Christopher Schurr, a former Grand Rapids police officer, will not be retried in Patrick Lyoya's April 4, 2022, killing. A deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial.

In civil cases, the plaintiff only needs to prove their version of events is more likely than the defendant's, a term referred to as the preponderance of evidence.

As a retired Detroit Police Department investigator with over four decades of experience investigating violent crime, and as someone who once stood trial for second-degree murder after acting to ...