CHICAGO — After a four-day trial centered largely on Marcus Floyd’s claims that he could not remember the night Officer Thomas Wortham was killed, a Cook County jury found Thursday that he was, in fact, fit to stand trial for the slaying in 2015.
The jury’s decision means the case will go back to the appellate court, where the higher court judges can consider any claims of error at this week’s fitness trial or other matters Floyd’s attorneys have raised in their appeal of his murder conviction.
Coming to court and reliving Wortham’s killing more than a decade after his death was immensely stressful, his family told reporters after the verdict.
