EATONTON, Ga. — Draped in a green-colored blanket, Ricky Dubose sat calmly in an interview room at the Rutherford County, Tennessee sheriff’s office last June and described how he shot to death two Georgia correctional officers before he and another inmate escaped a prison transport bus in Putnam County, Georgia last June.

A videotaped recording of that interview was played during a hearing Wednesday morning for Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Alison T. Burleson. The hearing, one of many slated before Dubose’s death penalty trial, was held in the Putnam County Courtroom in Eatonton.

Dubose’s defense attorneys are seeking to keep the video recording of their client’s confession from being presented as evidence in the case when the trial begins.

Dubose is one of two inmates charged in the murders of Georgia Department of Corrections Sgt. Curtis Billue and Sgt. Chris Monica, both of whom were assigned to the transportation department and worked out of Baldwin State Prison in Milledgeville. The two men also lived in Milledgeville.

The other defendant is Donnie Rowe, who like Dubose, currently is involved in several pre-trial motion hearings.

Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Stephen A. Bradley is seeking the death penalty against Dubose and Rowe in separate trials.

Burleson is expected to render a ruling next week regarding whether to allow the taped interview to be played for jurors when the trial begins. As of Wednesday, court officials still had not determined a trial date.

Dubose told FBI Special Agent Nathan Opie and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Zackary Burkhart that he fired multiple shots into the bodies of Sgt. Billue, who was driving the prison transport bus at the time of the escape, and Sgt. Monica, who was sitting in a front passenger seat.

The interview with the lawmen came three days after Dubose and Rowe hijacked a car from a Putnam County man and drove to neighboring Morgan County where they later stole a pickup truck from a business and subsequently drove crossed from Georgia into Tennessee.

The slayings of the state corrections guards led to a nationwide manhunt.

Dubose and Rowe later surrendered to a private resident in Rutherford County, who happened to be in the yard of his residence when the escapees walked out of a nearby cow pasture. Their surrender followed a home invasion several miles away, where the escapees stole a car and later wrecked while Dubose was shooting at deputies in a chase along an interstate highway. Deputies reportedly never returned fire on the suspects because the highway was heavily congested with motorists at the time.