Prosecutors, defense lawyers offer starkly different interpretations of Mobile officer’s killing

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A packed courtroom on Tuesday watched lawyers for the prosecution and defense frame the evidence they spent a week and a half presenting in the capital murder trial of accused Mobile cop killer Marco Antonio Perez.

Prosecutors depict Marco Perez as cold-blooded killer; defense says he feared for his life) - A packed courtroom on Tuesday watched lawyers for the prosecution and defense frame the evidence they spent a week and a half presenting in theThe closing arguments drew the attendance of Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch, Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood and Lawrence Battiste, who was police chief at the time.

Rich said those two additional shots remove any possibility this was self-defense, as the defense argues.Defense attorney Dennis Knizley countered that his client had no idea who Perez was. Knizley played surveillance footage showing Tuder – wearing blue jeans and a hooded jacket – get out of his station wagon, gun in hand, and grab Perez.The shooting occurred off camera, but Knizley argued that Perez had to shoot more than once.

Defense attorney Ashley Cameron recounted evidence that Tuder was not wearing his uniform, driving is patrol car or wearing his police body camera. She also reminded jurors that Tuder did not have weekend shifts.“Once a cop, always a cop,” she said, pointing to the “protect and serve” oath that all law enforcement officers take.Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Madison Davis laid out a timeline that began with Perez getting placed on state probation on Nov.

 

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