Marlon Miller returned to a Cook County courtroom on Friday, accused of randomly attacking three women in the Loop this week at a time he was supposed to be confined to his home on electronic monitoring for randomly attacking four other women in the Loop.
The alleged attacks occurred just days after a judge refused to keep him in jail despite another judge’s warning that the 40-year-old had a “very violent history,” a prosecutorial request to keep Miller in jail, and intense public scrutiny of the county’s electronic monitoring failures following the CTA train fire attack that left a woman gravely injured.
Miller first appeared in CWBChicago reporting in 2018, when he broke a man’s jaw in 2 places during a random, unprovoked attack outside Block 37 in the Loop. He ultimately received mental health probation and a 180-day jail term for that case…