MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — Attorneys for former Decatur Police Officer Mac Marquette have filed a response to the state in his third attempt to get his murder charge thrown out.
Marquette is arguing he acted in self-defense the night he killed Stephen Perkins during a botched repossesion of Perkins’s truck.
Two lower courts, the Morgan County Circuit Court and the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, have already rejected the self-defense claim. Those courts have said a jury should decide if Marquette’s killing of Perkins was justified…