A jury is weighing Marcus Floyd's claims that amnesia made him unfit for trial back in 2015 for CPD officer Thomas Wortham IV's shooting death.
CHICAGO -- The family of murdered Chicago Police Officer Thomas Wortham IV was in court for a second day, during another painful trial.
A jury will decide if Floyd was fit or unfit when he was on trial in 2015. In 2010, Wortham was shot and killed as four men tried to steal his motorcycle in front of his childhood home. Wortham's father, a retired officer, shot at the suspects. Floyd was injured and Floyd's cousin died. Tuesday prosecutors argued that Floyd was found to be mentally and psychologically sound to stand trial. But Floyd's attorneys told jurors that he has no memory of the 2010 murder and can't assist in his own defense.
An appellate court recently ruled his originally fitness trial in 2015 was flawed, and ordered a new fitness trial even though he was already convicted and sentenced.