A superior court judge this afternoon delayed setting a trial date for Darnell E. Lemons II after his attorney said he planned to file a motion to dismiss the case or send it back to a Pinal County grand jury.

Lemons, 40, appeared in court this afternoon on his drive-by shooting case. He is accused of shooting through his own windshield in April at another driver on State Route 347. Lemons is free on a $35,000 surety bond he posted in May.

Even with nine bullet holes in his windshield, Lemons’s defense is gambling that a judge or grand jury may find the state’s case too weak to stand trial.

Lemons briefly considered a plea bargain before his attorneys asked for more time to gather Maricopa police body-camera footage they say is central to his defense. Today, his publ

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