DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — Mac Bailey Marquette, the former Decatur Police Officer charged with murder in the on-duty shooting death of Stephen Perkins, is scheduled to go on trial in November, but after a motion made by the Morgan County District Attorney on Friday that trial may be pushed back.
According to court records, Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson filed a motion Friday asking Judge Charles Elliot to continue the trial.
Anderson said in the filing that the date needed to be pushed back due to several capital murder trials scheduled for later this year causing him and Chief Assistant District Attorney Garrick Vickery to be tied up.
Anderson and Vickery are scheduled to prosecute the capital murder trial against Frederic Rogers beginning on August 14. Rogers is charged with six counts of capital murder for a 2020 septuple homicide in which the State will seek the death penalty.
Along with that trial, Anderson and Vikcery are scheduled to prosecute another capital murder trial against Logan Delp, that trial is set to begin on October 16. Delp is charged with capital murder alongside five others in the 2020 shooting death of a Hartselle man.
The motion said that Anderson discussed pushing back the trial with Marquette’s attorneys who said they agreed that they needed more time before trial.
Now, the decision of whether or not the trial will happen as scheduled falls on Judge Elliot.
Marquette, 23, of Hartselle was charged with Perkins murder in January after an on-duty shooting in September 2023.
