men.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2015, file photo, Eric Frein is led away by Pennsylvania State Police Troopers at the Pike County Courthouse after his preliminary hearing in Milford, Pa. Attorneys for Frein, charged in the 2014 ambush slaying of Pennsylvania Police Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, are asking a judge on the eve of his trial to throw out his videotaped confession. (Butch Comegys/The Times &amp; Tribune via AP, File) </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/web1_115881869-838e4eb128904624be8071eecea22b57-2.jpg</photo0><caption0>FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2015, file photo, Eric Frein is led away by Pennsylvania State Police Troopers at the Pike County Courthouse after his preliminary hearing in Milford, Pa. Attorneys for Frein, charged in the 2014 ambush slaying of Pennsylvania Police Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, are asking a judge on the eve of his trial to throw out his videotaped confession. (Butch Comegys/The Times &amp; Tribune via AP, File) </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/web1_115881869-055713a644ad4d12884d652239bdc6c8-2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">The legal defense team for Eric Frein, an anti-government survivalist accused of killing a Pennsylvania police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 ambush at their barracks, arrive for the first day of Frein&#8217;s trial Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at the Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pa. Frein could face a death sentence if convicted in the sneak attack in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, critically wounded Trooper Alex Douglass and led to a 48-day manhunt in the Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals captured Frein. (Mike Mullen/The Times-Tribune via AP) </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/web1_115881869-055713a644ad4d12884d652239bdc6c8-2.jpg</photo1><caption1>The legal defense team for Eric Frein, an anti-government survivalist accused of killing a Pennsylvania police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 ambush at their barracks, arrive for the first day of Frein&#8217;s trial Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at the Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pa. Frein could face a death sentence if convicted in the sneak attack in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, critically wounded Trooper Alex Douglass and led to a 48-day manhunt in the Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals captured Frein. (Mike Mullen/The Times-Tribune via AP) </caption1><photoCredit1></photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/web1_115881869-7e33bad41f96409195554ce5ad95b870-2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin, front center, arrives for the first day of the trial of Eric Frein, an anti-government survivalist accused of killing a Pennsylvania police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 ambush at their barracks, on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at the Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pa. Frein could face a death sentence if convicted in the sneak attack in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, critically wounded Trooper Alex Douglass and led to a 48-day manhunt in the Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals captured Frein. (Mike Mullen/The Times-Tribune via AP) </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/web1_115881869-7e33bad41f96409195554ce5ad95b870-2.jpg</photo2><caption2>Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin, front center, arrives for the first day of the trial of Eric Frein, an anti-government survivalist accused of killing a Pennsylvania police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 ambush at their barracks, on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at the Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pa. Frein could face a death sentence if convicted in the sneak attack in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, critically wounded Trooper Alex Douglass and led to a 48-day manhunt in the Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals captured Frein. (Mike Mullen/The Times-Tribune via AP) </caption2><photoCredit2></photoCredit2></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By MICHAEL RUBINKAM</p><p>Associated Press</p></bylineMeta></div>

Jury hears opening statements in Frein trooper-ambush trial