MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Convicted cop killer Marco Antonio Perez will go on trial again, but this time, the stakes are decidedly smaller than the last time he was in a Mobile County courtroom.
A jury found Perez, now 27, guilty of capital murder in 2024 and then sentenced him to death for the 2019 fatal shooting of Mobile police officer Sean Tuder. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this year upheld the conviction.
Mobile County Circuit Judge Ben Brooks on Monday conducted a hearing, with Perez appearing virtually from an Alabama state prison, on a receiving-stolen-property charge included in the indictment but not presented to the jury. That relates to a white Honda Accord that had been reported stolen. Prosecutors at the murder trial introduced surveillance video showing Perez behind the wheel at a McDonald’s drive-through line…