DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — The Alabama Attorney General’s Office, for the second time, requested an extension for filing its reply to self-defense claims submitted by Mac Marquette to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
The response was due by June 24, but on Friday, the Attorney General’s Office asked for a three-week extension, citing a busy workload and a new attorney on the case. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals instead gave them two additional weeks to submit the reply.
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Marquette, a former Decatur Police Department officer, is charged with the Sept. 29, 2023, shooting death of Stephen Perkins during a botched repossession attempt. Marquette was indicted for murder in early 2024, and his murder trial is currently set for September.
But his attorneys have argued he acted in self-defense that night and the case should be dismissed on those grounds. A hearing on that request was held in February, and the trial court ruled Marquette did not prove Perkins’ shooting death was justified…