A judge on Thursday ruled that a Theodore man accused of murdering a police officer will be tried as an adult.
Mobile County Circuit Judge Ben Brooks denied “youthful offender” status for Marco Antonio Perez in 2019. But the judge said out of an “abundance of caution,” he was taking a fresh look at the issue since the Mobile County District Attorney’s OfficeAlabama’s youthful offender law offers a defendant who was younger than 21 at the time of an offense an opportunity to be exempt from the full force of the criminal justice system.
Prosecutors allege the Perez, 24, murdered Mobile police Officer Sean Tuder at the Peach Place Inn as the officer was trying to arrest him on a gun charge. Rich on Thursday reiterated the state’s intent to seek the death penalty.
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