COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) – A county prosecutor says a judge shouldn't force him to make a quick decision on whether to seek the death penalty against the man charged with killing four people in a southern Indiana home last year.

A defense lawyer for 56-year-old Samuel Sallee has asked a Bartholomew County judge to set a prompt deadline for the prosecutor so that the trial could start as scheduled in June.

The Republic reports defense attorney David Nowak says he and his co-counsel aren't certified for death penalty trials so new attorneys would need to be appointed if Prosecutor Bill Nash decides to seek that punishment.

Sallee faces four counts of murder in the May 2013 deaths of a woman and three men in Waynesville, a small community outside Columbus.