ORLANDO, Fla. — The penalty phase of Markeith Loyd’s murder trial — at which the jury that convicted him is to recommend whether he should face execution or life in prison for killing Orlando police Lt. Debra Clayton — was unexpectedly delayed until December during a hearing Friday.
The trial’s next phase, which was supposed to start Saturday, instead will begin Dec. 6 at the Orange County Courthouse.
The delay resulted from a ruling by Circuit Judge Leticia Marques that Loyd will be allowed to testify about a beating he suffered from the officers who arrested him in January 2017 outside an abandoned house in Carver Shores.
